Earlier this week my weekly gaming group was playing Marvel Champions: The Card Game. We’ve been using its cardboard damage dials to track damage and threat, but frankly we’ve been pampered by Gloomhaven Secretariat when we play Frosthaven, and I missed that level of convenience when playing Marvel Champions. I boasted I could make a basic web app for next week. That night when I got home, the top link on Hacker News just happened to be this story:

ArsTechnica: I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps, and I can’t stop

I bookmarked that and returned to it the next morning. Kevin Purdy gushed about Glide, a no-code web app creation tool he’s enjoying. It looked like a perfect tool for the job, and long story short, in far less than an hour, I created a totally functional collaborative web app for my gaming group, completely free, that tracks damage and threat levels in real-time.

My friend’s first reaction to seeing that made my day…

Looks awesome. Simplistic and functional

If you need a simple (or possibly even a not-so-simple) mobile web app, definitely take a look at Glide. It was incredibly easy to use, and had so many surprisingly powerful capabilities I didn’t need for this tiny app. I’ll probably use it for more ideas in the future, gaming-related or otherwise.

Here’s what the app looked like inside the Glide editor:

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