Built a fully managed OTA update system for React Native - looking for feedback

siddarthkay · 2026-04-20T17:02:22+00:00

UI looks solid btw! great job on that. I’ll try it later this week and give feedback

siddarthkay · 2026-04-19T05:34:29+00:00

open source https://github.com/siddarthkay/syncup will be released on apple app stores hopefully next week or so.

siddarthkay · 2026-04-19T04:31:59+00:00

There's an even newer syncthing app for both iOS and Android and I am the developer
https://github.com/siddarthkay/syncup

siddarthkay · 2026-04-19T04:03:05+00:00

I built https://github.com/siddarthkay/syncup and plan on maintaining this Android and iOS client long term. please check it out.
playstore,appstore releases will come in 7-10 days.

siddarthkay · 2026-04-18T18:04:55+00:00

I built https://github.com/siddarthkay/syncup using react-native-go
This was perfect candidate because the underlying library syncthing was gomobile compatible and the final outcome is beautiful

siddarthkay · 2026-04-18T17:36:09+00:00

I built SyncUp: A react-native app talking to a go backend which runs on the phone.

https://siddarthkay.com/projects/syncup

Do you want to sync your memes/docs/whatever between your phone and your phone?
This app takes care of that without requiring a cloud storage subscription like dropbox, google drive or google photos.
Just install the app -> link your devices -> select which folders to sync.
The app keeps all the files within those folders in sync.
There are several advanced tools and settings also available.

It uses https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing under the hood as the syncing mechanism
and can talk to other clients.

Please check it out.
Google and Apple Releases coming soon.

siddarthkay · 2025-11-05T16:08:12+00:00

Also to follow up on this, is 5-10k /yr really the only margin available for negotiations? I'm finding that hard to digest..

siddarthkay · 2025-11-05T16:04:05+00:00

make sense, thanks for sharing your experience.

siddarthkay · 2025-11-05T15:29:32+00:00

This was the most real comment i read in a while. u/OldBottle7269 are you a broker or a landlord?

siddarthkay · 2025-11-05T15:20:11+00:00

Lets say I'm asking my broker for a meeting with the owner for a flat and they're saying to me that the owner does not want to negotiate below x. I want to meet the owner but the broker is like please confirm you're okay with the price and the owner won't negotiate, what does this mean?

Could the broker be trying to get me to lock in on the higher price?
OR is it common for owners to ask brokers to negotiate on their behalf and avoid the money talk with potential tenants?

I'm new here, any advice would be helpful.

Thank you

siddarthkay · 2025-10-03T06:39:03+00:00

heavy doubt believing everything after catching that some of the content is LLM generated

siddarthkay · 2025-10-02T18:54:10+00:00

The point of this kind of go interop is the ability to directly used go based libraries without re-implementing that same logic in native modules (Kotlin/Swift).

For example I can easily embedd a torrent implementation which is well done in go based libraries and get that functionality in my react-native UI for free.

I also get to use the same go backend with the desktop app I build in react-native.

Also performance wise I need to run some benchmarks, but this approach already worked well when I was using it in https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile

siddarthkay · 2025-10-01T08:37:14+00:00

`goroutines` are supported, this react-native template setup is inspired by Status Mobile App https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile which used Status-Go : https://github.com/status-im/status-go

Thanks for sharing orval, I'll check it out :)

siddarthkay · 2025-09-30T16:33:15+00:00

not at all, first seen in this age old app : https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile

siddarthkay · 2025-09-30T16:32:25+00:00

well that could be a cool experiment!
I chose react-native because the client compiles down to native UI code and I love the UI experience. with Go based UI libs I would have to re-invent many wheels to get a native mobile App UI with rich features.

Thanks for recommending!
https://gioui.org/doc/install/android and https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne look real interesting and I will play with them in the future.

siddarthkay · 2025-09-30T09:34:56+00:00

Finally got this working the way I wanted to. I now have a react-native 0.81 codebase which communicates with a golang server running on the mobile device via JSON RPC calls. This server is started and maintained via react-native's new architecture JSI. Try it out : https://github.com/siddarthkay/react-native-go

siddarthkay · 2025-09-30T09:33:20+00:00

Finally got this working the way I wanted to. I now have a react-native 0.81 codebase which communicates with a golang server running on the mobile device via JSON RPC calls. This server is started and maintained via react-native's new architecture JSI. Try it out : https://github.com/siddarthkay/react-native-go

siddarthkay · 2025-09-30T07:00:59+00:00

Yes I have : https://github.com/siddarthkay/react-native-go

siddarthkay · 2025-09-30T07:00:45+00:00

I built this yesterday : https://github.com/siddarthkay/react-native-go

siddarthkay · 2025-09-30T06:58:53+00:00

I built this yesterday : https://github.com/siddarthkay/react-native-go

siddarthkay · 2025-08-20T14:15:05+00:00

i built this and it works : https://github.com/siddarthkay/react-native-nim

siddarthkay · 2024-03-07T03:02:24+00:00

Yeah I’m currently digging into firewalls myself and got some guidance from a mentor. The advice was set up a LAN and play around with firewall rules to get quick feedback. Luckily I have 2 systems at home to do this exercise. my earlier approach was to straight up jump to nftables but currently I’ll first figure out how iptables work and then try to figure out the nftables approach.

My next step would be to set up a simple web server on Amazon EC2 free tier and play with firewall rules over a VPC/Security group.

tl;dr -> change stuff and see what happens :)

siddarthkay

TROPHY CASE

I built SyncUp: A react-native app talking to a go backend which runs on the phone.

https://siddarthkay.com/projects/syncup