Take bookings
A form that takes the details you actually need, confirms by email, and does not charge you per booking for the privilege.
If you have been quoted for an app
The quote was the hard part.
Most small business software is not hard, it is expensive: a booking form, a customer portal, a quote calculator, something to replace a spreadsheet three people are fighting over.
You own the code — a developer can take it over later, if you ever need one.
A booking form for my salon that emails me each booking.
real code · database includedbuilt in one turn · $0.0072
In short
Describe what it should do. Watch it get built, use it, change it by asking. You own the code, so a developer can take it over later — you just do not need one to start.
Straight answer first
What “app” means here.
The distinction matters less than it sounds. For most of what people describe as “an app for my business”, a link that works on a phone is what they actually needed — and it reaches customers who would never install anything.
It builds this today
- A tool that runs in a browser
- Works properly on a phone
- Send it as a link, no install
- Yours, in a repo, from turn one
Booking, portals, calculators, dashboards, internal tools — most of what a small business is quoted thousands for.
It does not do this today
- A native App Store submission
- A Google Play release
- App review, signing and store listings
It can write the code; it cannot ship a store build for you. Saying so here costs us a sale we would only lose later, and louder.
What people build
Things that were somebody's whole quote.
This is a no-code app builder in the plain sense — you never touch the code unless you want to — with an AI doing the building instead of you dragging blocks. The difference from the drag-and-drop kind: what comes out is real code, in a repository you own.
Give customers a login
A portal where the people you work with can see their own information without emailing you to ask for it.
Replace the spreadsheet
The one that three people edit, that breaks weekly, that nobody trusts. Describe what it is for and get a tool instead.
The working calculator in the showcase was built in one turn for $0.0072, with correct arithmetic. Real projects take more turns — and the cost is on screen the whole way, so nothing arrives as a surprise.
A real one, not a mockup
The working calculator, done in one turn.
“Build a moving-quote calculator. Inputs: number of bedrooms, distance in miles, and a tick box for packing. Price is $150 per bedroom plus $2 per mile, and 20% more if packing is ticked.”
1 turn50s
$0.0072
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Afterwards
A developer can take it from here.
If it outgrows what you want to do yourself, you hand over a normal git repository with real files and a commit history — not a locked account and a support ticket. That is the difference between hiring someone to continue and hiring someone to start again, and it is usually most of the bill.
If you are working out what to call this
Describe what it should do.
It tells you the cost before you spend anything.
Questions
Asked, answered
Can it build a mobile app?
It builds apps that run in a browser and work properly on a phone — a booking tool, a portal, a calculator. It does not currently produce a native app submitted to the App Store or Google Play, and we would rather say that here than after you have paid.
Do I need a developer afterwards?
Not to start, and not for changes — those are a sentence. If you later want a developer involved, they get a normal git repository, not something only we can open.
What does a small tool cost to build?
The working calculator in our showcase cost $0.0072, finished in one turn. Real projects take more turns than that, and the app shows the running cost the whole way.