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by mleonhard 1009 days ago
I built a thing that makes it much simpler to make apps: https://www.applin.dev

You make a web server that returns JSON defining your UI. Then you make a native iOS app by copy/pasting the provided Main.swift file and adding the URL of your server. The app uses an iOS client library, fetches the JSON page definition, and builds/updates the page with native widgets. I'm planning to eventually build Android, web, and desktop clients.

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What sort of customers does this bring in? Looks very interesting, are there any public apps made with this or is it more of a internal-data-entry type of people who use it?
Applin is a brand new product. I plan to use it to build and finally launch https://www.cozydate.com/ .