Very nice. For me, LLM fills that niche when I need to build something very small. Just built a dumb tiny flashcard webapp (literally a standalone index.html) because I was tired of apps either being either overly complex for my simple use case, or asking me to register/pay/see ads.
Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends
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#22Cool but no link for the source code negates entire point of sharing apps.
It absolutely doesn't.
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#23I love the concept. I think the trick to being successful with a project like this is cracking the user experience in a way that makes it powerful enough to be truly useful, while keeping it simple enough that a child can build (scr)apps (c.f. Super Mario Maker).
Making it possible to lookup and store data in a spreadsheet (maybe using something like the Google Sheets API) could unlock a huge amount of use cases.
I'll be watching this project with interest!
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could self host with your OS’s web server and a dynamic DNS service pointing to your home computer.
"... my wife or kids " you already lost them at "... self host"
GP was suggesting that you would self-host for your wife and kids, not that they would self-host themselves.
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#25Google Studio IO apps seems like a step in the same direction. Now if only we could host it on github and take advantage of static github pages.
In the future, optimised open models will enable more people to develop tools locally, and with an open source AIDE (does this term exist yet? Artificial Intelligence Development Environment) publish / share it in different ways.
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#26So, just like Delphi? (I wonder if somebody ported Delphi / Lazarus to WASM)
I was going to call this "a less-feature rich Delphi without Borland's corporate greed", but then I noticed that Delphi is apparently still alive (somehow?). Delphi was one of my earliest programming experiences in the 90s. Blast from the past.
Yes, it is still alive, it still works great, and if you want something open source, there's Lazarus which is nearly as good.
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#27I would if Apple didn’t put such tight restrictions against hobby app creation
I often create small apps like these for my friends, but 100% of them are written in PHP and plain HTML with some JavaScript. They need to be built quickly, deployed quickly, updated quickly, run on every device, and be runnable by sending a link on WhatsApp. So it doesn't matter what Apple does because I'm never going to put something like that into any App Store.
Well the reason why you are having to use a web browser rather than sharing the app written using native APIs is because Apple forces you to use the App Store, so you yes did matter what Apple does. They prevent you from using the native toolkit and your use of the browser is partly a workaround for that
EDIT also Apple are in full control of what functionality they expose in their web APIs so even then it matters hugely
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#28> You drag objects out on the canvas — a button, a textfield, a few labels. Select an object, and you can modify its attribute in an inspector panel. Certain objects, like buttons, has attributes like “when clicked” that contain javascript code.
Swap JavaScript with VBA and this is the MS Access workflow.
I'd only start using this if it became ooensource though, can find anything to suggest it is.
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#29I feel we are coming at this as programmers, and the opportunity is the community aspect. What about starting with the family run app stores? Masterson style.
No security (you're all friends right) and no way to contribute without an invite. Just a thought.
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#30One of the best things that I did was spending a week making a simple app that can put all my Apple Watch walks on a single big map, then sharing it with my friends after it got published on AppStore. It's been a year since I worked on it, but I still get messages from my friends (and some random people who found it!) how they've walked through an entire city or something. Really rewarding experience, despite having…
This sounds great, could you link the app please?