Building Nomii Without the Builder

We’ve been building Nomii , a family memory keepsake app for parents, for a while now. How we build it has changed a lot in that time. We started in a low-code app builder. These days it’s React Native in a repo we own, with Cursor and a pile of AI tools doing most of the typing. It wasn’t a dramatic break, more a gradual shift. The product got clearer, our needs got more specific, and the tooling…