I've often thought that hand coding custom business apps from scratch (even with the multitude of frameworks, libraries and themes available) is going to be loo

I've often thought that hand coding custom business apps from scratch (even with the multitude of frameworks, libraries and themes available) is going to be looked back on in years to come as a painfully inefficient and costly way to build things. I run a custom software house. There's a huge amount of overlap in what our customers ask us to build in terms of features. I've longed for some kind of plug and play platform, that allows the us to include modules such as authentication, a reporting UI, workflows, email scheduling and templates etc, and then customise them to produce a functioning app as per the client's requirements. We've actually had a go at creating something similar to this in .Net and it's some of the way there. We use it and I've often dabbled with the idea of commercialising it. I'll be interested to see how close this is to my vision...nice work :)