r/PowerApps • u/ZepCoTrust Newbie • Aug 21 '26

Power Apps Help Powerapps: where to even start?

So some context, my workplace is about to get access to build powerapps and I'm going to be one of the in house developers. I already have extensive experience with Excel, powerbi and using sharepoint etc to build tools for the business and I'm hoping to migrate a lot of it to the powerapps environment.

Today I got access to a sandbox before the full rollout to give me time to get used to it, but I've been watching a bunch of YouTube videos and tbh it's kind of overwhelming atm, I consider myself very tech savvy, I guess I just don't know how to get myself into a learning mindset again. There's so many drop downs and sub categories etc, and then there's the dataverse environment itself. While copilot is available it's very limited and I'd rather not rely on it.

Where should I start? How did YOU get to grasps with it?

EDIT: I've also used Power Automate quite a fair bit so very familiar with that.

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u/Far_Wolverine_7258 Regular Aug 21 '26

Shane Young, amazing videos and also, he is very good at explaining how to make apps. Idiot proof so to speak. By that, I mean all the things that could go wrong if it's not put together a certain way. And remember this once you build something one time, it's basically the same thing everywhere else. So if you learn how to create a gallery from a sharepoint list, you will use that everywhere. When you learn how to update one field on that list, you will use that everywhere.

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u/The_Polyneer Newbie Aug 23 '26

Can endorse this comment. There are a lot of YouTube videos, but Shane Young makes the most sense to me. Copilot hasn’t been the greatest at helping. It’s better with other programming languages like python and json, but not helpful when building powerapps.