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Chris Messina

Shoutem v5 - Create React Native, cross-platform mobile apps easily

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A platform to build, publish, and manage native apps with ease. Build beautiful, cross-platform native apps with Shoutem and React Native in no time

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Chris Messina
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Hunter
Launching soon!
This looks dope. I'm kind of like... in disbelief that this level of execution is available on a platform like this.
Robert Sekulic
Maker
@chrismessina Thank you for your kind words :)
Jevin Sew
@rsekulic @chrismessina I feel you man! This looks SURREAL!! Definitely gonna give this one a try.
Robert Sekulic
Maker
@jevinsew @chrismessina Thanks you, Jevin :) We'd love to hear your feedback.
Efosa Omorogbe
@rsekulic @chrismessina I second this, this can't be real? Can it?
Robert Sekulic
Maker
@efosaso @chrismessina :) It's real and after almost 2 years available for everyone to build exceptional native apps :)
Robert Sekulic
Maker
Hello, Product Hunters! We're super excited to launch Shoutem v5 on Product Hunt. Thank you @chrismessina for hunting us. For the last 8+ years, we were on a mission to empower everyone to make great mobile apps. We finally found a way for developers, companies, and individuals with no coding knowledge to supercharge their mobile app development process. For the past year and a half, we've been developing a new version of Shoutem platform. We built Shoutem v5: a developer-friendly platform based on React Native, that allows users to create truly native and cross-platform mobile apps. The platform provides a complete development environment, tools, and freedom to change any functionality of the platform or create a new one. All functionalities are open-sourced so you'll never get locked in. With the complete freedom to modify or create new functionalities, dozens of integrations, hundreds of customizable layouts, CMS, we took care of the drudge-work and reimplementing common functionalities, allowing you to keep the focus on innovating the core of your application. You can use the platform as DIY app builder, to create an app without a single line of code, as we've already built most of the functionalities you'd expect from an app, waiting for you to plug them into your app. We prepared a special discount and limited-time offer for Product Hunters - 20% off on all of our plans for a year, redeemable in the next two months. To claim your discount, simply email our support team at support@shoutem.com with Product Hunt deal, and they'll apply a discount code on your account (we're still working on the implementation of promo code logic 😃 ) Thank you for checking us out, and we'd love to hear your feedback! Feel free to reply with any questions or comments about Shoutem. p.s. On the end of the video, it says to visit www.shoutem.com - we're in the process of migrating new website, so for now, please visit https://new.shoutem.com/ :)
Gady
@rsekulic @chrismessina @shoutem looks like a cool platfrom. when I puslish the app to the app store, is it registered under southem developer account or my own? what if in the future want to replace the app with a unrelated custom made app i built later? also, can I download the source code of the app i built with the builder?
Tomislav Tenodi
Maker
@gaaady It's registered under your own account and you can do with that app whatever you want - you can update it, remove it or replace it with a new unrelated custom app at any time. Yes! You can get the complete source code with "shoutem pull-app" command in our CLI tool. Read more here: http://shoutem.github.io/docs/ex...
Kunal Bhatia
For people with no coding skills, comparing Shoutem's pricing to something like the Build vs. Buy Calculator is interesting. I see a lot of value in this just to get going and get something out there fast. For the Shoutem team–I've seen other app-building platforms come and go. What makes you guys successful and live up to developer standards after they join a team using Shoutem?
Tomislav Tenodi
Maker
Hi @kunalslab, thanks for the comment! We are one of the first platforms, launched in 2010 and still on the market. With the new platform, we focused a lot to make it developer friendly. In the past year and a half, we did many user testing sessions throughout the whole product development phase. First, we built our platform focused on developers first. When building apps, developers reimplement over 80% of the features over and over. Using simple modular architecture, they can reuse already built modules (extensions) and focus on solving the unique problems. Second, we made sure we choose the right technology. The end result app needs to have native look and feel, and it should be easy to develop apps for both iOS and Android. That's why we decided to go with React Native, which was liked even by our native developers. And finally, we made sure our platform is accessible to the developers community. This means both making it free and completely open source. There's no lock-in: developers can build their apps using extensions built by Shoutem and the community. They have complete app project and they decide what to do with it.
Kevin Guebert
Wow, this is gorgeous and very well crafted. Congrats! I went straight for the developer "create your own extension" and the documentation looks to be on point and verbose, so thank you for that! Do you have any plans to try and get more developers to develop for the platform? Or is the focus right now not really on that and hoping for organic growth of developers?
Tomislav Tenodi
Maker
Hi @kevinguebert, our plan is to create a developer community similar to the WordPress one. We want to open up extension marketplace where developers can share and sell their extensions.
Kevin Guebert
@tomislav_tenodi Awesome! Can't wait to try it out 😎
dino reic (@dux)
Bravo guys, outstanding product and presentation.
Tomislav Tenodi
Maker
@dux, thanks a lot! We're glad you like it. :)
Marc Baiges Camprubí
developer friendly is the way to go, shoot for the WordPress of apps! Good luck :)
Robert Sekulic
Maker
Thanks, @marcbc, we couldn't agree more! Yup, that's something we had in mind - to become WordPress for native mobile apps.
Daniel Sierra
@rsekulic Where do I get support for the developer version? The downloaded code is not running on my devices.
Noah Kim
Awesome product. This is the future :). It would be nice to have a free tier that wasn't just a trial. Perhaps just limit publishing for a paid tier, but as it stands, the pricing seems a little steep for me, and possibly a lot of people this tool is actually targeted at.
Tomislav Tenodi
Maker
@wuss Have you checked our developer's plan? I think it exactly has the structure which you're proposing :).
Nebo Radovic
Wow, you guys made such a long way! Still remember playing with it back in 2012 when you were just starting. Congrats!
Robert Sekulic
Maker
@eniac It was an interesting journey, but we finally found the perfect formula for the mobile app development! Thank you for your support :)
Walid Ark
Looks fantastic! I Can't wait to try :)
Robert Sekulic
Maker
@walark We'd love to hear your feedback once you try it :)
Walid Ark
@rsekulic Sure!
Graham Gnall
Looks super impressive. Almost don't believe it :) Can't wait to run through for a project this weekend.
Tomislav Tenodi
Maker
@ggnall That's awesome! Feel free to ping us with your feedback :)
Hristiyan Dodov
I was thinking of learning React Native. Now I definitely want to learn it! Great product and introduction video!
Robert Sekulic
Maker
@hristiyandodov Thank you. Excited to hear you want to learn React Native :) We launched our own React Native School, new lecture every 2 weeks, to help people learn React Native. Check it out - https://school.shoutem.com/ :)
Buka Cakrawala
wow this is revolutionary 💪🏼
Robert Sekulic
Maker
@bukacak Try it our and let us know what you think! :)
Jay B.
This looks dope.
Robert Sekulic
Maker
@jonathanmarvens Thank you!
Asher Wilens
Very easy to use and seems extremely integratabtle - a definite game changer!
Robert Sekulic
Maker
@asher_wilens Thank you for your feedback :)
Dio Ianakiara
Shoutem is awesome, we are testing it since closed beta and is really great to see it launched here, congrats guys!
Robert Sekulic
Maker
@dio_ianakiara Glad to have on you onboard since the beta and thank you for your kind words. Cannot wait to see your apps published on v5 :)
Dio Ianakiara
@rsekulic let's make it happen!
Robert Sekulic
Maker
Gillian Morris
This looks amazing, but maybe more like the @squarespace of native app makers rather than the @wordpress based on the pricing.. really impressive and I look forward to playing around with it more!
Davor Culjak
Maker
@gillianim Thank you! We were aiming to be easy to use like @squarespace and customizable as @wordpress :)
Danny McDonald
WHAT! As someone who can can't code but seem to find myself running a tech accelerator, this is amazing! It's like Squarespace for apps and it looks beautiful! I usually save my comments after I try testing the product for a little, but I want to go ahead and just say this looks amazing! Also, I like the interface! It looks better than Squarespace!
Davor Culjak
Maker
@danny_mcdonald Thank you! Hope you'll like it even better after you try it :)
Jad Limcaco
This looks amazing! As a designer with some coding experience who has been wanting to build my own apps, this looks like it would be a really useful tool to try out.
Davor Culjak
Maker
@jadlimcaco Thank you! Would like to hear a feedback from you, as you perfectly fit into one of a targeted personas :)
Robert Sekulic
Maker
@jadlimcaco Thanks 😄 We'd love to see what will you create with it. Have you already used React Native? If you're planning to stick with RN, check this out - https://school.shoutem.com/
Hussein Yahfoufi
Wow so cool to see the Shout'em team still rocking it! I used version 1 of Shout'em way back in the day when it was about creating your own microblog! Awesome guys!!
Robert Sekulic
Maker
@husseinyahfoufi It was an exciting journey last 8+ years #nostalgia😄 Thanks for the support Hussein, hope you'll start using v5 in the near future
Coolman
Thats funny, I'm literally using this via react-base at this second. I'm enjoying it. https://blog.nativebase.io/launc...
Tomislav Tenodi
Maker
@ash_coolman Glad to hear that! :)