Launch HN: A0.dev (YC W25) – React Native App Generator • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by blacksoil » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 2:03 AM UTC

Wow this is very easy to use. I've been using Github Co-Pilot for a while to do web dev, this is way way way more convenient :)

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

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Post by ripped_britches » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 2:06 AM UTC

Please make one for flutter, tnx

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

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Post by ripped_britches » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 2:13 AM UTC

gardenhedge wrote: post #40

Is there anything stopping you, a0, from just seeing the best apps users make and then taking that idea and launching it yourself?

Only the massive amount of effort it takes to start a company

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

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Post by w-ll » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 2:23 AM UTC

ripped_britches wrote: post #62

Please make one for flutter, tnx

I've been out the mobile work for a while, but looking for a cross platform eco, ive spent time in a lot of stuff, from react, to unity, xmarian, and uno, all these with a c# backend. But once I found dart/flutter it was a game changer. I stil like my JS/TS, I still love c#, dart is interesting, but their cross platform workflow is imho the best.

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

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Post by Mickymi2 » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 2:38 AM UTC

I tried it, it works well in the beginning, but ended with bug when I try to add more functions, maybe iterate some more to make it stable? I'll say A0 has great potential, if cursor or bolt can be popular, why can't A0?

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

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Post by misiti3780 » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 2:56 AM UTC

These tools are cool but can someone explain what is the technological edge of windsurf vs cursor, vs this product, vs V0 varcel. Are they fine tuning LLMs or are they just advanced prompting wrapped around the foundational models?

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

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Post by nsonha » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 3:19 AM UTC

Anything like this but for cordova?

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

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Post by erickerr » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 5:11 AM UTC

Opening this on desktop.. I'm not reading any of this.

Glancing in more I see react-native mentioned, and expo+expo go mentioned, but like... it's been proven time and time again that Hacker News isn't your ideal feedback loop (ie: Dropbox, AirBNB).

Why make 4 paragraphs of text when you could just say:

- We obliterated X problem: (link)

- We demonstrate why that problem is significant here: (public link or private deck)

- We are growing at X->(timeframe or whatever impressive metric)

Reach out if interested. Thanks. [contact@info.com]

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

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Post by jmpavlec » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 5:45 AM UTC

cchance wrote: post #58

I did it from the webpage, got something cool tried to add a card, and it had me signup, did google, but then my project was gone! That sucks ... losing the project during signup process is not nice UX hope you can fix that.

I had the same experience, hitting back a couple times and refreshing the page allowed me to continue... But I imagine this would be a steep dropoff in engagement if you aren't taken back to the same page.

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

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Post by atymic » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 5:58 AM UTC

This looks good! Unfortunately I only made it a few prompts before it introduced an issue that it couldn't fix (back button not working). Kinda broke the whole process, what model does this use on the backend? Even after 5+ tries it couldn't fix the bug.