Re:An app can be a home-cooked meal
by sevencolors on Sunday February 16, 2020 @04:21PM
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I really identify with his home cook metaphor. I love cooking for folks and often get compliments that I could be a chef. Mostly because I’ve been cooking since I was a child. Ironically I’ve become a “software engineer” in a similar manner, 10 years of just trying things out and making things for friends and family. I do agree we’re getting to a space in software development that’s making it a bit easier to play and experiment with ideas. I think it would amazing if folks could get a BlueApron like expenience and make an app that would be useful
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Re:An app can be a home-cooked meal
by dontdoitpls on Sunday February 16, 2020 @07:03PM
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Making 1 app is fine. Web or Android, no problem. Both? Double your dev time.
React native you say? Double your dev time to learn a weird language.
Want to service 100% of people? Spend 1000$+ on apple products and beg Apple to let you publish.
Re:An app can be a home-cooked meal
by sevencolors on Sunday February 16, 2020 @07:38PM
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I still think all these details could be solved for with a friendly IDE for beginners. In most cases folks just want to build a thing for themselves or a small group. Right now the tooling is still unfriendly to most but it feels like it’s moving towards something better
Here’s an example, I built a simple app to keep a schedule for watering my various plants that all have different needs. Originally it was just a google sheet but I saw an opportunity to play with ReactNative and expand my knowledge
A lot of everyday people, have spreadsheets like this that could be friendlier. They’re not trying to ship it to thousands just themselves and maybe a friend. Like sharing a meal and then the recipe :)