St. Louis Startup, Adalo, Hosts Coronavirus App Contest
The St. Louis startup, Adalo, is leading the way in the creation of simple apps. Their product allows you to turn your dream app into a reality without having to learn how to code. Their easy to use site allows you to drag & drop reusable building blocks to create your app’s interface, link the pages of your app together to bring your app to life, and go from prototype to real app with simple database spreadsheets.
Adalo’s purpose is to unlock the world’s creative potential so that anyone can bring their ideas to life and create a world where everyone can innovate everything. They believe anyone should be able to make an app, regardless of technical skill. With Adalo, building apps doesn’t have to be scary, slow, & expensive. Adalo is a platform that makes creating apps as easy as putting together a slide deck. What Wordpress, Wix, and Squarespace have done for websites, Adalo does for apps.
This St. Louis company has partnered with NuCode, a group for no code app makers, to put together the #NoCodeConnectsUsChallenge. This challenge is a contest in which the winner of the competition gets free access to Adalo. The contest encourages participants to create apps that are used to help others during the COVID-19 pandemic. A few suggestions from the organizers of the contest included: an app to host virtual game nights, an app to coordinate home workouts with friends, and an app to discover which restaurants are open for takeout. The creators of Adalo hope that this competition leads to the development of apps that not only have an impact during the pandemic, but afterwards as well.
Adalo was co-founded by David Adkin, Ben Haefele and Jeremy Blalock in 2018. They are located within St. Louis’ T-Rex incubator and they were a recipient of a 2019 Arch Grant.