Quick Snack lets you build React Native apps by talking to an LLM/AI Assistant. It’s built—quite hackily—on top of Expo Snack.
Quick Snack is in very early alpha. Try it out - you get 25 free queries.
Why?
Building user interfaces has been my biggest challenge—it takes too long, even for quick prototypes to test ideas. But that’s rapidly changing.
Tools like v0, Replit, Townie, and Claude Artifacts are making it easier to build apps at the speed of thought. Unfortunately, none of these tools support building native mobile apps.
I love the web, but it’s well known that mobile apps outperform it on every metric—with 90% of time spent using them versus the rest of the internet
What’s Next?
- I started working on this ~20 days ago during my time off, mainly to see how feasible it would be to get something like this going. I didn’t have a set plan, but it’s been fun, so I’ll keep building.
- If you enjoy using Quick Snack, consider buying more queries. $5 gets you 25 queries, which also motivates me to keep improving the tool.
- Got feature requests or bugs? Email hubristechltd@gmail.com. Paying users get higher priority!
Known Issues
- It’s currently kinda dumb—you sometimes need to send follow-up messages to get polished results.
- There might be errors due to OpenAI’s token-per-minute rate limits, as I’m still on Tier 1. However, the more we use this, the larger my quota will become. Because of these limits, it mostly uses gpt 4o-mini.
- Chats aren’t yet saved in the UI, so refreshing the page will cause all chats to disappear. However, the AI retains the full context of your conversation for each project, thanks to OpenAI’s Assistant API managing the conversation context
- The assistant doesn’t always handle peer dependencies well, but Snack has an easy solution with the “Add dependency” button to fix that.
- There’s a bug with uploading images, it doesn’t work when you try to upload the same file another time.
- The “Fix with AI” button isn’t functional yet, but you can copy and paste errors into the chat for solutions.
- Project downloads aren’t available yet. I am working on a seamless experience that will allow you to continue development elsewhere.
- Quick Snack retains up to 10 saved revisions of your projects, but currently, you can’t view or restore previous versions.