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

Summary

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/_3VCl13oMGcAnd here are the actual one-shotted apps I made in that video:- https://asim.sh/@dli/s/157003/make-an-app-where-i-can-upload...- https://asim.sh/@dli/s/157014/make-me-an-app-that-is-a-clone...- https://asim.sh/@dli/s/157006/make-me-a-chess-timer-app-for-...All of our app generations also get access to a set of APIs that help get the ball rolling on some basic functionality. These APIs range from LLM usage and image generation to having shared state with your friends, and globally among all users. We’re always on the lookout for new API integrations (i.e. Spotify and Maps) so please let us know if you need any!We’ve had a small cohort of beta users that have been making what we think are some pretty cool apps. Here’s some of our favorites:- Pokemon-style Gacha Game - https://asim.sh/@evan/s/126948/elves-vs-monsters- OpenStreetMap stats: https://asim.sh/@lake/s/104102/osm-stats- Star wars idle game: https://asim.sh/@jojaspero/s/29102- Find your Meyers Briggs - https://asim.sh/@typewhisperer/s/135964/jung-mirror (<-- just for fun, you don’t have to believe in MB :))- AI T...