Scrappy: Building Home-Grown Apps for Friends and Family
2025-06-18
John and Pontus created Scrappy, a research prototype for making simple, personalized apps for yourself and your friends. It's a visual tool similar to Figma or Google Slides, but allows attaching behaviors to interactive objects. You drag and drop objects like buttons and text fields, and add JavaScript code to define their actions, like recording text input on a button click. Scrappy apps are multiplayer, with persistent and synced state, making collaboration with friends and family seamless. The goal is to democratize software creation, enabling more people to build apps tailored to their unique needs.