🚀 From Next.js to the App Store: How I Made It Stupid Simple

Hey devs 👋

After struggling (a lot) to publish my first mobile app with Next.js + Capacitor, I realized something:

Shipping to the App Store and Google Play with a web tech stack shouldn’t feel like hacking together 10 different blog posts.

So I built NextNative, a starter kit that turns your Next.js project into a fully working mobile app with native features.

No React Native. No Expo. No Swift. No Kotlin.
Just Next.js + Capacitor + the web stack you already know (like Tailwind and Supabase).

✅ What it solves
• Confusing setup for mobile builds
• Native API headaches (e.g. push notificaitions, auth, icons, splash)
• App Store / Google Play rejection chaos
• Missing polish for real-world MVPs

🧠 What’s included
• 📦 Clean Next.js + Capacitor boilerplate
• 🔐 Auth, push notifications, in-app purchases
• 📱 Pre-configured splash screen, onboarding
• 📤 Deployment guides for both iOS & Android
• 🧪 Live reload
• 🧭 Works with your favorite backend, DB, UI libs

🎯 Who it’s for
• Indie hackers who don’t want to learn React Native
• Web devs curious about mobile platforms
• Founders building a cross-platform MVP
• You, if you’ve ever Googled “next.js mobile app capacitor example” 😉

🧵 Behind the scenes

I posted this on Reddit a few weeks ago and unexpectedly got 10+ paid customers and 3,000+ visitors.

It turns out lots of us want the same thing: to ship without friction.

📬 Wanna follow along?

I’m documenting how I’m building and growing NextNative.
If you’re curious about mobile dev with web tech, or just want to see what works (and what flops), I share everything:

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Happy building 🛠️