In a time when technology is rapidly changing, the MIT App Inventor provides an excellent example of how to democratize the process of creation.

A software engineer built an app for tracking her weight-loss shots. In 8 months, it's crossed 100,000 downloads and has $2 million from VCs.

After struggling for almost six months to become somewhat proficient at Python, I was extremely impressed with how much I could do using the MIT App Inventor platform.