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by mooreds 2490 days ago
What kind of app are you looking to build?

If it is a general purpose application, I'd look at learning rails (this book was great for me: https://www.railstutorial.org/book ) and host on heroku.

If it is an API driven application, I'd look at using a tool like Zapier: https://zapier.com/ or Transposit: https://www.transposit.com/ (full disclosure, I work at Transposit).

There may be some low code/no code solutions for mobile apps, but I'm not in that space so not familiar with them.

Frankly, depending on your app, you could do a lot with google forms/typeform and some manual behind the scenes work: http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html

Again, it all depends on what kind of application you are trying to build.

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Okay, so I have been working on this project (https://blup.in/) to help founders to build native mobile apps for their startup on their own and was wondering if this makes sense for you!

And if you could give some feedback regarding this that would be great. and I just stumbled on this idea as I wasn't able to find any decent mobile app-building platform which can make things work.

Heya, as someone who hasn't seriously touched a mobile app codebase in years, I am not your target market :). Maybe there's a subreddit on mobile development where you can get informed feedback.
Sure, will give it a try!:)