Do you think Thunkable is only for broke, non-programmers to make apps?
We use it because it’s visual and fast to prototype (and build) apps. And apps that work on both iOS and Android.
And if you’re wondering why we don’t hire an iOS and Android developer, it’s because that’s expensive for our minor needs. We don’t do nearly enough mobile app development to justify full time iOS and Android developers. And you focused on the multi-million part of my answer, and not the “small”. We can’t pay $200K-400K plus benefits for developers we hardly use. We are primarily a Windows software company. We’ve been outsourcing the building of some of our apps for years, but that’s been very frustrating, because the great developers charge too much, and the bad developers are just so sloppy with interface design. The “no-code” platforms finally becoming viable were a godsend. It should be noted that if you do program in most any language, you can rapidly develop apps with Thunkable and the likes.
Oh, and you may wonder, why don’t you just learn iOS or Android programming yourself. I’ve been able to pick up iOS OK, but struggle with Android. There’s just too much to learn to manually code for both platforms. Even simple apps. It would take too much extra effort to get good at these other development environments. Thunkable and the likes solve the problem quite well.
And I would have never mentioned “multi-million” in a reply, but I was asked to clarify where I’m coming from, and I thought my background was important to mention.