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Re:The unnecessary demise of Barnes and Noble by metaobject on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:59PM (#16389747)
My software development experience lies far outside of the web/mobile app development world, so perhaps this idea already exists...

Similar to how PG and RTM created Viaweb (a web application that allowed non-technical people to build online e-commerce sites), are there any sites/tools which allow non-technical people develop non-trivial retail/online purchasing iPhone/Android apps?

Re:The unnecessary demise of Barnes and Noble by jacobr1 on Friday February 16, 2018 @07:20PM (#16397915)
There plenty of limited functionality (trivial in your words) style WYSIWYG style app builders. But for non-trival apps the best I've seen is https://www.dropsource.com/ They do seem to be solving this problem but not focusing on complete non-technical people, just people without direct mobile experience.