The new ‘building for non-coder’ apps keep on coming and evolving – fast

Every day, a blizzard of AI news pours into my inbox, and lately a LOT of it is about new tools to do amazing things without “knowing how.”

It dovetails with my recent move to turn another grand vision into something concrete, that works. (I may also try to turn my Now Edition into something more robust than my Floot and Base 44 attempts, that have their struggles.)

I could probably spend days just playing with the ones in this list from one of the Medium writers I follow.

So from that list, I decided to try Bolt.

I created this concept sheet for my idea of a universal one-top spot to track people I know, topics of any kind, places and issues and … well, you get the drift.

For now, at least, I thought a simple name would say volumes – leading to a simple, great app.

I call it… Keep Me Posted.

Like the Now Edition, the pieces are all out there – but either they feel clunky or cost an arm and a leg.

One Day 1 until I hit the freebie limits (of course) with Bolt, at least it engaged in some great, meaningful dialogue and drafted the home page idea shown in the screenshot above.

It comes from my own frustration with the limitations of newsroom tools that let you follow any social stream, etc. – but don’t alert you when it’s something of interest.

So simple, and yet I know just as tricky as the Now Edition to bring to full reality.

So … I thought “nice start” but that it didn’t have a chance to really “do” anything because I hit the free token limit.

I was wrong – it actually provided a click-thru to an embryonic dashboard!

Again, I could and just might spend quite some time fleshing things out, but already it feels leagues ahead of some of the others I’ve tried.