How to Make An App For Your Business (NO Code Needed!)

About this video

The presenter builds a custom app for the fictional David’s Donut Den, whose consulting arm for small bakeries has two problems: consultants forget to log their hours daily, losing money, and clients dispute invoices billed as a lump sum. Step one is finding a problem worth solving by listing problems and ranking them by how painful and how frequent they are. Step two uses partner Knack, an app builder and database in one, starting a 14-day free trial. He picks the freelance project management template (it mentions invoice tracking and takes about 10 seconds to set up), tests it as both freelancer and client, then adapts it: renaming the app, renaming ‘freelancer’ to ‘consultant’ across table fields, the time trackings table, user roles and page labels — some labels update automatically when a field name changes. He adds a required date field (date/time type, time unchecked) to time trackings, then surfaces it on the add/edit time tracking forms and on the client invoice details page so invoices break down charges by date. He then automates daily reminders with a Knack Flow: a scheduled trigger at 4:30pm, a search for all consultants, an iterator that checks each consultant’s timesheets for the current date, and a router that sends a Gmail reminder only when zero timesheets are found. Testing shows reminders for Abigail and Emily but not Robert Doe, who had a timesheet that day. The presenter says Knack charges a flat monthly rate for unlimited users starting at just $19 per month.

Key takeaways

• Start by ranking candidate problems by pain and frequency — building something nobody uses is presented as the biggest trap in app building
• Start from a close template in Knack rather than from scratch, test it as each user type, then rename tables, fields, roles and pages to match your business language
• Add a required date field to time entries and expose it on both the entry forms and the client invoice view to make invoices itemised and harder to dispute
• Knack Flows combine triggers and actions: a 4:30pm scheduled trigger, search and iterator steps, and a router can email only consultants with no timesheet today
• Creator states Knack offers unlimited users on a flat monthly rate starting at just $19 per month, with a 14-day free trial

Episode details: published April 23, 2025 · 15:15 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kevin Stratvert’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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