About
HypeApps lets web developers build native iOS and Android apps the way they build for the web — by sending HTML-like markup from a server. You write HAM (Hypermedia Application Markup); HypeApps renders it as a real native app with access to camera, sensors, local storage, and platform UI. No Swift, no Kotlin, no React Native, no JavaScript build pipeline.
Building a mobile app traditionally means a new language, a new framework, a new toolchain, app-store provisioning, and a redesign for "mobile-first" idioms — even if you already know how to ship a web app on a server. HypeApps takes the htmx insight ("just send HTML over the wire") and applies it to native mobile. Your server responds with markup; the app renders real native widgets; partials swap in like htmx, local state works like Alpine, styles compose like Tailwind. The dream is to make shipping a mobile app feel like putting up an HTML page at a URL.
HypeApps is a server-driven UI (SDUI) framework — the same architectural pattern Airbnb, Netflix, Lyft, DoorDash, Block/Square, Shopify, and the open-source Hyperview ship in production. The client parses HAM and renders real native widgets through Flutter's renderer; no browser is in the loop at runtime. Gestures, scrolling, animations, accessibility, and keyboard are all native. Because the vocabulary of tags, attributes, and operators ships in the binary, the server can arrange and parameterize what's already there but can't introduce new native capability — which keeps HypeApps on the data side of Apple's guideline 2.5.2.
The target user is a web developer who finds mobile development too painful: someone who already thinks in HTML, utility classes, and server-rendered partials, likes htmx / Alpine / Tailwind / server rendering, and wants a real native app without learning Swift or Kotlin or wrestling a JS bundler. It's not aimed at teams already happy in React Native or SwiftUI, at fully-offline apps, or at game development.
HypeApps is built in public by Lazarus Morrison — a computer scientist with 20 years building for the web, host of the hx-pod podcast and Hypermedia TV. It's solo, indie, and community-driven — not a VC-backed startup. The framework has been used in production by its creator for roughly seven years; the public release lands Fall 2026.
Pre-launch. The site collects emails and "dream app" submissions from web developers who want in. There's no public SDK, npm package, or install command yet — only a waitlist. You can try the ideas today: write HAM in the playground and run it in the Hype Apps showcase app. Developer resources live on the developer portal; reach a human at laz@communityfluency.com.