What kind of software do you envision being created with App Factory? If you can create a system that is both easy for non-technical users and yet powerful enough to make something genuinely useful, I'm all for that. I would love a non-suck variation of the Wordpress/Drupal plugin ecosystem, which is what this most sounds like. What I would be afraid of is the compounded complexity inherent to writing real software systems. That is a really hard problem to solve. One I don't personally think can be solved until AI has reached a certain level.
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I agree. It's a daunting challenge. My vision for App Factory is for it to make custom apps of low to medium complexity, for individuals and small/medium businesses. So probably nothing enterprise-level. For personal apps, think... Travel Adventure Log, House Shopping List, Stamp Collection. For business apps, think... Golf Course Management, Research Log, Request/Approval System. The possibilities are many.
If you're thinking... I can do all this with a spreadsheet, consider this. A house shopping app. Sure, it can be done with a spreadsheet. But wouldn't it be more intuitive to have an orderable list of houses with an image, a mini Google Map with it's location, and details that are important to your decision making? Making a simple app like that would be trivial with App Factory. It might take you 15 minutes to slap together a blueprint to do that. Then spin up an instance of the app, and you're good to go. All through a web interface.
Yeah, it sounds great and definitely would fill a need. I know a lot of non-devs who are trying to do their own thing using Wordpress and its just non-stop pain and frustration, so they ask me to help out sometimes. I will keep an eye on your progress.
Thanks for the vote of confidence :-)