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I'm working on a "Unity for everything else". If you build an IoT product, most anything consumer facing, tools for small business, etc, your customers will exp

I'm working on a "Unity for everything else". If you build an IoT product, most anything consumer facing, tools for small business, etc, your customers will expect a multi-platform experience. They want an app on iOS and Android as well as a responsive website. This is currently a pain in the ass to build. You either end up with a very carefully made architecture to share code or build everything a bunch of times or some combination. Huge budget problem. I know, I've had to do it... Currently looking for people who would want to collaborate on some of the open source pieces that are needed. Short term I think the right place to start is to build an open source toolkit leveraging NextJS + React Native to create a single project for all platforms. Long term imagine an IDE (VS Code Extension), hosting, backend ecosystem, marketplace for themes and plugins, a simple opinionated project structure for building things that run on web, iOS, and Android to start. Eventually probably Desktop too. Based all on open source tools to avoid vendor lock-in.

tomcam 5y ago
I think that product already exists: LiveCode https://livecode.com/ https://livecode.com/
- jconley 5y ago
  Yeah, they're proof that this sort of thing can be valuable. But they have a very different approach. Proprietary language, components, etc. I wouldn't want to be locked into their ecosystem. That's typical with game engines, but not with web and mobile applications these days. Even Microsoft has gone full open source. I wouldn't use LiveCode as the basis to build a company on. I'm building the open version. Made for startup teams and indie hackers that want to make world class products on top of the open source tools they would probably use anyway.
  - tomcam 5y ago
    Interestingly Livecode had a GPL version until a few months ago. But I can’t wait to see your project, which sounds right up my alley. You could build yours starting with JUCE which has done an immense amount of heavy lifting in the portability department. It is also GPL. https://docs.juce.com/master/index.html https://docs.juce.com/master/index.html

tomcam 5y ago

I think that product already exists: LiveCode https://livecode.com/ https://livecode.com/

jconley 5y ago
Yeah, they're proof that this sort of thing can be valuable. But they have a very different approach. Proprietary language, components, etc. I wouldn't want to be locked into their ecosystem. That's typical with game engines, but not with web and mobile applications these days. Even Microsoft has gone full open source. I wouldn't use LiveCode as the basis to build a company on. I'm building the open version. Made for startup teams and indie hackers that want to make world class products on top of the open source tools they would probably use anyway.
- tomcam 5y ago
  Interestingly Livecode had a GPL version until a few months ago. But I can’t wait to see your project, which sounds right up my alley. You could build yours starting with JUCE which has done an immense amount of heavy lifting in the portability department. It is also GPL. https://docs.juce.com/master/index.html https://docs.juce.com/master/index.html