A starting prompt
Paste this into the builder and change the names, rules and colours to yours. It produces a working first version; everything after is refinement.
Why a small business app is not a shop
Checkout, stock, shipping, refunds — that is a platform, and there are platforms for it. What a showroom, a garage, a clinic, a florist or a tutor needs is simpler: show what you offer, show what is on right now, make it one tap to reach you. Built that way, the app has no payments, no accounts and no server, which means nothing to maintain and nothing to break.
The four tabs that cover almost everyone
- Catalogue (or Services, or Menu). Categories, items, photos, prices or "from" prices, a Save button.
- Offers (or News). A dated list you update. Ask for it to load from a URL so you can post an offer without an app update.
- Visit. Hours that highlight today, a map button, a call button, photos of the place.
- Contact. A short form with an optional photo — "send me a picture of your bathroom" — delivered by WhatsApp or email.
The builder recognises this pattern from a sentence like "an app for my business type" and will propose these tabs; confirm or rename them and it generates the lot.
Content you can change yourself
Ask for "catalogue and offers loaded from a Google Sheet" and the builder sets up a published-CSV loader. You then keep prices, photos (as image URLs) and offers in the sheet. This single decision is the difference between an app you update weekly and an app that goes stale.
The listing
A business app on Play needs a privacy policy URL even when it collects nothing — a one-page policy that says so is enough. Use your real business name as the app name, a photo of the shop front in the screenshots, and the address in the description. Local search on Play is weak, so most installs come from a QR code on the counter and a link on your Google Business profile.