Re:Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift Apps on Your iPhone
by jacobx on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @03:34PM
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Yeah, I think that whole area of dynamically generating UI is really interesting. And having a Swift interpreter like we're using would unlock doing that with native UI components.
Our background is more in making developer tools, so bitrig was the first product we were excited about, but I think there's a lot of overlap with dynamic UI generation, and we'd love to explore that too.
Re:Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift Apps on Your iPhone
by ignoramous on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @06:40PM
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Nice. Are you folks thinking about Kotlin/Flutter on Android too, or is it going to be exclusively focused on the ecosystem around Swift?
Re:Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift Apps on Your iPhone
by jacobx on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @07:47PM
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There’s still a lot to do to make this work really great for the Swift ecosystem, and that’s where we have the most expertise, so that’s what we’ll be focused on for now.
That said, we think this same approach could work really well on Android, and it’d be interesting to expand there too.
With your sunscreen example, I should be able to just ask Siri to do exactly this, and it could tap me in my pocket, show me a custom UI to log periodically and then disappear.
Not sure on limitations of APIs on iOS but definitely feels like there is space for a better voice assistant, just like how Raycast have created a better Spotlight on Mac.
Looks very cool so far!