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Design + Code in one 💻 🎨 🏳️‍🌈 Building brandtnew apps with React Native, Expo, and Supabase. Built & sold WeBurn 💪 Now working on @roamwise.app
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Can someone from the @expo.dev team release a short guide on how to properly manage .env variables for all things @sentry.io, @revenuecat.com, etc? With examples on 1 – How to make things run locally in DEV 2 – How to make builds work for PROD This "guide" 👇 is ... 😵‍💫 docs.expo.dev/eas/environm...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Remember when WeBurn was headlining the App Store? Yeah, I built that — with React Native, from scratch, as a solo founder 🚀 Featured. Scaled. Sold. Time to do it again.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

If your React Native / @expo.dev builds suddenly started failing today, you’re probably on Xcode 16.3. It’s a known issue — downgrading to Xcode 16.2 is the current workaround. Details + steps here: github.com/facebook/rea...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Built a fun lil' photo app with @expo.dev and gave it some AI editing powers thanks to Gemini 2.0 Flash. Using expo-router + API routes, Galeria & Zeego by @rojo.bsky.social, and the smooth @swmansion.com react-native-reanimated. Stoked to introduce some of the new Expo server stuff next 🚀

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

In 2019, I got invited to Apple’s App Store Developer Session for Chew, my fasting app — and my fitness app WeBurn showed up in their “Apps We Love” slide. Both built with React Native. Still one of my favorite dev moments ✨

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

My first post here. Let me introduce the Make It Animated project I’ve recently launched This is a collection of real-world mobile app animations, built for React Native - Only real-world animations - Search by app name - Scan QR code and test animation on your device -> www.makeitanimated.dev

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The app was called Chew, made a few hundred € MRR, but stalled then. Competition was too strong & I had no clue about marketing.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Such a relief 😮‍💨 Spent most of the afternoon wondering why my @drizzle.team liveQuery wasn’t updating the UI. Turns out I missed this lil’ setting: enableChangeListener: true @expo.dev-sqlite + drizzle = working like a charm now! 💕

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Just found this gem in my photos: An intermittent fasting app I designed and developed with React Native in 2019 😊

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

React Native turns 10 today 🎉 Exactly 10 yrs ago I first tried it at my startup GymEntry (gym passes across Germany). Wild how far dev experience has come—especially thanks to Reanimated. Excited for what’s next!

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

What’s the go-to solution to save huge amounts of data locally with @expo.dev? WatermelonDB? TinyBase? Pure Expo SQLite? AsyncStorage/MMKV just aren’t cutting it for my use case. Would love recommendations!

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Vibecoded the @revenuecat.com integration and corrected my Agent where needed. Now I’m just waiting on App Store Connect data to appear in RC—it’s been stuck in “Ready to Submit” for a few hours. Fingers crossed!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Spent the weekend building the onboarding paywall for @roamwise.app with @expo.dev. It showcases geo-photo insights, current/upcoming features, and social proof. I might be leaving money on the table—but A/B testing will fix that!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Applying to React Native roles at big-name companies—just so I can say ‘they passed, I shipped something better’ later 🛳️✨

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah! Just got the @roamwise.app running on my iPhone for the first time—feels amazing! 🥳 Big thanks to @expo.dev for making it so straightforward!

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

If your nativewind absolute inset-0 components stop rendering after switching back to the old React Native architecture, here’s the fix: Use absolute top-0 right-0 bottom-0 left-0 instead. 🔧 Hope this saves you some debugging time!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments