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It is neat for sure, so are using appventor (blocks to build android apps)[1] and other shortcuts to build websites and apps.

The problem is that it says simple, while talking about Git for goodness sakes; commit permissions and such. It says no code. I disagree... you need to know HTML basics to even comprehend the Mavo way.

Why not just make a vanilla HTML page if that is all you need? HTML is not hard... and how is this moving us past CRUD?

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In the storage docs they mention that you do not need to know Git to use Mavo. They simply use Github as a backend for storage. So a beginner would merely have to setup a Github account to get persistence for their app.

Right... here is a bit of a sarcastic retort: "just use this thing called Github. Don't worry that you have no idea what Git actually is... log on to Github and start saving stuff there. Commit you ask? Don't worry, don't code anything!"

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