Title: Hello, HN!<p>We&#x27;re Antonio, David, Jason, and Mark. We’re building Glide (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glideapps.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glideapps.com</a>). Before this we worked on Xamarin, quicktype, Ubuntu, Mono, and GNOME Do :D<p>Glide makes it easy &amp; fun for anyone to create apps without code. Pick a Google Sheet and Glide assembles a polished, data-driven app that you can customize, share as a PWA, and publish to the App Store and Google Play if you desire.<p>We&#x27;ve spent the last decade building developer tools. In that time we&#x27;ve watched thousands of developers struggle to design, implement, and maintain apps, and most developers we know avoid mobile development altogether.<p>Apart from developers, we hear worthy app ideas from non-technical colleagues, friends, and family every day: apps for work, new business ideas, and silly apps just for fun. All of these people can make websites, so why can&#x27;t they make apps?<p>We were dismayed to find that there are hundreds of &#x27;low-code app builders&#x27;, but none that excited us. They&#x27;re enterprisey, they output kludgy apps, and their low-code contrivances often felt more complicated than the code they replaced. Why hasn&#x27;t anyone made the Google Docs or Figma of apps yet, we wondered.<p>That&#x27;s our ambition. Glide makes app development web-based, collaborative (coming), and fun by combining data-bound components with a familiar spreadsheet model. Spreadsheets are the most successful programming model of all time, and smartphones are the most successful computer, so we&#x27;re bringing them together to enable anyone to create apps without code.<p>We&#x27;ve implemented a component model based on self-adjusting computation (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umut-acar.org&#x2F;self-adjusting-computation" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umut-acar.org&#x2F;self-adjusting-computation</a>), which allows Glide apps to update efficiently and continuously just like spreadsheets. You can see the benefit of this in our Comments component, which syncs comments in real-time to instances of the same app. In other words, Glide apps are multiplayer by default.<p>We&#x27;re just getting started and would love feedback on the approach. There are many technical&#x2F;design challenges ahead of us but we are encouraged by the useful apps our users have created with this early version. We even use Glide to build Glide–internally we&#x27;ve created dashboard apps, an app to share updates with our advisors, a directory that shows us which Glide apps are trending, and an app for our YC group.<p>Next on our roadmap: forms, improved image handling, notifications, and offline.<p>- Get started: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go.glideapps.com&#x2F;?signUp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go.glideapps.com&#x2F;?signUp</a><p>- Video demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=smNwrz9wMxU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=smNwrz9wMxU</a><p>- App templates: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glideapps.com&#x2F;samples" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glideapps.com&#x2F;samples</a><p>Thank you.
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