Creator of the Week: BMI app from idea to market in just 6 hours

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Creator Profile

Creator: Hari

Profession: Mobile Apps Developer

Location: United Kingdom

Solution: BMI Calculator

Hari has years of experience building software, but was on a mission to develop something rapidly without writing any code. With the BMI Calculator, he succeeded in publishing his app to the App Store after only six hours of working in Composer Pro. He’s also launching a YouTube channel called No Code Buddy, where he’ll be sharing more insights on visual tools.

How did this project get started?

I developed a few simple applications before the BMI Calculator but never published them. But I have around 10–13 years of experience in software development, and I’ve been exploring different no-code platforms. I was interested in finding something that was an easy way of doing development, more than the traditional way of writing lots of lines of code.

Initially I found AppGyver challenging because compared to other no-code platforms, it has a lot of features and it’s quite big.

What impressed me was that you can build the same thing AppGyver makes for their clients, but we don’t have to pay anything, it’s completely free.

I wanted to make something quite simple that was calculation-based, and then start putting together the design. Once I started with AppGyver, I found more and more useful features, like all of the components and formulas. So I started creating this BMI calculator, so it could be something useful, as people who are more health-focused can keep track of their weight, and plan out eating and exercise habits.

Why was Composer Pro the right fit?

AppGyver is, in one word, much more mature than other tools like Adalo or Bubble. I was very much impressed with the API endpoints, you can pretty much do anything, whereas Adalo had more limitations.

I’ve also gotten a lot of help from the AppGyver support team, and it’s very impressive because whenever I drop a question, I get an answer. On other platform channels, even if you’re a paid subscriber, they don’t care about your questions, feedback, or some technical challenges you’re facing. AppGyver is doing extremely well in that area.

How was the building process?

To be honest, I probably spent six hours on building the entire thing. On the same day, I published it to the App Store, and it was approved the next day. So the whole journey, from planning, designing, and taking it to market took me a total of six hours of work.

It was really impressive for me because it’s a simple app, but the way it helped me to encapsulate all the technical sides of it — configurations, building, making it compatible with Android and iOS — there was nothing to worry about. The platform took care of everything in just a few clicks.

What kind of feedback have you gotten?

There have been around 30 unique downloads in the last few days. Once they installed it, many of them found it very useful, and they’re enjoying it. So far the feedback for the look and the overall user experience has been really good.

If you look at the colors I’ve chosen, it’s a material design color palette. AppGyver has a basic color structure, so I went into a material color picker website, and selected two, pasted them into AppGyver, and then it came up exactly how I wanted.

I’m not focused so much on how many people use it, but I wanted to see how quickly I could develop my idea, bring it into reality, and reach the market.

What do you hope to achieve with this?

Basically the way I’m looking at it, the future is app development. The future is in small screens. I think in 5 to 10 years, my kids and their kids probably won’t be using laptops. I want to start building more apps with better ideas, create something as a startup, and bring it to that level to resell it for a bigger audience. If it works fine, I’ll keep bringing better ideas, and go for the market because I’m not really spending any money on this, just my time.

As a professional software developer, how do you see “no-code” fitting in with your role?

I feel like it has a huge potential to become an equal share with coding. No-code cannot replace coding because the platforms are built with coding, but it can take the equal share and become just as useful. People like me, or people with less knowledge or money who don’t want to spend their resources on setting up a team, they can build out their ideas and go to market.

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