DabbleDB looks like it might be the next hot new web app.

Every so often I get asked ‘what is the latest hot app’ and after using DabbleDB I have a new answer to that question. DabbleDB is a platform that allows you to create applications online using a web interface. The sort of applications you would create and then use are what most of us normally hack together in a spreadsheet or using some other database application that is often complex. Example applications that I created in DabbleDB are a contacts list, where I can store, share and categorise my contacts, and also an issue tracking system where I can track bugs and change requests. Other examples on the DabbleDB website are a expense report application, a conference organising app, a scheduling app and a client invoicing application.

Simple tools that let you create useful solutions (that do just what you need) are pretty cool. It sounds like the UI and configuration wizards are intuitive and make the process easy. Tools like this really do make the old desktop application metaphor less and less meaningful. I wonder who will buy DabbleDB before it’s out of beta?