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bmoskowitz
13y ago
The seed for the entire idea was actually people in mobile-first environments—developing countries, etc—and helping empower them to make software for themselves and their communities. We started with desktop authoring, and it's been a
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bmoskowitz
13y ago
Yeah, not yet ready for primetime. This hasn't launched yet, and won't for a while. But you can look under the hood: https://github.com/mozilla/appmaker and check out where we're intending to go: https:
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bmoskowitz
13y ago
Some fair points—but, it's worth reiterating that there was no intent to push this out for evaluation :) We work in the open, up to and including staging pre-alpha software on public URLs so we can gather feedback in-progress. In this
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bmoskowitz
13y ago
That's right—and the priority is to let people with little or no progamming experience make their own mobile apps. Think Hypercard. We're shipping a bunch of starter components to begin. In the future, we're looking at openin
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bmoskowitz
13y ago
From someone peripherally involved in the project: This is an open source project, community-built from the beginning. It's pre-alpha. Pre-pre alpha, even. There has been no public launch or fanfare. That's why you'll see no