Build hybrid apps with the Ionic Creator

From the Site.<p>&quot;Totally free!<p>We want to help more web and mobile developers become hybrid developers with Ionic. Having great tools like Creator will lower the bar for getting started with mobile development in general, and we love that!<p>To achieve this dream, we have decided to make the Ionic Creator 100% free. While we might charge in the future for heavy usage, we will always have a free version of Creator available, so you can quickly build Ionic and Cordova apps.&quot;

If only it were actually this easy to set up (<a href="http://ionicframework.com/getting-started/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ionicframework.com&#x2F;getting-started&#x2F;</a>) - just spent 45 mins trying to get it working with an android target on an ubuntu box and I&#x27;ve had enough, uninstalling everything

Surely this approach has gotta get some serious uptake soon&#x2F;finally? For your average CRUD app, coding in iOS and Android (and web) makes little sense. Titanium was promising before it made the big shift to Alloy. Jquery Mobile is oddly &quot;meh&quot;. Ionic looks quite nice so far.<p>I see 37 Signals is making this approach work, too (albeit with different tools): <a href="http://signalvnoise.com/posts/3766-hybrid-how-we-took-basecamp-multi-platform-with-a-tiny-team" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;signalvnoise.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;3766-hybrid-how-we-took-baseca...</a>

I&#x27;m not familiar with Ionic. It describes itself as a framework for Hybrid apps, which sounds interesting, but all I can see described on the website is html and css. Anyone mind enlightening me on what that means here?

I cant&#x27;t find either pricing or other hints of a valid business model anywhere. That makes me a bit wary to try it out - how long can ionic exist without income?

&gt; Sign up below for early access to the Creator beta.<p>Annoying.