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Bootstrapped a Capacitor boilerplate after losing weeks to iOS/Android wrapping - need iOS testing!

Every web app I built, the app itself was the easy part. But wrapping it always gave me a headache: doing the Capacitor config, Info.plist edits by hand, hunting for where Firebase creds go, and of course, Gradle breaking on days when I hadn't touched anything. Every AI tool I asked gave a confident fix that didn't work, because the real cause was always one layer deeper than what any of them checked.

After doing that fight a few times, I got tired of it, and I packaged the fix into a boilerplate instead of re-solving it every time.

And so Launchplate was born! You edit two files (a config + your src), and everything else is pre-wired: Supabase auth, RevenueCat subscriptions, push notifications, icon/splash generation. Works with virtually any web stack.

Android's tested and solid. iOS builds clean in CI on real macOS every push, but I don't own a Mac or iPhone so it's never run on real hardware! (If you do want to test it out though, use code 2026LP for half off)

Bootstrapping this myself (student, one phone, no funding), just trying to build something that pays for itself and fund a trip to see my girlfriend. Any feedback welcome!

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