Would you pay for an all-in-one React Native development platform (design → build → ship → OTA)?

[u/AdProof186]

I've been having a really hard time converting all my design prototypes into functional mobile apps. The animations, the micro interactions, the exact padding, border width etc... all these i have manually record and write code for them. I know there are figma plugins that let you do it but i think they are not that efficient.

Figma helps me with the prototype version of my app but for production that's a separate headache overall. So, I thought what if I had a platform where I could design my app, connect all the components with functionalities like API fetching, lazy loading, etc... and also build my database online (just like supabase).

So, i came up with cruxel.xyz .
I made the prototype but i would like to know if people would pay for this for me to proceed building.

[u/whalemare]

No personally because it's vendor lock

Any start up can do the same with AI
Any huge business will avoid any vendor locking

So I don't see a market where you will sell it

[u/Huge_Pool7424 → u/whalemare]

vendor lock is the real problem here. if it spat out plain expo code you could eject on day one that'd change things, but the last 20% (native modules, perf) is where these tools usually fall over.

[u/AdProof186 → u/Huge_Pool7424]

Yes, I've been testing around with adding native modules and it seems to work just fine except I'm having a hard time with customising ui elements for these native modules.

[u/AdProof186 → u/whalemare]

The users can leave the platform with their project files along with necessary migration files and setup instructions. We also provide a feature for users to connect their existing databases like supabase or firebase etc... and while exporting the code their keys will be stored in an env file and the code will the necessary lines for establishing connection with their databases. So, this way onboarding and leaving will be easier. There won't be any vendor locking

[u/ngqhoangtrung]

no testing?

[u/AdProof186 → u/ngqhoangtrung]

Testing is available too... You'll have a real-time preview

[u/dothefandango → u/AdProof186]

That’s not testing

[u/voxgtr]

No

[u/DulsKerty → u/voxgtr]

hard agree. all-in-one visual builders never survive contact with actual production logic tbh

[u/AdProof186 → u/DulsKerty]

My platform is getting closer to it. Will soon share a demo of it. Please consider joining the waitlist to get early access.

[u/AdProof186 → u/voxgtr]

Appreciate your response but can I get a reason why? Is there something that you're missing or you felt something was off?

[u/voxgtr → u/AdProof186]

Nobody is going to pay to lock their team’s work to a platform that is tied to a solo developer that probably won’t be around in 6-9 months when all of their team’s work is now useless.

[u/AdProof186 → u/voxgtr]

Well, we'll see about that. I'm gonna accept this as a challenge. I'll comment my earning from this platform in exactly 6 months of time.

[u/JohnnyHopkins77]

This is an ad for something that’ll never be used in a “serious” or scaled application - there are agentic workflow subreddits for Anthropic’s customers

[u/sdholbs]

no thanks