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I started this as my 20% project many, many years ago. I since moved on to the Dart and now Polymer teams, but I'm very, very happy to see the project launch.
by spankalee 8y ago
I started this as my 20% project many, many years ago. I since moved on to the Dart and now Polymer teams, but I'm very, very happy to see the project launch.
App Maker has been a huge force multiplier internally at Google. Hundreds of smaller internal apps, many catering to very specific business and HR tasks were created by non-engineers, often times by the owners of the process themselves. This self-determinism in custom software - not having to find and convince engineers to build something for you - is really important as software becomes critical to the long tail of business processes that have still been powered by paper, spreadsheets, emails, chat, etc...
- neovive 8y agoCongratulations on starting a great project!. I've been experimenting with App Maker for an internal Edu project and it looks great. I noticed that Drive Tables are gone; did they not scale well?
- j45 8y agoCongrats, my hope is something like this can become a more usable MS Access replacement.
- spankalee 8y agoThat's the idea. I did a bunch of FileMaker consulting before getting my CS degree and joining Google, so a lot of the ideas are based on that type of tool, but thinking of how to do it better: Client and server side scripting with real JS, multiple nested data-contexts per page, multiple data backends, etc.
- pertymcpert 8y agoSeriously impressive to make something to empower people to solve their own problems.