Sanket Sahu
Sanket Sahu is an individual product builder, open-source maker, speaker, and creator rather than a standalone company. He builds tools that reduce friction between ideas, design, and code, with a current focus on AI-assisted mobile app prototyping through RapidNative and on open-source developer infrastructure.
At a Glance
- Founders and startups
- Product managers
- UX and product designers
- Developers and engineering teams
- +3 more
AI Tools by Sanket Sahu
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Lifo
Browser Based Linux Like OS
tinbase
Lightweight Local Supabase Backend
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Latest News
Published 'The language stopped mattering,' describing a new open-source Go project and build-in-public lessons about measurement and keeping projects small.
Published 'Kotlin Multiplatform with Compose: notes from an experiment,' documenting a cross-platform experiment across Android, iOS and Web.
Published 'Recovery in vibecoding tools: a four-level escalation ladder,' explaining how RapidNative recovers from flaky networks, incorrect AI output and runtime errors.
Published 'Speed, caching, and the 40x cost wall,' detailing RapidNative's agent stack, Cerebras inference and a possible split-agent architecture.
Products & Services
AI-powered collaborative mobile-app prototyping and development platform built at Shaper Studio. It turns prompts, sketches, images or product documents into full-stack React Native/Expo applications, with a browser editor, real database, authentication, file storage, realtime updates, code export and App Store/Google Play deployment workflows.
An ultra-fast Linux-like operating system in the browser for agents and humans, mapping Linux APIs to browser APIs with 60+ commands, a bash-like shell, virtual filesystem and IndexedDB persistence; it can run untrusted code in the browser.
Open-source browser runtime for React Native and Expo apps, mapping Metro to the web and providing HMR, Expo Router, assets and source maps without local CLI, Xcode or Android Studio setup; MIT-licensed and self-hostable.
A personal documentation system based on structured Markdown files for profile, health, career, relationships, decisions, routines and a master timeline, designed to be maintained collaboratively with Claude.
Market Position
Sanket spans the React Native open-source ecosystem and AI-assisted design-to-code/mobile-app tooling. RapidNative positions itself as a path from an idea to a real full-stack native app and App Store/Google Play release, competing for users with adjacent tools and workflows such as Lovable, Rork, Bolt and Emergent; NativeBase/gluestack address the universal accessible component and full-stack framework space, while BuilderX and Shaper target design-to-code and design-system workflows.
Leadership
Founders
Sanket Sahu
Product-focused technology leader and developer who began programming with QBasic, co-founded GeekyAnts in 2013 as a freelancer, served as its CEO for more than a decade, created or co-created NativeBase, BuilderX and gluestack, and is now founder/CEO of Shaper Studio and builder of RapidNative.
Kumar Pratik (Pratik Sahu)
Sanket's GeekyAnts co-founder; a product-engineering leader and author of Modern Application Performance 360 who currently leads GeekyAnts as CEO.
Executive Team
Sanket Sahu
Founder and CEO, Shaper Studio; builder of RapidNative
Former CEO of GeekyAnts and co-creator of BuilderX, NativeBase and gluestack; now building Shaper/RapidNative full-time.
Suraj Ahmed
CTO, Shaper Studio
Early GeekyAnts employee and technology leader with more than 10 years at GeekyAnts.
Founding Story
Sanket says he discovered computers at age eight and began experimenting with QBasic. In 2013 he co-founded GeekyAnts as a freelancer, initially building software services and developer tools; open-source work such as NativeBase helped turn it into a global design and development company. His current venture, Shaper Studio, continues the same goal of removing friction between design and development, with RapidNative focused on turning ideas into working mobile apps.
Business Model
Revenue Model
RapidNative uses freemium and recurring monthly or annual subscriptions based on AI credits, storage and team features; Enterprise is custom-priced. Paid plans grant commercial rights, while related open-source projects are available under open-source licenses (reactnative.run is MIT-licensed).
Pricing Tiers
20 AI credits per month, up to 5 screens per project and 10 MB storage.
50 monthly or 450 annual AI credits, unlimited screens, private projects, collaboration, code export and 250 MB storage.
150 monthly or 1,250 annual AI credits and 1 GB storage; includes Starter features.
330 monthly or 2,750 annual AI credits and 3 GB storage; includes Pro features.
725 monthly or 6,050 annual AI credits and 8 GB storage; intended for teams and agencies at scale.
Custom design systems, white-labeling, dedicated infrastructure, SLAs and onboarding.
Target Markets
- Founders and startups
- Product managers
- UX and product designers
- Developers and engineering teams
- Teams and agencies shipping multiple apps
- React Native, Expo and open-source developers
- Founders validating mobile-app ideas with real users
- Product managers showing working prototypes to stakeholders
- UX designers testing interactive designs on real phones
- Developers rapidly scaffolding and exporting React Native/Expo apps
- Teams and agencies building multiple mobile apps
- Running agent or untrusted code in a browser sandbox
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