225M devices nobody's building for

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Here’s a number that caught my attention: 225 million.

That’s how many Fire TV devices are out there globally. Until recently, building for them meant learning a whole new stack.

Not anymore.

Amazon just released Vega OS - their new OS for Fire TV that lets you ship apps with React Native. Same stack we already use every day.

So I spent the last few weeks building a full Podcast app on it. Today, the tutorial drops on YouTube.

You’ll learn:

• What Vega OS is and how to set up the Vega Developer Tools
• How to scaffold a monorepo that targets Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, and web from a single codebase
• How to build a Podcast app with multiple screens, an audio player, and live search using the Podcast Index API
• How to publish to the Amazon Appstore

→ Watch the tutorial​

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The best part about this tutorial, is that you will build a production ready app, not only for Fire TV but also for Apple TV, Android TV, and web using a shared codebase as a monorepo.

If you’ve been looking for a new platform to ship to, this one’s worth an hour of your time.

Cheers, Vadim