How to build an app as non-technical person [Guide]
I got a ton of not very valuable leads for my software development company from non-technical people/first-time entrepreneurs on how to build an app.
Therefore, I decided to put a pretty comprehensive guide with case studies and tools to help those guys to build an app by showing different options that they have.
To give you an instant value without looking at the blog post (which I highly recommend :)) here is a list of case studies on how to build an app as non-technical person.
-
Subscription Box Service – Use a great system from Cratejoy; it’s like Shopify for subscription boxes. Here you can find great guides on how to run a subscription box service
-
Two-Sided Marketplace – Do you want to create another AirBNB? It’s Sharetribe out there. So, you can start your two-sided marketplace today
-
Database-driven application – Create an app based on a database that’s a spreadsheet – use Airtable for it. Easy peasy even for an 8th grader
-
Community application – Always wanted to build the next Hackernews, Producthunt, or maybe Reddit? Just use a free and open-source Telescope NOVA (built with JS <3). The second version of Product Hunt was built with Telescope in 8 days
-
App to match people – Stopcyberbullying is a simple app, which connects random people, who experienced Cyberbullying. The app is based on Typeform, Google Sheets, Zapier, and Gmail. It’s a fully automated system done without any coding. Read instructions on how to do similar app
-
List of products/items submitted by community – Builtwithbootstrap is a fully automated website which makes money selling bootstrap themes (affiliate) and posting websites automatically to their landing page for money. Build on Tumblr ($0 cost for hosting + enables to modify the html+CSS). Read more about how the founder did it here
-
Search directory – You can build a local search directory like Yelp in a few hours. Thanks to WordPress and a cool plugin called ListingPro, you can do it easily. Here you have instructions on how to do it step-by-step
-
Digital Product – You can start with selling an ebook/mp3/video/excel files to verify your idea. You can use Gumroad to launch a single digital product website with great admin/analytics dashboard and implemented payment system
-
Web application – Kollecto is a web app that helps people become art collectors. It’s making $30k per month and was built by a founder without any coding skills. Read a case study on how a solo founder did it here
Enjoy!
Full blog post How to build an app as non-technical person?
Cool, interesting angle
Has anyone used Bubble (https://bubble.is) to build out a web application? Curious to know how well it worked for you. Looks like a decent way to validate an idea and build out an MVP.
Cool post thanks for sharing. I was confused it makes it sound as if you can build an app with Airtable alone, which is close, but not really the case, correct?
Try http://tabledo.com to turn a spreadsheet into a site
Really interesting! Thanks for the info, it's very helpful for people like me :)
Great post!
I keep forgetting about Airtable, such a great product.