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Re:Show HN: Early Reader – Free open source reading app I bu... by maxlegav on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @08:02AM (#47764502)
Looks great, I vibe coded something similar myself because everything I have seen is really expensive. I actually went through your repo on GitHub and really like the local-first approach with SQLite and pre-generated assets.But with ~4k audio files and 721 cards, how are you handling app size and load times on mobile? Did you run into any constraints there or have to optimize asset loading in a specific way?
Re:Show HN: Early Reader – Free open source reading app I bu... by melvinmelih on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @02:07PM (#47769081)
That's the only trade-off, the app bundle is about 340MB for the first download but once you have it on your phone it will always work offline and load all assets instantly.