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Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16)

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Re: Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16)

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Hi! I worked on this and am happy to answer any questions about it :)

congrats on the launch! this is really cool

also reminds me a bit of shadertoy https://www.shadertoy.com

hopefully this will help the react native community grow even faster :)

Re: Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16)

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Hi! I worked on this and am happy to answer any questions about it :)

congrats on the launch! this is really cool also reminds me a bit of shadertoy https://www.shadertoy.com hopefully this will help the react native community grow even faster :)

Thanks! I really like how shadertoy show previews of each shader. Maybe that's something we could add eventually.

Also - you can use OpenGL with this: https://sketch.expo.io/rJiYksBse

Re: Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16)

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Hi! I worked on this and am happy to answer any questions about it :)

Looks great!

One suggestion, I didn't notice the first time I visited the page that the modal window prompting to open the app was a modal, I thought that it required an app download. It didn't even occur to me to click somewhere else on the page and so I just closed the tab. It wasn't until I read the article that I realized you could use it on a desktop.

Re: Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16)

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Hi! I worked on this and am happy to answer any questions about it :)

Looks great! One suggestion, I didn't notice the first time I visited the page that the modal window prompting to open the app was a modal, I thought that it required an app download. It didn't even occur to me to click somewhere else on the page and so I just closed the tab. It wasn't until I read the article that I realized you could use it on a desktop.

Ah interesting point. Maybe we could make the overlay slightly more transparent?

Re: Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16)

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I imagine an integration with Appetize[1] would be very useful, as well as an opening for a possible revenue stream. Being able to build an RN app and then run it right in the browser removes another barrier for sharing RN code easily.

[1] https://appetize.io/

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