Expo · B2B · tools for building React Native apps
Download the top 100 apps in every category to see who uses your framework
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What they did
Because Expo is open source, it does not know everyone who uses it. The team ran a research project that downloaded the top 100 apps in every App Store category and inspected them to see which were built with Expo.
In their words
Sub Club by RevenueCat · Building Apps Faster: How AI and React Native are Changing the Game – Charlie Cheever, Expo“So we had to download it, just like the top 100 apps in every category, just to get a sense of of what was going on there.”
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