Firebender

In a couple years, oxford dictionary will add the word "firebender", n. a person who creates stellar mobile apps with AI 10x faster than their peers

Congrats on the Launch Aman Gottumukkala!

In the past month, we've spoken with over 60 Android developers, and the most common concern we learned about was code privacy. Developers at larger enterprises wanted to use Firebender but couldn't use their enterprise or personal API keys in our product. I'm excited to share that Firebender now supports custom API Keys! - Supports OpenAI & Anthropic enterprise & personal keys - Sends API calls directly to AI providers without any intermediary - No storing, logging, or training of any sensitive data Try it out at firebender.com, and let us know what you think!

Insane Firebender release ?? Adding Jetpack Compose UI previews to the AI context is a prime example of Android-specific functionality that general-purpose coding assistants won't implement. Yet, it's one of the most time-consuming tasks in Android development. Features like these are what differentiate our product from general-purpose agents and make the decision easier for Android developers to use Firebender. Extremely excited to keep pushing on this ?? ??

?? Released Firebender 0.3.0! ?? highlights: - image support (provide android previews and GPT4/Claude will write code for you) - including file context is more condensed and user friendly - demo's are now up to date ?? we're currently working on difficult AI/agentic problems within android dev, and need your help. here's a sample: - extraordinary tab autocomplete: change existing lines, change code in other files. sub second edits all by hitting "tab" - "ghost" dev AI that works in the background to do simple tasks that you give: AI will run code in emulator, iterate against previews in the background w/o disrupting your active work - deep integrations into your favorite android studio tools (e.g. perf monitoring, network proxying) ?? I'd love to buy you coffee in SF only if you're passionate about android engineering! Thanks :)

Firebender (YC W24) is the most powerful AI assistant for Android Studio. Existing AI tools fall short for Android developers. They don't integrate Android-specific context from the IDE and struggle to provide accurate suggestions for modern SDKs, libraries, and UI frameworks due to outdated training data. Firebender is an AI-powered Android Studio plugin that integrates with your codebase, profiler, Logcat, and emulator. It uses a real-time knowledge base to deliver superior assistance for modern Android development, including frameworks such as Jetpack Compose and Kotlin Multiplatform. Congrats, Aman Gottumukkala and Kevin T., on the launch! https://lnkd.in/gYe8duUy

Our YC launch last week exceeded expectations, leading to a quadrupling of daily active users, several users investing, and strong cohort retention. We're building on this momentum by launching Firebender again, this time on Product Hunt! Kevin T. and I are unwaveringly committed to pushing the boundaries of what's possible by building the most powerful and versatile tools for developers across all Android platforms - from phones and AR/VR to AI wearables, cars, and robotics. Upvote our Product Hunt launch and let us know what you think!