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> if we ever for some reason have to close down shop, we will release the Bubble source code under an open-source license so that you can set up your own Bubble server and keep your app running That's quite a nice thing to read. I hope more people start committing to this.
The level of detail in this makes me doubt the claim (0 lines of code), but assuming it is true: really well done. For those who are wondering if its just a login page: you can register an account (login is automatic on registration, and email verification is not required). The entire UI is almost exactly same as twitter. Link to the framework used: https://bubble.is/
Too bad all those engineers are going to be farmers by 2020 though. Because when your prototype gets popular, I doubt Bubble.is can handle all the things that actually make your app run at scale (the deployments, maintenance, database, etc management programming that is really what makes apps like Twitter run .. not just the tiny html/css/js stack that the client plays with).
EDIT: To clarify that, I don't mean that in a nasty, snarky way. VB drove a lot of business software and got huge numbers of people writing software, many of whom weren't employed as developers.
It's Visual Basic for the web then? EDIT: To clarify that, I don't mean that in a nasty, snarky way. VB drove a lot of business software and got huge numbers of people writing software, many of whom weren't employed as developers.
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A lot of people are signing up though. Doens't work for you?
Ah, you should specify that you need to make an account. For some reason I was thinking this might somehow attempt to do SSO and grab your actual twitter data
It would be great if there was a link to explore without logging in, because I don't feel particularly compelled to give my details to this site.
So, it lets you prototype apps. That is awesome. Too bad all those engineers are going to be farmers by 2020 though. Because when your prototype gets popular, I doubt Bubble.is can handle all the things that actually make your app run at scale (the deployments, maintenance, database, etc management programming that is really what makes apps like Twitter run .. not just the tiny html/css/js stack that the client plays…
Of course, as a lot of people are pointing out, this approach doesn't scale very well. To be fair, neither did the original Twitter, and it was built on Rails. They're different levels of scale, but if all you really need is a proof of concept this could solve the "How do I find a CTO so we can build a quick app and see if anyone cares?" problem.
I'd be careful pitching it (yet) as a "we'll never need engineers again" product, as I don't think that's the case; it is incredibly slow, and it errored out for me three times (http://take.ms/iwa9W). I still haven't been able to get in.