Smol Developer
AI
code generation
SHOW HN2023
45points
6comments
#1,140of 3,109 in 2023
Top 37%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
3 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Design: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Debugger feature seen as especially useful
From 2 comments
FYI the video/image doesn't appear to work on github but I found the link in the raw file: https://youtu.be/UCo7YeTy-aE The video cleared up a lot of questions for me and helped…
kiwicopple on HNyea just fixed! yea Akshat from Modal also called out the debugger as the actually useful thing i originally thought of it as a scaffolding tool. instead of making and…
swyx on HN
Name create-anything-app is a good fit
From 1 comment
"create-anything-app" is a great name, gets the concept across it would be neat for to existing devtools to extend/wrap this. for example, supabase could ask "what are you…
kiwicopple on HN
Objections
Generation is slow
From 1 comment
yea just fixed! yea Akshat from Modal also called out the debugger as the actually useful thing i originally thought of it as a scaffolding tool. instead of making and…
swyx on HN
Video playback speed seemed unnatural
From 1 comment
is the example video sped up, or do you really just talk that fast? no disrespect but its off putting to me
2h on HN
Requests
Wrap existing devtools such as Supabase or Svelte with scaffolding
From 1 comment
"create-anything-app" is a great name, gets the concept across it would be neat for to existing devtools to extend/wrap this. for example, supabase could ask "what are you…
kiwicopple on HN
Questions
Is it useful for existing codebases or only new products?
From 1 comment
FYI the video/image doesn't appear to work on github but I found the link in the raw file: https://youtu.be/UCo7YeTy-aE The video cleared up a lot of questions for me and helped…
kiwicopple on HN
Alternatives named
create-react-app
From 1 comment
yea just fixed! yea Akshat from Modal also called out the debugger as the actually useful thing i originally thought of it as a scaffolding tool. instead of making and…
swyx on HN
create-supabase-app
From 1 comment
yea just fixed! yea Akshat from Modal also called out the debugger as the actually useful thing i originally thought of it as a scaffolding tool. instead of making and…
swyx on HN