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Re: Twitter, but without code

#41
"Ran into a temporary bug..." lol

Yay for frontpage 2.0. All this seems to do is make it easier for people to not better themselves. "What's this? I can make a website without having to learn anything?! Great! Let me put a million animated gifs on here!"

Re: Twitter, but without code

#42
post #13

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…

No man, who needs engineers now. We can make a registration button that gives an error. That's all you really need to write a website isn't it?

Re: Twitter, but without code

#44
I kinda have an issue with the openning statement on the site. It's almost a threat, saying that most programmers will lose their jobs and have to do other things.

It's an interesting concept, but the slowness and buginess of the site only show why that will never happen.

It's good at creating prototypes/static interfaces, but bubble.is most likely will not be the future of programming for the web.

Most sites rely on a complete infrastructure of networks, and unless you can provide a really solid PaaS creator for this, and charge money for the actual infrastructure, most users wont take it seriously. Personally I probably wont use it, but it might be nice for some people on Shark Tank :)

Re: Twitter, but without code

#46
I'll wait until the site is responding faster/not erroring to be sure but if it's really as it appears, this is amazing. Attractive customizable design is one thing, but real logins, real graph relationships, real feeds, real filtering for mentions, user photo uploads, potentially real messaging, all without any coding would be (is?) really amazing and covers 99% of all the site creations any laymen could want.

It doesn't need to scale especially well for the vast majority of customers. If your first reaction is "this doesn't scale" or "this doesn't eliminate programmers" you have to be a professional point-misser. I'd want to see how intuitive the interface for making this is but it's cool stuff, and as it matures I'm sure will only get more interesting.

Re: Twitter, but without code

#47

"Ran into a temporary bug..." lol Yay for frontpage 2.0. All this seems to do is make it easier for people to not better themselves. "What's this? I can make a website without having to learn anything?! Great! Let me put a million animated gifs on here!"

Haha bubble's site did the same thing. Seems like a stable platform.

Re: Twitter, but without code

#48
>Because in 2020 most programmers won't be engineers. They will be doctors, teachers, farmers, executives...

I do not like this narrative at all, and it's becoming pretty common. Do you imagine a doctor saying "Don't worry, in 2020 most physicians won't be doctors, they will be engineers, teachers, farmers, executives"?

Re: Twitter, but without code

#49
Nice! I often face the problem of wanting to demoing prototypes of ideas, and coding takes too long. Eventually bubble could add auto-scaling when the app is used by many users, and have a pay model similar to aws.

Re: Twitter, but without code

#50
I liked their demo, but honestly we've seen this before. Even with tools like Unreal you still need to write code if you want to make genuinely good games. Same thing applies to stuff like GameMaker.

Build apps without coding - since the 90's.

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