App development shop V/One is giving away 50,000 free mobile app builds to budding LA mobile businesses

The Los Angeles-based app development shop, V/One, is giving away 50,000 free mobile app builds through the rest of April as the company officially launches its platform for would-be, LA-based mobile app moguls.

Since its soft launch, December 20th of last year, the app development company has built over 100 new applications.

The company's December launch featured an "app accelerator" and offered a guidebook for people who wanted to develop mobile applications to work with the development shop on early applications.

Under the terms of the development agreement, wannabe app creators get their application for free as long as they sign up for the monthly hosting service. "They can walk away at any time and cancel the hosting if they don't want the app anymore. Builds of the apps will be delivered around 60 days upon signing up," said V One founder, Jeremy Redman.

For founder Jeremy Redman, V/One was a business that solved a problem he had faced himself as an entrepreneur just starting out, but lacking the technical experience to build his own applications.

"I had an app idea but no real idea how to executive it. I'm non-technical, meaning I can't code. I tried finding a technical co-founder but got abandoned when things got tough. Dev shops were too expensive and on the verge of predatory, and cookie cutter builders don't address the designs I had in mind," Redman said. "But, I wasn't going to let someone tell me I couldn't be a tech entrepreneur."

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The app development toolkit that V One uses was built entirely in-house to automate the build process on the back end, says Redman.

For small businesses, the plan is to charge $297 per month for app development and customization along with any future builds, hosting, and product support and maintenance. The company's more robust place is a $997 per month package. Both offer the option to cancel anytime with the ability to own the code for the app.

"So far the only limitations are one's creativity. Essentially speaking, if you can design it it can be made a functional app in our builder," Redman wrote in an email. "If I had to put a constraint on it I would say we are not good at AR/VR and machine learning and some obscure features 99% of people don't need [or] want."

Redman thinks that roughly 98% of an app can be built using the company's toolkit and then the final bit of coding and development (specifically for augmented or virtual reality - or other components) can be added in a final customization.

"If customers can describe their idea in one, clear sentence then it can be made in our builder and it can be made quickly," Redman wrote. "What we don't do is take pages and pages of details and make an app out of it. They can fill in the details later."

V One uses a cross-platform framework, serverless technology and modern development practices to generate apps using an easy to use app builder, the company said. Users can think of it like Wix or WordPress for mobile app development.

"Never before has someone been able to build an app from just typing their idea out, let alone for this low a cost," says Redman.