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The Million-Dollar App and the Price of an Edit
A fitness creator spent years and, by his account, more than $1 million on a custom app. Passion.io offered him a less glamorous prize: the power to fix the next thing himself.
Modo Labs
Modo Labs is a Boston-based software company that lets universities and enterprises build branded mobile and web apps without deep engineering teams. Born from an open-source MIT project, its no-code/low-code platform stitches together backend systems - student records, HR, calendars, building controls - into one personalized digital experience for campuses and workplaces. Its Modo Campus and Modo Workplace products serve organizations across 100+ countries, and the company was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Workplace Experience Applications.
Woz
Woz is a San Francisco AI platform that acts like a technical cofounder in the cloud - designing, coding, testing, deploying, and maintaining production-ready mobile apps for non-technical founders. Unlike no-code tools that stop at prototypes, Woz combines specialized AI agents with human engineering review to ship real, business-ready apps straight to the app store. Founded by MIT engineers Ben Collins and Brad Eckert, the YC W25 company raised $6M in seed funding in October 2025.
Airtable
Airtable is a San Francisco software company that turned the humble spreadsheet into a flexible app platform, letting non-engineers build relational databases, interfaces, and automated workflows without code. Founded in 2012 and launched publicly in 2015, it now serves more than 500,000 organizations - including the majority of the Fortune 100 - and has refounded itself as an AI-native app platform anchored by its conversational builder, Omni.