[AureliusDreamer]

These time estimates seem excessive. 8 hours to “set up the environment”?

Also, doesn’t Expo already offer most of these boilerplates for free?

Edit: Not to mention that Expo handles most of the heavy lifting for each of these items (e.g publishing to app stores). What are customers paying for that they cannot easily get for free from the Expo team?

[jascination]

For a new React Native developer, I think it's minimum a full day of work to get your head around setting up a new RN project (even with Expo), finding out what dependencies your app needs and trawling through different documentation to learn it, things like that.

Differences to Expo - HyperFast is built on top of Expo. With Expo you get a great developer experience but you don't get code. HyperFast is a white-label best-practice UX app template, with

- app intro screens - signup/login/logout - an onboarding screen - a news feed - an item detail page - ability to "like" items - an account settings page where you can edit your info - a push notification service that lets you set up pre-built recurring local notifications

This is what "boilerplate" or "starter kit" means to me, but if that language isn't correct I'm keen to know how you'd describe it! Expo is an amazing tool but the purpose of HyperFast is to actually give you an app that you can customise.

As for the heavy lifting on publishing to the app store - yes, kinda, it can handle submissions, but HyperFast tells you _what to write_ in your app store listings, what kind of imagery is needed, gives sample text, etc.

Not to mention the huge benefit of having me on our private Discord channel giving advice, code feedback, debugging help etc. All of this is included _on top of Expo_, not in competition with it.

Thanks so much for your feedback! I think it shows that my sales page isn't quite there yet.

[c0balt]

> These time estimates seem excessive. 8 hours to “set up the environment”?

Likely a windows user /s