Our story

A small studio with a short answer for bad ideas.

AppCraftNinja is a no-code development agency in Dresden, building for founders and small teams across Europe since 2022.

Abstract image of a workbench reimagined as software components, in violet and teal tones

We started in 2022 because we kept meeting the same person: a founder or a small-business owner whose process had outgrown a spreadsheet, who had been quoted six figures and six months for a custom build, and who just wanted the thing to work. No-code app development was the obvious fit, but nobody was being straight about its limits.

So that became the studio's whole position. We do no-code app development in Europe, remotely, from a small studio in Dresden, building with tools like Bubble and FlutterFlow when they are right, and saying so clearly when they are not. A fit check that always ends in a sale is not a fit check, and we would rather lose a project than sell you a build that falls over in a year.

How we keep it honest

We stay small on purpose, so the people who scope your build are the people who build it. We hand over edit access and documentation at the end, because a studio that keeps you dependent on it is solving the wrong problem. And we write up the hard calls in our Fit Files, so you can see how we think before you ever email us.

Who you work with

Two people lead the work, and they write everything here.

Lena Brückner leads internal-tools and back-end work. She spent six years in operations at a logistics software company before moving full-time into no-code, and she covers the spreadsheet-replacement and data-modelling side of what we do.

Tobias Reinhardt leads MVP and marketplace builds. He trained as a product engineer and shipped two early-stage startups before joining the studio, and he writes about where no-code strains and when to plan a migration.

Bring us the thing that's outgrown its spreadsheet.

We will tell you whether no-code fixes it, and what that would take.

Start a fit check