smol developer

your personal junior developer

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your personal junior developer

5.0•1 review•

229 followers

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Instead of making and maintaining specific, rigid, one-shot starters, like create-react-app, or create-nextjs-app, this is basically create-anything-app where you develop your scaffolding prompt in a tight loop with your smol dev.

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Launch tags:Developer Tools•Artificial Intelligence•GitHub

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This is the top trending project on Github AND was topping HackerNews last week! @swyx — what inspired you to build this?

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3yr ago

smol developer

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thanks for hunting @chrismessina! I just got in a rage of frustration that the first thing all my AI founder friends do after getting funding is turn around and spend most of their time recruiting like the pre-AI founders do. aren't we supposed to be AI believers? I want to at least be able to hand off part of my job to a personal junior developer, and if I don't believe that can be done then I probably shouldn't be in AI. In short I think its better to "build the thing that builds the thing" (https://twitter.com/swyx/status/...) at least for personal productivity, but hey it turned out that many many people were also really interested in this too! I don't want to get people too excited, its just an MVP for now, but I think many people weren't aware that with GPT4 and 100k context windows, this sort of thing is basically almost here.

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3yr ago

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Hey there PH! I'm excited to introduce you to smol-developer, an open source tool I created to make prototyping apps frictionless and fun. As developers, we spend a lot of time setting up configs and boilerplate code to get our projects off the ground. I got tired of all the repetitive setup for new ideas, so I built smol-developer - a scaffolding system that spins up anything from a Chrome extension to a ChatGPT plugin, building up a massive prompt in `prompt.md` that does coherent, human centric whole program synthesis. I hope you'll give smol-developer a try for your next app or side project. Let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions - I'm continually improving and adding features. And of course contributions are always welcome! The goal of this tool is really to give developers their time and creativity back. Happy building! Let me know what you think - I'd love to see what you create with smol-developer!

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3yr ago

Stack Roboflow

@swyx super compelling project. what are some things you learned about promoting while building this?

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3yr ago

List of acronyms maker

"your personal junior developer" Sounds accurate! For me it could be competition, but for a senior dev it's something that's going to make things that might end up taking more time to review than to build from scratch (my feeling). Nice demo video. It would be nice if the tool could summarize the files it has created and why. Congrats for the launch and for trending on Hackernews ;)

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3yr ago

Nack AI

Time to become a development outsourcing agency. "I have a unlimited army of junior developers that will work 24/7 around the clock to build your project." Seriously, huge project. Congrats!

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3yr ago

Swiftly Design iOS Icon Pack

Great work @swyx, been playing around with Modal the past few days and using smol developer for an example iOS apps – definite has a few quirks (assets packages, assets, adding packages that don't exist) but the potential is insane! Hope to be jumping in on Github soon :)

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3yr ago

Woah! Nice launch @swyx ! This looks really sweet. Now I want to build all the chrome extension ideas I've had but never wanted to learn exactly how to build one. Love that you can also go from app back to the prompt.

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3yr ago