Building Custom Apps with Glide : Turn Spreadsheets and Databases into AI-Powered Business Apps Without Code
Overview
For experienced operators, analysts, no-code builders, and technical product leaders, this book shows how to turn Glide into a serious application platform rather than a rapid prototyping toy. It is written for readers who already understand business systems and data problems, and want a disciplined way to build internal tools, portals, dashboards, and workflow apps that are reliable, scalable, and increasingly AI-enabled.
Across the book, you will move from app scoping and process design into storage strategy, data modeling, relations, queries, permissions, interface composition, forms, actions, and full record lifecycles. You will learn how to choose between Glide Tables, Big Tables, spreadsheets, Airtable, and SQL; how to enforce row-level access; how to automate multi-step business processes; and how to apply Glide AI, including structured extraction with Text to JSON, without sacrificing control or trustworthiness.
What sets this book apart is its architectural depth and operational focus. Rather than repeating basic builder tutorials, it treats Glide as a production business platform and emphasizes decision frameworks, trade-offs, failure modes, and governance. The result is a practical guide for designing apps that not only work on day one, but continue to hold up as data volume, user count, automation, and organizational dependence grow.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798182887878
- ISBN-10: 9798182887878
- Publisher: Hitex Press
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.62 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.88 pounds
- Page Count: 296
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