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sahaj_ranaon Launch HN: Blup, create insane apps with visual logic and UI designing.

Hi @jfengel, thanks for mentioning your concerns. We try our very best to use the provided Api-s and documentation from the payment companies like Stripe, Razorpay etc. I believe they deal with security and vulnerabilities the most as they handle millions of dollars everyday and would take all necessary precautions & measures around it. Our job is to provide an interface for that connection. Main transaction happens on the Payment-Companies Servers. I believe it should not be a problem.

sahaj_ranaon Launch HN: Blup, create insane apps with visual logic and UI designing.

Thanks for the appreciation!

sahaj_ranaon Launch HN: Blup, create insane apps with visual logic and UI designing.

Thanks for the encouragement. You can visit https://blup.in/ for early access.

sahaj_ranaon Launch HN: Blup, create insane apps with visual logic and UI designing.

Thanks for the encouragement! will keep you posted.

sahaj_ranaon Launch HN: Blup, create insane apps with visual logic and UI designing.

Will keep you posted!

sahaj_ranaon Launch HN: Blup, create insane apps with visual logic and UI designing.

Hey Aayush, thanks for the appreciation. Looking forward to it.

sahaj_ranaon Launch HN: Blup, create insane apps with visual logic and UI designing.

Hi HackerNews, hope everyone is doing fine!

I'm Sahaj. Founder at Blup. We have created a desktop app that lets you make apps (Android & iOS) right inside it. Anyone with basic coding knowledge can build really insane level of apps with ease.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCuiYlewfCg&ab_channel=Blup

It comes with,

1. An intuitive UI designer that lets you make complex UI for multiple pages.

2. Visual-logics called BlupLightning, which help you to create complex logic, without the need to write them. The good thing about this is that it silently handles all the performance cases, bugs, platform-specific code, and a lot of boiler-plate code that you would have to write otherwise and saves a ton of time. As well as help those who are not proficient in Flutter or coding in general.

3. Optional fully pre-built backend system on top of AWS called BlupSheets. It takes care of all the inner working of a backend so you would not have to set it up and provides a simplified UI layer for anyone to easily create complex SQL queries over it.

4. Visual-logics comes with multiple nodes such as HTTP, file-system, UI-control, Flutter methods, Payments, Video/Audio Player, and a lot more to help you freely choose your own backend or use BlupSheets as per your requirements.

The reason we created Blup is to help entrepreneurs, developers, and designers to create apps without getting limited by coding but rather to focus on what they truly want to solve for their customers or clients.

I started working on Blup in Jan, last year after graduating from college in 2019. During college, I created a startup in the ed-tech space which unfortunately didn't work out. and that was when I realized that idea-to-app takes a lot of time(months) to build and due to that you can't build apps fast enough to go out in the market and if it fails, and you decide to work on any other ideas, you might have to make another app, taking further months building it. This seems too tedious to work on and has a high opportunity cost. This gave me a push to build something that can help me to make apps fast, let me focus more on UI/UX, and can take care of needy-greedy details of code on its own. So, a year later, working 90% solo on this idea, I present you Blup.

Please let me know your thoughts. We are launching Blup on 20th July 2021 on Windows Store for now. Later we will launch for Mac & Linux.

Feel free to show your support or critics.

We are open for early access on https://blup.in/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCuiYlewfCg&ab_channel=Blup

sahaj_ranaon How do founders create mobile apps fast for their startup?

Sure, will give it a try!:)

sahaj_ranaon How do founders create mobile apps fast for their startup?

oh sorry about that. Didn't mean to do so, We were in a very early phase right now so, I just wanted to know if you guys are also facing similar kind of problem.

sahaj_ranaon How do founders create mobile apps fast for their startup?

Yes, that makes sense and due to all these reasons, I thought why not make a flexible app-building platform which could help founders as well as tech engineers to build a mobile app fast so that they can iterate in less amount of time. https://blup.in/ What do you think?

sahaj_ranaon How do founders create mobile apps fast for their startup?

Okay, so I have been working on this project (https://blup.in/) to help founders to build native mobile apps for their startup on their own and was wondering if this makes sense for you!

And if you could give some feedback regarding this that would be great. and I just stumbled on this idea as I wasn't able to find any decent mobile app-building platform which can make things work.