So I built this in react-native with plan to release on both iOS and Android but focused on the iOS launch first. The plan was that if people liked it/used it/there were some paying users to offset the costs of hosting/APIs, then I would release the Android version as well.

I will update you if the Android version is launched!

Frankly thought your comment was in jest until people responded to you with serious recommendations :)

Thanks for the feedback! I haven't heard this one from customers yet as most are fine with sign in with apple (private relay email) but definitely taking this into consideration for the next updates.

Yes, that seems to be a popular request.

There are some ongoing variable costs depending on usage (AI image generation + storage) but for every other feature, I agree a one time payment makes sense. I will change it if enough people don't subscribe.

For someone who didn't study a STEM subject or CS in school, I've gone from 0 to publishing a production modern looking app in a matter of a few weeks (link to it on my profile).

Sure, it's not the best (most maintainable, non-redundant styling) code that's powering the app but it's more than enough to put an MVP out to the world and see if there's value/interest in the product.

And sometimes it just bugs out and doesn't give any response? Faced that twice now, it "thought" for like 10-30s then no answer and I had to click regenerate and wait for it again.

I've seen it take over a couple of minutes, at which point I switched to Claude. And have seen reports of it taking even longer. So it may be that you didn't wait long enough.