Ask HN: Is there an App Builder that doesn't Suck?

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I surveyed a bunch of them, AppMakr, Genwi, but all they seem good for was creating just "one" kind of app, that's a simple RSS feed-reader. Is there something better out there, like Weebly is for Websites ? Or there is no demand for an appbuilder ?

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You can build apps with Visual C# or Delphi or many other RADs with relatively very little coding.

IE a basic wordpad - type text editor with some rich text editing would consist of:

- dropping a RichText control on a form (an empty window), and giving it a name ('editor') - dropping buttons on the form, graphically placing them, and selecting captions, etc. - Setting onClick events for the buttons, and placing code to the effect of ('editor.selection.font.style = 'bold';)

If you can code, you can use things like Titanium to port your web work into native applications.

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