⚠️ Has Anyone Else Noticed a Drop in Kodular Freelance Projects?

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I’ve noticed that I haven’t been getting many Kodular projects lately. Is it just me, or are other freelancers also seeing a drop in Kodular work?

Are any freelancers still getting continuous/regular projects related to Kodular?

Please share your experience or opinion here. I’d really like to know what others are experiencing.

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If you have no apps on Google Play (i.e. no earnings from apps) then depending only on AI2 projects won’t help for long. There is some websites where you can develop android apps for clients, you can get clients there. You can also start a youtube channel where you can teach app development from scratch. AND Yes there are very few clients for AI2 projects.

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I was expecting more responses to this post, but it seems the community isn’t very active. How can we get more people involved in discussions on topics like this?
overall my conclusion is:
is the takeaway that Kodular is still useful for creating your own apps, but freelance projects are increasingly shifting toward AI/vibe-coding platforms?

suggestion for kodular team:
They should focus on understanding why the popularity of such a good platform is declining, instead of just pushing updates and charging users for premium features.

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Interesting question !

I saw a lot of videos recently titled “No code/low code is dead” and explaining it by the emergence of vibe-coding

For me it’s the contrary : I’ve started a project of virgin cocktail recipes in Kodular few years ago, but the difficulty of having a lot of blocs displayed on the screen - due to screen performance and the lake of the functionality to search for a block (asked by the community since a long time) made me lose my motivation slowly.

Then Claude Code and Codex come and it improves seriously my pleasure to use Kodular :
It allows me to create my own extension !
Without the need of knowing to code in some specifics programming languages

So in 1-2 hours I created a Kotlin extension, that allows me to replace all my “functions” blocs (including tens/hundreds of blocks) by just 1 bloc from my new extension !

For example the remove of a recipe is just 1 bloc where I have to give the name of the recipe.
It makes the app building so much enjoyable :heart_eyes: and so much easier to maintain

I hope my experience can inspire other builders in their development

So here is my opinion :

  • Either app makers will definitely leave no code platforms, because building app with AI agent reduce the gap (in time, experience needed…) between no code and code that will not make no code not worthy
  • Either no code platforms take the train and exploit AI to make the app building more interesting for developers and help to esolve somes problems (as screen performance or bloc search as previously mentioned). And I think that no code app have really have something to do :
    builders take less time to read all the code lines, we want to check/organize/architect ours solutions, so we prefer to work with functionality blocs rather than code lines (depending of the context of course, I am a code lover :grin:)

Here is some ideas for Kodular and other no code platforms :

  • AI agent with which user can dialog in the interface that assembly code

  • Let AI agent access the user workspace to assembly bloc
    A Claude / ChatGPT plugin allowing the user to ask to the AI agent to assembly blocs

  • Extension builder that can be used directly in the website
    Set up a Kotlin project took 5 minutes to Claude code to setup, compilation don’t seems to need a lot of resources. Having an interface where user just have to describe the functions he wants (with inputs and outputs) that create the blocs and the .aix of the extension

  • Convert a group of bloc in a function
    Right-click on a group → convert in a group of blocs, then right click on it again → split. It will reduce the number of blocks displayed on the screen so improve performances and make the maintenance easier

  • Allow to use global functions across the screens

I hope this will give somes good ideas to Kodular / App Inventor, and I am looking forward to have the community opinion :slightly_smiling_face:

I have a little experience and can offer some technical help and tips about AI’s integration

Simon

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To answer the original question: yes

But I think Kodular has a unique position and possibility.

Coding with AI takes away a lot of the granularity and ability for the non-technical programmer or app creator to see and have control over things that are happening in their app, to understand the code and it is liable to producing unsecure code.

Conversely putting together lots of blocks and forming the logic is time consuming.

If Kodular can integrate AI aided app design into the block builder system. It would be positioned very uniquely in the market as it would offer users a more interactive way to control and steer the design of their own app whilst benefitting from the AI automation bring the logic together

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