Five years ago, if you wanted to build a mobile app, the path was pretty much fixed. You either learned to code yourself - which took months or years - or you hired a development team and handed over a budget that would make most early-stage founders genuinely uncomfortable. There was no third option. The barrier to entry was high by design, and the people who cleared it were either technically skilled or financially well-resourced. Most founders were neither, which meant most ideas never got built at all. That world still exists in the memory of anyone who went through it. The long agency timelines. The scope creep. The endless back-and-forth over wireframes that somehow took three weeks to produce. The moment you realized that your developer's definition of "almost done" and your definition of "almost done" were separated by about six weeks of additional work. If you built an app five years ago, you probably have at least one story like this. What has changed since then is not just the tools.…