I am really excited to announce that, after approx $2,000 of Replit credits and 300 hours of vibe coding with Agent, my app is ready
And the Replit community get to see this world premiere of something never done before:
A scaffolding app for native iOS/Android, plus web and PWA - all from Replit Agent
I’ve created a completely new workflow that provides a production-ready app foundation, built for rapid prototyping and MVP development using Replit AI Agent.
Not just for web or PWA. But cross-platform! For native iOS and Android too. And all from a single codebase, fully integrated with Supabase for auth, DB and file storage and with a tonne of other well thought out components to create a solid foundation for remixing into new apps.
I’d love to answer any questions on how it works. But the 2 most important words that made all this happen, to get your technical creative juices flowing:
→ Capacitor and Appflow
Expo and Replit AI Assistant are no where to be seen - banished!! This is pure 100% Agent.
@realfunnyeric, The code is in a private repo right now, as I have initially made it commercial. However, as we’ve discussed previously, I am 99.734% sure I will open source it (and charge for the support studio).
I am totally convinced that selling s/w is game over in the next 2-3 years - there is no moat left. And that the future is open source, and then sell human support.
But free s/w goes against everything I’ve done in s/w over several decades. So bringing myself to actually click that Change to public button is a real struggle. I’ve had sleepless nights over this, as I know once I do it there is no going back
Have you ever been involved in open source s/w? I’d love some other perspectives.
Thanks @CraigRT The style is just the base one used in the scaffold.
I’ve already been helping some early clients, and as you can see in the screenshots (2 mobile apps and 3 web apps), once the scaffold is installed, you can chat to the agent and change the UI just like you would with any other web app.
Hi @Gipity-Steve this is great. Does this work with converting an existing mobile app from an old Replit project (started late last year or maybe early this year) to native iOS/Android apps? I’ve struggled to get Expo.dev to work (mostly because I’m not very good but also I haven’t invested enough hours into resolving all the errors I come up against).
Certainly not an official one with Appflow assistance to be clear. Off my own bat. But works a dream.
Would it be OK do you reckon to promote a live video session (free) to this community? I think there’s a lot of people who’d like to see how it’s done.
Yeah sadly the Expo workflow is not fit for purpose. Partly because it only works with assistant not agent. But I’ve created something new using an alternative process that involves Ionic Appflow.
It is a full scaffold and I wanted to make it a complete “everything” you need for a cross platform app, not just the ios/android bit. So it fully integrates with supabase for auth, db and file storage. It also covers off a lot of niggly thing with security and mobile device safe areas and loads of other stuff - my vision is to help people go beyond fun vibe coded apps that look pretty but fall apart once you give them to real users.
Because of all this, it means it is something you’d use from scratch - you simply start a new replit app from a Github repo.
It will be open source in a few days and I am looking to do a live demo session via Zoom for anyone to see how it works, possibly next week.
Hi @kody-replit Would it be OK to promote a live video session (free) to this community?
I think there’s a lot of people in here who’d like to see how my new open source scaffolding app works, which when remixed as a new Replit app will let anyone build a native ios/android app through the Agent tool.
Thanks for the extra info @Gipity-Steve Expo is a little crappy, but I also have an Apple and Android Developer Accounts that my team used to use that I could possible figure out.
That’s amazing work! A true game-changer for cross-platform dev. At Dev Story, we specialize in mobile app development services in Perth, so seeing this kind of innovation with Capacitor + Appflow is inspiring. Excited to see how your scaffold empowers faster MVP launches!
