is only me having a slow experience? The concept is actually very interesting, it really makes it very easy to build websites for small businesses.
Twitter, but without code
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Re: Twitter, but without code
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Lemme just give my actual Twitter login details to some guy I've never heard of.
You can just type anything. Obviously we don't have access to twitter's db
Re: Twitter, but without code
#23Haven't been able to create an account, bugs out constantly and is very slow. Cool for prototyping but honestly it just highlights why we need engineers.
Re: Twitter, but without code
#24This may very well be a cool product - I like the idea of people being able to build things without code (how do they architect a DB?). 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 CT…
I totally agree with you, the website is really slow, most likely because it ended here...
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#26Don't post on HN of all places and claim we don't need programmers...
On a serious note, cool product but we've seen many many many of these sorts of platforms before. They never work outside a niche market simply because programming isn't about typing, but assembling logic.
Re: Twitter, but without code
#27Haven't we been here before?
http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf
The hard bit of software engineering is not knowing the syntax and typing the lines of code, but the design and problem solving, that abstractions can't solve.
You can make it easier to produce software with better tools, but the fundamental intellectual requirements of software design and implementation will never go away (until you have AIs genuinely powerful enough to write code themselves)
Re: Twitter, but without code
#28Twitter is serious about others not using twitter in their domains... "Please don't sue" isn't a real stance on this.
Re: Twitter, but without code
#29Oh neat, bubble.is is apparently a WYSIWYG no-code thing that the "developer" of this site says is going to replace software engineers.
Yeah, that worked out great for FrontPage didn't it?
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#30People who are commenting and saying that this doesn't make any sense are missing the real use case here: fast prototyping and iterations.
What product manager wouldn't like to be able to quickly test and iterate on concepts without bothering the developers?
I feel like if bubble.is can nail this, in a year 90% of "Show HN" product launches and new ideas on Product Hunt will be built with this tool.
It's the new and better launchrock as it's actually a reflection of the product.