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Anybody still have a link to that article about making software for yourself, with a family video voicemail app as the example how great it is to not need authentication, etc? Or keywords I can use to find it?

<https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/>

sucks that building simple things to use is so hard these days

I think it’s easier than ever actually — ever used netlify drag and drop?

`create-react-app` -&gt; Netlify stack with no web server feels like being on a rocketship.

You can deploy a functional web app in less than an hour if you know what you want!

Have you used Visual Basic? I used to drag and drop components into windows for fun, just to see what they did. Click around the property windows, type stuff, check boxes. Sometimes I’d have installed software that automatically added bits of their functionality to the list of controls I could drop in.

These days it’s like, “I hope someone’s wrapped this feature in a React component and put it on NPM with an example of how to initialize it.”