March 11, 2025
The world of technology seems to be changing so fast we can’t keep up. As exciting as that is for me, someone who loves technology and is an early adopter, it is scary or overwhelming for others. The one that is top of mind for me this week is the “no-coding” movement that is taking place. There are tools in the market right now that allow small businesses to do things like build websites and mobile apps without hiring a team of developers or designers to do it. Sounds crazy right? It kind of is. But it’s happening – right now. These tools are giving us all the opportunity to build things that would have taken a lot of time and would have required we pay someone lots of money to build just a year ago. These tools are not expensive. We’re talking $10-$20 a month. It costs time and tenacity. For Christian business leaders this means stewardship of the resources God has entrusted you with can be used in new ways. Maybe instead of paying $25K for a website, you can give $2,500 to 10 single moms or widows for groceries or rent.
Here's an example of something I did to show you this power. I went to Grok (similar to GPT) and told it to give me a detailed write up that I could use on a website called rork.app.
Here’s exactly what I told it:
"Give me a detailed write up for a new website that I want to plug into rork.app. This website should be minimal design, and used for the purpose of helping people find great hikes in their city."
Then, I copied the reply Grok gave me and went to the rork.app and pasted it. Quick google sign in, then pressed enter. I then went back to the other work I was doing, and over the next six and a half minutes, without me being involved, Rork built out a full mobile app for Apple and Android and a website.
Yes, it really works. Here is me using it on my iPhone…
This cost me nothing except the idea, 60 seconds to prompt, copy and paste. The tool worked on it for six and a half minutes without me. It took me a lot longer to write this newsletter than it did to make a website and mobile app. If that doesn’t tell you that we are in a new era, nothing will.