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Launch HN: A0.dev (YC W25) – React Native App Generator

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Post by ayomide321 »

martypitt wrote: post #2

Congrats on shipping. I'm curious how commodotized the underlying LLM's are for generating this type of code? (And thereby, how big the moat is for companies like vercel/bolt surrounding v0 et al). What models are you using to power the code editor? Did it require much customization? Is it likely that enterprises would be able to eventually bring their own LLM's, or does the training make that prohibitive?

It takes quite a bit of configuration to add a new LLM, because of this I don’t believe its in our roadmap

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Post by rushingcreek »

This is an awesome demo and I hope you succeed.

I've dabbled in building a tool of this type and something I've learned is that making single-task demo apps (like chess or snake game) is much faster and simpler than making production-grade apps that could make a real business. In fact, the process of making these demo apps production ready (polishing the UI, adding features, etc.) would usually result in the user giving up. In our implementation, it was much trickier for the system to understand the nuances of polishing than getting the broad strokes of the initial demo. I'd love to know if you've ran into this and what your thoughts are on getting around it.

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Post by preaching5271 »

How is this different from just using Cursor on my react-native codebase? Cursor in agent mode means: no copy paste, implements features and fixes errors iteratively, knows my codebase and adheres to existing patterns. If I need changes, I just ask Cursor and preview live app changes locally

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Post by johnisgood »

langitbiru wrote: post #15
sethburster wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what would the stop button do?

Generating code takes some time. Sometimes when we look at the generated code half way, we know that it's not what we want. Better to stop and edit the prompt.

I just tried this one out, the generated code is blurred out as it is generating, which I think is not desirable.
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