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Short, honest pieces about making apps without writing code. No growth-hack sludge, promise.
Latest · 2 September 2026 · 5 min read
How to build an iPhone app without a Mac
2 September 2026 · 5 min read
How to choose an AI app builder for mobile
Most AI app builders are excellent and most of them make websites. Here is the short list of questions that tells you which kind you are looking at before you spend an afternoon on it.
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2 September 2026 · 5 min read
Glassly vs Lovable vs Bolt for mobile apps
A fair comparison for one specific question: you want an app on a phone. What each tool produces, what it leaves to you, and where it is the wrong choice.
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1 September 2026 · 4 min read
Where the website builders stop
Lovable and Bolt changed who gets to make software. But if the thing you pictured was an app on your phone, the browser is where the story usually stalls.
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31 August 2026 · 4 min read
Your group chat deserves better than a group chat
The five-a-side, the book club, the school run rota. At some point the chat stops working, and everyone pretends it has not.
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30 August 2026 · 5 min read
What actually happens in your first ten minutes
A minute-by-minute account of going from nothing to an app on your phone, including the two waits nobody else warns you about.
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28 August 2026 · 4 min read
Why every template is free
Not a promotion, not a loss leader we regret. The economics of giving away finished apps, explained with actual numbers.
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26 August 2026 · 4 min read
Pick a colour, keep the app
We made choosing a colour compulsory before you can create your app. Here is why, and why an app’s colour was never one colour anyway.
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24 August 2026 · 4 min read
The run club test
Our internal bar for whether any of this is good enough: can one busy person get a real app onto their club’s phones before Sunday?
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22 August 2026 · 5 min read
What "no code" actually means here
The phrase gets used for everything from spreadsheets with opinions to drag-and-drop toys. Here is precisely what it means on Glassly, including the limits.
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20 August 2026 · 4 min read
The family cookbook should be an app
The sauce recipe lives in a screenshot of a text from your mum. There is a better place for it, and it takes about three minutes to make.
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18 August 2026 · 4 min read
Coaches with apps keep their clients
PDF plans get lost in inboxes. An app with your name on it sits on the home screen next to Instagram, and that placement does the work.
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15 August 2026 · 4 min read
The meeting nobody wrote down
Four decisions were made on Tuesday. By Friday there are three versions of two of them. Small teams do not have a memory problem, they have a home problem.
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12 August 2026 · 4 min read
Five apps hiding in your ordinary week
You do not need a startup idea. Most good apps are sitting in plain sight inside the admin of a normal life, waiting for someone to notice them.
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