baton
🥖 Relay for SwiftUI and Compose
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Details
- External ID
- 1402448152
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- baton
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.16913746630727763
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- desktop utilities and voice interfaces
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- graphql relay client for swiftui and compose
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a Relay-equivalent data-fetching framework for SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose requires creating a cross-platform GraphQL compiler, normalized caching engine, and deep integration into declarative native UI reactive runtimes.
What it would actually take: To build Baton, one needs a custom compiler (likely written in Rust or Kotlin/Swift) that parses GraphQL operations, validates schema types, extracts fragments collocated with UI components, and generates strongly typed Swift and Kotlin bindings. It requires building a normalized graph store with garbage collection, optimistic updates, and reactive diffing tailored to Swift's Observation framework and Compose's Snapshot state system. This demands world-class expertise in compiler design, GraphQL specifications, and deep internals of both iOS and Android UI frameworks.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 114 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #98 of 115 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 330 days after the earliest competitor.
- 1,250 SwiftUI components, and an MCP that writes them into your app · hn · 2026-07-27 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- ExpressiveUI · github · 2026-09-09 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- I Built SwiftUI but for macOS MDM · hn · 2026-04-20 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- GlassFan · github · 2026-09-13 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- compose · github · 2026-09-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- kuu · github · 2026-09-18 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Minted · github · 2026-09-09 · 91 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Hora · hn · 2026-04-20 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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