Read more about what Drew learned from his app getting rejected by the App store, what his experience was launching an app for money, and more.Over the last decade, the barriers to creating a mobile app are getting fewer and fewer. In this case, I just wanted to illustrate the contrast with writing code, where each of those would take weeks. Any real business or worthwhile project is a marathon, not a sprint. I’m usually careful to not brag about short build times. The Carrd site was completely finished in one sitting. The Thunkable app took 2-3 days to get to 95% of what it is today. The difference in time spent on each part (native app, web app, marketing site) is truly incredible. I’ve built all of the pieces for Yesterdays Weather before… in code, in previous versions.

If I look at this project as a whole… across Thunkable, Bubble, and Carrd… the whole thing was incredibly easy, relatively.

I’d use Thunkable for everything beyond that, though! Today, I’d choose Adalo for anything that’s generally straightforward (forms, databases, lists), which is probably 90% of all app ideas. I ultimately chose Thunkable because I wanted to make something that was completely custom, and I was sure I could with Thunkable. I might have been able to achieve the same goal with Adalo, but I wasn’t sure. I was excited to get it back, and Thunkable could do everything I needed… third-party API data, conditionals and object manipulation, etc. Most other nocode native app builders are limited to common use cases (at least for now), but Thunkable has an entire visual coding system that makes it more robust and flexible.Īt the time I built this, Adalo was younger and had less features.

In fact, I had Yesterdays Weather in the Apple app store a few years prior, but it had been neglected and removed. I wanted to try Thunkable, and I had the weather API from before. In this case, I actually chose Thunkable before I chose to make this app. So it might say, “Today, it’s 3 degrees cooler than yesterday, but there’s less wind.�? Yesterdays Weather is a native mobile app and a web app that tells you today’s weather in terms of yesterday’s. **Native Mobile App – Read Drew’s full interview of what he learned

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