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Imagine if to build a new apartment complex, you had to pay a team to copy and reassemble the foundation, walls, electricity, and plumbing from neighboring complexes\\u2014and then build an original penthouse on top. It seems a bit ridiculous, but this is how most companies design custom apps. They pay engineering teams to stitch together most of the app with open source pieces and then fill out the remaining 10\\u201320 percent with original code. It\\u2019s costly, redundant work. 

In 2016, Anand Kulkarni wondered if there was a way to automate this process. The result became Crowdbotics, a tech startup that lets anyone create React Native and Django apps without coding in its basic form. 

On this edition of UpTech Report, Anand discusses how this idea started and how the technology works, including their startling newest feature\\u2014the ability to describe your desired app to their AI assistant in natural language and then have the system build it for you.