alt Hacker NewsI think the main difficulty is deployment. Grandma wants that recipe manager to be available to her family 24x7. How can she deploy it easily for free or very low cost? If there were a modern Hypercard, I think the key to its success would be making deployment extremely simple, reliable, and safe.
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How about a very reliable device with an interface that even a child can understand, deployment process that consists of only one action, and no upkeep costs? Like, for example, a notebook... Not everything has to be computerized or software.
NextJS with Neon on Vercel has a capable free tier, and there's enough training data that LLMs are decent at it. If Grandma is that interested in building an app, I'm sure she'd love to spend a few hours with a grandkid to set things up and then being taught how to vibe code (and also how to call said grand kid for help).
There are platforms like Observable and Repl.It that just let you deploy code/data pretty quickly.