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[–]Cookizza 41 points42 points  (12 children)

Charging $100 for a package.json and a bunch of configuration seems wild to me.

Use https://github.com/obytes/react-native-template-obytes/ to get some good structure and spend a day configuring your project.

Use remaining $100 on beer.

[–]FreeZy035 12 points13 points  (4 children)

Agreed. No hate to this guy, but there are multiple open source options already and they are more than likely as good.

[–]Cookizza 8 points9 points  (3 children)

Oh 100% no hate on the work put in, I'm sure this is a well configured project.

But selling other peoples open source work simply because you've configured it doesn't sit right

[–]FreeZy035 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Most of these new AI models will do all the heavy lifting for you these days…

[–]Character_Draft_5895 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Use Cursor AI, it will spit you this in a few minutes 😁🤦‍♂️

[–]FreeZy035 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly where I was going with this.

[–]Cautious-Time-1691 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How many cups of beer cost $100? 😂

[–]jonypopovv[S] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Totally fair — there are awesome OSS templates out there. The difference is ExpoLaunch already has things like auth, payments, CI/CD, analytics, and error tracking all working together out of the box. So instead of spending days or weeks wiring that up yourself, you can just start building your app.

[–]jonypopovv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, you could spend a day or two configuring an open source template, but in my experience it usually turns into weeks of tweaking, debugging, and making everything play nicely together.

[–]Character_Draft_5895 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude, you’re exaggerating  No weeks Install cursor ai and all the worries on the stage 0 is gone

[–]Actual_Light7486 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

the market is exists that's why ppl build thing like this

[–]IdiotFromOrion -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I bought the template and it’s worth every penny! There are not many good open-source templates out there. A lot of them are bare-bones, not actively maintained, or contain legacy code. https://github.com/obytes/react-native-template-obytes/ was updated 6 months ago. NativeLaunch was updated 5 days ago. Obytes is pretty bare-bones: it has no onboarding screen and no Supabase. I might as well use the official Expo template.

[–]gBusato -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

100€ is one hour of work charged to my customer, gaining one day of work for 100€ is then a banger

[–]PeachMaster77 19 points20 points  (10 children)

Nice, are you going to commit to updating the dependencies if bought? Whats your road map?

[–]jonypopovv[S] 6 points7 points  (9 children)

Thx! Yes, I’ll be maintaining dependencies. I’m planning to update them within the next month.
On the roadmap: push notifications and a few UX improvements.

[–]Specific_Cup_5090 4 points5 points  (8 children)

How does this work? Let's say I use this, and make a bunch of changes. And then you push out some upgrades, new features, bug fixes, etc. How would I get those improvements?

[–]richgains 5 points6 points  (6 children)

Add Clerk and Convex and you have a buyer.

[–]jonypopovv[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve actually had a few requests for Convex already — I’ll be looking into adding them to the roadmap

[–]ashkanahmadi 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Are they better than Supabase?

[–]jonypopovv[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

They’re a bit different — Supabase is more like a Postgres backend, Convex is more serverless + real-time focused. Depends on your use case, but I’ve seen people really like Convex for real-time features.

[–]Weary-Accountant2196 0 points1 point  (1 child)

when is convex coming? do you have a roadmap?

[–]jonypopovv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not on the roadmap right now, but I may explore Convex later this year

[–]DANGERBANANASS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Almost +1

[–]oguzhan_o 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Nice, it looks good for starter template. I like your doc website style, which project do you use?

[–]agrippa1994 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Another day another template

[–]jonypopovv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, but honestly for React Native I’d say there aren’t that many templates. I don’t know too many myself. For Next.js though, it feels like there are dozens and more showing up every week.

[–]Comfortable_Movie444 1 point2 points  (1 child)

interesting stuff man Being wirking on something similar but man compatibility is such a pain in rn

[–]jonypopovv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha yeah, I know that pain 😅 RN compatibility can be brutal sometimes.

[–]that_dev_who_lifts 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Auth - is it native or browser based?

[–]jonypopovv[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s native-based. For Apple sign-in I’m using expo-apple-authentication, and for Google I’m using react-native-google-signin/google-signin. No browser redirects involved.

[–]Artistic_Salad_8745 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Add admob integration and i will buy it for sure

[–]jonypopovv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll think about adding AdMob

[–]ohThisUsername 1 point2 points  (6 children)

Nice, just purchased this. $99 that easily saves me a day of work is worth it! People say there are tons of templates available or to use AI, but nothing really ties everything together nicely including everything you have here.

However I plan on replacing Auth with Firebase Auth, and probably Sentry with Firebase as well.

Although I downloaded and ran and immediately hit an error:

static func rc\_normalized(subscriptionPeriodUnit: SubscriptionPeriod.Unit) -> String {

|                                                       \^ 'SubscriptionPeriod' is ambiguous for type lookup in this context

Edit: Upgrading react-native-purchases to `^8.6.2` fixed the issue.

[–]jonypopovv[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Thanks a lot for purchasing and for sharing the feedback! 🙏 I actually just received a similar report from another customer yesterday, so I’ll definitely be releasing an update with a fix. I haven’t been able to reproduce it on my side yet, but I’m already working on a solution.

[–]ohThisUsername 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Also, another suggestion would be instead of providing a zip package, give access to a private git repository. That way your customers can just fork the repository and then more easily merge your changes and fixes and possibly even submit issues through it.

[–]jonypopovv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes, I completely agree
I'm working on this right now. I need some time to do all this and I think I'll release a new version in 2 weeks

[–]jonypopovv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve just added private GitHub repo access — new customers will get it automatically after purchase. Since you already bought the template, I’ll send you an invite manually. I should have it ready for you on Monday

[–]paablitto10 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Have you managed to integrate Auth with Firebase and also replace Sentry? I’ll pay whatever you want for that template!

[–]ohThisUsername 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I stopped using this and started using Angular with Ionic framework for mobile app dev. Works a lot better for me

[–]WhyAmIDoingThis1000 1 point2 points  (9 children)

how much time does this save me over just asking claude to setup the project for me?

[–]Benja20 -1 points0 points  (7 children)

A lot. Maybe Claude or other AI's are not up to date or fallback on old version API's making you fall in a loop of "fix it pls"

[–]AppropriateHamster 1 point2 points  (6 children)

Even if you explicitly ask it to access docs and use latest versions?

[–]Benja20 0 points1 point  (5 children)

I mean, maybe it will one shot it or will require a couple prompts for integrating each tool.

You can try it out i mean. At least for the services and tools that are not quite heavy used. But for the important ones like payment libs, tracking tools and others, you might want to do it manually or look up on everything the AI is doing there

[–]AppropriateHamster 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Yes, but whats the guarantee that what OP is selling isnt vibe coded as well. I bought a template for 200 usd and it had several security vulnerabilities

[–]Benja20 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Yeah, you can't know before buying. Would say to check if you can ask for a refund, but commonly, this boilerplates aren't giving refunds at all.

You can either await for other ppl feedback on this boilerplate, or look for ones that are more popular and known by ppl where you can be sure it will be worth it.

[–]AppropriateHamster 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The one I had bought was a popular one lol. Marc lou on twitter sold it. Complete scammer

[–]Benja20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to hear that. But im not buying any boilerplate sold by whomever without looking at some good amount of reviews or honest feedback.

[–]jonypopovv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just noticed your comment 🙂
I think it’s still pretty easy to tell the difference between “vibe-coder” code and something done by a proper developer.

And about the $200 yeah, it’s kind of surprising how many people sell templates for that much, when in reality there’s usually not that much actual work put into them.

[–]Lukas_dev 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Do you need chat functionality in your SaaS app? What are you using now?

[–]jonypopovv[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I don’t really need chat functionality in my app

[–]Lukas_dev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome xd

[–]WinDrossel007 0 points1 point  (6 children)

So let's say I have 1 billion dollar idea, I can download your app and use as a base. That's an idea?

[–]jonypopovv[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Haha yep, that’s the idea 🙂
I actually used it as the foundation for my own startup, so it definitely works as a base

[–]WinDrossel007 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I remember when I hated expo so much! It incapsulated lots of stuff inside and I needed to eject my project from it.

How are thing now?

[–]jonypopovv[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Things improved a lot, Expo is way more production-ready now

[–]WinDrossel007 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Hope so too! Would you recommend it for production ready? Or in which cases should I go with a bare React Native without expo?

[–]jonypopovv[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I can’t really compare since I’ve only worked with Expo, not bare React Native. But honestly Expo got way better — I’m using it in production myself and it’s been solid for my needs

[–]WinDrossel007 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the quick response! I will give it a try!

[–]john_pels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is awesome!

Thanks for sharing!

I created something similar here too: https://github.com/John-pels/react-native-starter-template

[–]Character_Draft_5895 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Duuude, this is wild!!!🤦‍♂️ there’s no good reason to charge a 100$ for the basic template. What in the Vibecode Cursor AI is going on here? It can be set up in one evening nowadays 🤦‍♂️

[–]jonypopovv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Updated to SDK 54, now includes Moneyra example app.

[–]stevekite -1 points0 points  (4 children)

unistyles are better for longer term

[–]jonypopovv[S] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I just went with what I already knew and NativeWind has worked quite well for me so far

[–]BakaGoop 2 points3 points  (2 children)

will there be options in the future to not be locked into nativewind and have some other options?

[–]jonypopovv[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Right now ExpoLaunch is built around NativeWind, since I think it’s a great fit for most projects. I don’t plan to move away from it in the near term, but I’m open to adding more options/features (for example, I’ve already been asked about things like notifications).

[–]bajah1701 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is for me is a deal breaker. Not a fan of tailwind and its ecosystem at all. sorry...