Wow, this is great. Would you mind if I reached out over email?
Thanks! Sure, feel free to email us: contact at our domain name.
Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone
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Re: Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone
#122With vibe coding, I generally find that it will get me 80-90% of the way to where I want to be, but I generally end up having to do some work too. How does that work here? Is there any way to later edit the app on my mac if I need to? Similarly, once my app is "done" for some definition of done, can I compile it into a native app rather than an interpreted one?
Yeah that’s been my experience too. You can edit the Swift code directly in bitrig, though editing code on a phone is not the best experience. We’ve had a lot of requests for a Mac app. Stay tuned ;) You can get a compiled build of your app from bitrig: go to Distribute App which will build your app on our server and then upload it to TestFlight for you (this requires a paid Apple Developer Account). This lets you in…
For what it's worth, I don't need a Mac app for this, just to be able to edit the app I've (mostly) built with the tools I already have. I like the idea of being able to do the 90% on the phone, and iterate on it etc, but for the remaining part I'd prefer to use my existing tools.
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#123This is great work. I've already got my proof of concept 75% of the way in hours. But I think I've hit a rate limit. Do you plan on showing something in-app that indicates how many requests you have left?
I'm not really sure if I've hit a limit or if something else is going on.
Re: Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone
#124I think it’s a question of time until the mobile OS do this natively as a part of responding to user request. Like those Siri app snippets (scores, maps, stocks …), but with whatever adhoc UI that’s needed to best present the result (or allow the user to further interact). “What to do in Zagreb with a family?” will build a personalized map & content app tailored to everything the AI knows about your preferences. AI s…
Can you imagine that question being asked thousands of times per second around the globe vs a well built app? Also, how many years do you think it will take for AI to reach that level of creating a bugless app that won't need a real developer to look at not even a single time? Will users stay around for hours for the app to be built and deployed after they ask their question?
> Can you imagine that question being asked thousands of times per second around the globe vs a well built app?
Of course - so the AI service can cache these, detect automatically most frequent use cases, and pre-build higher quality apps or building blocks.
What hundreds of thousands of people are doing manually now.
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#125Doesn’t work at all for me. Entered my my prompt… It did a bunch of stuff - apparently initially focused on making me an app icon which I don’t really care about. I moved away from the app, went back and everything had gone and my prompt was just sitting there by itself. I said “please proceed” and it opened a new chat, did the same thing. It was doing stuff, I moved to something else, went back, everything vanished.…
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your secret is safe, hah! It's almost like you need an intermediate 'cheap/dumb' AI as a proxy to flesh everything out ahead of sending it off to be coded ... something that crisps up all the requirement and ultimately crafts a more cost-effective and likely all-around-better prompt. Even being semi-technical, I'm always surprised how much the details matter when describing something to AI (e.g., the fireworks should…
There's a lot I want to do to improve the prompting experience. As I mentioned in the original post, it's very simple right now. There's a lot of inspiration we could (and probably will) draw from other products (e.g. Cline's Plan vs Act modes) to build what you're describing. It can also be really fun and productive to just rapidly iterate on what the AI gives back, without having to take the time to describe it all…
Version 1.0 is never perfect. I’m enjoying the app so far. My suggestion is to offer an Ai Prompt Builder as one of the starter apps. Just a walkthrough of the basics of what the user hopes to be built. I sent an email with my version of the prompt builder. I have made a few revisions to make it more concise and focused.
I have several ideas that I would be happy to send over in an email.
Re: Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone
#127I have built 4 apps with it. I love it.
Re: Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone
#128Bitrig is so cool and love that it makes it look like Apple apps so the UI can never look shit. Don’t think I’ve ever upgraded to the pro version of an app this quickly!
I noticed that all the swift code it writes is in a single file - as opposed to making it more modular. that way it’ll be easier to read the code/make edits. Is this in the works or am I understanding this incorrectly (I don’t have any swift experience)?