# How to Build a Glide App - For new Gliders
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-build-a-glide-app-for-new-gliders/41898
**Category:** Community Resources
**Tags:** tutorial
**Created:** [May 12, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-build-a-glide-app-for-new-gliders/41898 "2022-05-12T16:51:39Z")
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### Author:  [@Gideon\_Lahav\_Busines](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Gideon_Lahav_Busines)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-build-a-glide-app-for-new-gliders/41898/1 "2022-05-12T16:51:39Z")
#### Hello to all the new Gliders!
#### I made an article including a video for “How to Build a Glide App”.
#### Suitable for those who are in Glide for the first time.
> **[Gideon Lahav](https://gideonlahav.com/blog/)**
>
> Blog
## If you’re looking to create a Glide-free app, there are actually only four steps:
1. Organize your data in a spreadsheet
2. Customize the app design
3. Configure app functionality
4. Promote and share with others
### 1. Organize your data in a spreadsheet
There are two common cases at this point, either you have an existing sheet or you do not have one.
If you have such a sheet (Google Sheets, Excel, or [AirTable](https://airtable.com/invite/r/xERFkJQC)) make sure it is arranged to suit the construction of the app.
#### The sheet should be arranged as follows:
\*\*\* the First row will be titled, all other rows will be items \*\*\*
**Example:**
First row: Name | Role | phone
* * *
Second Row: Anonymous | Manager | 053000001
Third Row: Someone | Waiter | 052000001
Once you have arranged the sheet you can create a [new application in Glide](https://glide.grsm.io/main) by selecting your sheet
Demonstration of how to select a data source
### 2. Customize the app design
I personally prefer to first build the pages and elements I want to use including names for each of them.
In this way, I first build the process that my user will go through in the app (the user can also be just me in a personal app).
Only then will I start introducing the functionality that will make my design become the system I want it to be.
### 3. Set the app functionality
At this point, I highly recommend sitting down with a writing page and writ down to yourself what I want to happen when a particular button is pressed and what is important to me to have in order for it to work the way I want.
Then I can do one of two things, either I already know how to do the action I want or I’m looking for a guide on how to do what I want.
A guide can be found in several ways and I will expand on them in another post.
A. Find a guide in another post on [my blog](https://gideonlahav.com/en/blog/) (:
B. Look for a post on the [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/939478353111926) or in the [Glide community](https://glide.grsm.io/community) with the issue you are facing.
C. Publish a post with the question “How can I …” in one of the communities in the previous section.
D. Consult with an expert, I offer [up to 30 minutes of free consultation](https://calendly.com/gideon-lahav/first-consultation-with-gideon).
### 4. Promote and share with others
All that is left to do is advertise your app to the relevant market.
Glide apps are web apps (having a URL) so sharing them with others is easy and simple.
You can paste the link into your social network channels, website, WhatsApp, or anywhere else.
In conclusion, building applications in Glide is a relatively simple process to perform. No need for programmer knowledge or knowing complex functions, just try until you succeed.
[Video](https://youtu.be/85yGrregANc)
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### Author:  [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-build-a-glide-app-for-new-gliders/41898/2 "2022-05-12T17:43:22Z")
**Glide guides**
1. [Glide Library](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/start-here/welcome): Glide’s official manual.
2. [Glide community forum](https://community.glideapps.com/): search first, ask second.
3. [Glide Templates](https://www.glideapps.com/templates): not guides per se, but highly recommended to get a head start and from which to potentially learn.
I think these three – at the very least the first two – belong in the list of guides first and foremost, before anything else.
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### Author:  [@Gideon\_Lahav\_Busines](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Gideon_Lahav_Busines)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-build-a-glide-app-for-new-gliders/41898/3 "2022-05-12T18:35:21Z")
Thanks loved that