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This is awesome!! (disclaimer, I founded Bubble). We've actually had a few teams at YC using Bubble, either to get in or after, once they were in the program. It's awesome as it's a great validation for our technology. Thank you for doing the same in their hackathons!
Been great to see your progress!
This is awesome!! (disclaimer, I founded Bubble). We've actually had a few teams at YC using Bubble, either to get in or after, once they were in the program. It's awesome as it's a great validation for our technology. Thank you for doing the same in their hackathons!
Congrats man, we demoed a product at NYTM the same day as you guys (QuickMVP, now pivoted away from). Been great to see your progress!
this is based on https://bubble.is/ - I just took the tour, it looks pretty neat for creating a quick prototype. I suspect I could get to market with a half working prototype faster with this, and then hire a team to develop a "proper" app later on. I'm going to try it out for my next app as I am getting a bit sick of getting started each time with create-react-app and running into dependencies etc. etc.
I don't mean to sound elitist, but this isn't a Hackathon, its an idea-athon. Participants are limited to the small toolset of pre-built components provided to them, (Bubble in this case). The whole benefit of a hackathon is to think outside the box, but this actually encourages staying inside the box in order to produce a more polished product. You're getting a deep dive but completely missing any breadth.
I'm currently between jobs, and have a hard time figuring out what direction I want to go (and CAN go).
I see myself as a generalist with above-average it-competencies, but I'm not familiar enough with design to be a designer, nor skilled enough with programming to be a developer.
The past few months, I've been thinking that going the designer route might be the smarter career choice for me, as it is an area I have dabbled in before (both professionally and through education). Programming seems to hard a game to play catch-up in.
It seems like learning a visual framework like this would be an efficient way for a designer to create value for the business, both because it's fast, but also because it reduces the workload on the IT-team. I'm wondering if it would be a better idea to master a tool like this, and focus on design-related learning, that it is learning to program almost from scratch (even though it is the better choice in the long run i suppose).
I don't mean to sound elitist, but this isn't a Hackathon, its an idea-athon. Participants are limited to the small toolset of pre-built components provided to them, (Bubble in this case). The whole benefit of a hackathon is to think outside the box, but this actually encourages staying inside the box in order to produce a more polished product. You're getting a deep dive but completely missing any breadth.
There are other hackathons I've been to that emphasize deeply diving into a technology or tool. They both have their place. Given that YC is in the business of identifying startups, I don't think it's a surprise that it leans towards an "idea-athon" like you said.
I saw groups spin up AWS instances, throw up backends, and put on a frontend framework. It depends on the idea but for the most part, that's usually overkill. For web apps, I always static hardcode everything (yep, with jQuery) and then if time permits, productionize everything if it helps the demo be more slick.
I don't throw language like this around a lot, but this was actually very inspiring to me. I'm currently between jobs, and have a hard time figuring out what direction I want to go (and CAN go). I see myself as a generalist with above-average it-competencies, but I'm not familiar enough with design to be a designer, nor skilled enough with programming to be a developer. The past few months, I've been thinking that go…
There's a real need in the market for designers who can work better with developers and produce faster - tools like Zeplin.io are key here - Maybe thats where you position yourself?
I don't throw language like this around a lot, but this was actually very inspiring to me. I'm currently between jobs, and have a hard time figuring out what direction I want to go (and CAN go). I see myself as a generalist with above-average it-competencies, but I'm not familiar enough with design to be a designer, nor skilled enough with programming to be a developer. The past few months, I've been thinking that go…
Tons of tools like Webflow in this space - check out nocode.tech There's a real need in the market for designers who can work better with developers and produce faster - tools like Zeplin.io are key here - Maybe thats where you position yourself?