Launch HN: ASim (YC S21) – Mobile app that generates mobile apps

Hey HN, we’re Daniel and Daniel (the Daniels) from aSim ( https://asim.sh/ ). aSim is a mobile app that can generate immediately usable and shareable mobile apps from your phone. Tools like bolt.new and v0 have made it easier to build websites by just chatting with an LLM, but things have been lagging on the mobile side. We’ve always been suckers for well-made mobile apps, but today, it is still extremely difficult to build mobile apps with LLMs on your computer, and nearly impossible to do it from your phone. We built aSim to make it easy to build prototypes, “trinket” apps, or just random fun things all async from your phone. You can check our landing page (https://asim.sh/) for some ideas of different types of apps. Hopefully we can bring some life to your side project graveyard, or at least make the graveyard even more numerous. Here’s a demo video of the generation process: https://youtu.be/_3VCl13oMGc And here are the actual one-shotted apps I made in that video: - https://a ... Read full article.