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No-code startup Bubble raises $100M

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Re: No-code startup Bubble raises $100M

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Post by zubairlk »

rattray wrote: post #227
zubairlk wrote: post #198

It seems like all the comments here are from non bubble users. We have worked on over 20 client projects in the past 1.5 years using bubble. Specialising exclusively in bubble now. A way to describe the platform would be WordPress for Web Apps. There was a census recently. ~75% clients are startup/MVPs ~25% SME making business tooling Out client portfolio is similar. I've hired fresh graduates in Pakistan, trained th…

What is your most complex Bubble app? How hard is it to make changes to it?

So a marketplace booking system with payments would be that.

Sports venue sign up and configure their fields (5v5 indoor, 11v11), onboard to Stripe Connect Express. Public booking page for the venue.

Players booking and reserving. Sharing invite URL with other players who can add themselves to the roster and make payments.

Venue sees bookings and payments.

This one is half done and I'm really excited about it.

Re: No-code startup Bubble raises $100M

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Post by zubairlk »

rattray wrote: post #226
zubairlk wrote: post #198

It seems like all the comments here are from non bubble users. We have worked on over 20 client projects in the past 1.5 years using bubble. Specialising exclusively in bubble now. A way to describe the platform would be WordPress for Web Apps. There was a census recently. ~75% clients are startup/MVPs ~25% SME making business tooling Out client portfolio is similar. I've hired fresh graduates in Pakistan, trained th…

What tools did your agency use before Bubble?

I left my job (Embedded software engineer, linux, raspberrypi, no web, no javascript) to dive into NoCode and started bubble freelancing and then quickly a bubble agency by hiring/building a team in Pakistan..

Tried a few other platforms (wappler, adalo) but not much luck. Focusing only on bubble now.

Re: No-code startup Bubble raises $100M

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goto11 wrote: post #199
yourenotsmart wrote: post #164

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> Can someone help me understand the no-code movement and what supposedly has changed in the last few years? It's a basic error of attribution. We need complex systems, and we build them typically by text source, which is the most efficient way of coding a system (as we've found over the decades). Because the source looks arcane to an untrained eye, people attribute the complexity to the form of the code: text source…

I remember similar sentiments among geeks when GUI's became more commonplace compared to command line interfaces like DOS. But the reality is that for the majority of people using a GUI is much easier than a text based interface. A full-blown general purpose text-based programming language is of course always more powerful, but a task-specific GUI can be much more efficient for the particular tasks they are designed…

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Re: No-code startup Bubble raises $100M

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Post by marcosdumay »

nexuist wrote: post #51
zkldi wrote: post #43

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> Declarative goal based development. You type in English what you want the application to do, Isn't that just code? I'm convinced that for sufficiently complex "no-code" solutions, you just end up with a poor mans programming language.

No, because programming wraps around the instruction-based model that processors use to execute programs. When you elevator pitch a product, you don't give them a list of instructions the product carries out, you tell them what the product does in broad terms. The theoretical next level of programming is being able to pitch your software to the computer, having it build it in real time, and playing around and tweakin…

> programming wraps around the instruction-based model that processors use to execute programs

Nope. There is more to programing than the imperative paradigm.

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macando wrote: post #236
zubairlk wrote: post #198

It seems like all the comments here are from non bubble users. We have worked on over 20 client projects in the past 1.5 years using bubble. Specialising exclusively in bubble now. A way to describe the platform would be WordPress for Web Apps. There was a census recently. ~75% clients are startup/MVPs ~25% SME making business tooling Out client portfolio is similar. I've hired fresh graduates in Pakistan, trained th…

"We have worked on 30+ projects in bubble.io." "I'm afraid many are only showable on a Zoom call. Please book a consultation call and I'll share a project that aligns closest with what your project." 30 projects 0 images 0 gifs 0 videos 0 company names 0 case studies Hmmmmm.

New platform, same old consulting tactics.

Re: No-code startup Bubble raises $100M

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Post by yourenotsmart »

goto11 wrote: post #199
yourenotsmart wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Can someone help me understand the no-code movement and what supposedly has changed in the last few years? It's a basic error of attribution. We need complex systems, and we build them typically by text source, which is the most efficient way of coding a system (as we've found over the decades). Because the source looks arcane to an untrained eye, people attribute the complexity to the form of the code: text source…

I remember similar sentiments among geeks when GUI's became more commonplace compared to command line interfaces like DOS. But the reality is that for the majority of people using a GUI is much easier than a text based interface. A full-blown general purpose text-based programming language is of course always more powerful, but a task-specific GUI can be much more efficient for the particular tasks they are designed…

Command-line interface isn't simply text, it's a conversational UI.

People who claimed GUI lost something were right, and that's why what was lost keeps coming back and it's still with us.

Google Search, Siri / Google Assistant, and the prompts in almost any video/graphics/3D-modeling software or other professional packages, not to mention the recent craze in "chat bots", all of those are essentially CLI reborn.

Re: No-code startup Bubble raises $100M

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Post by zubairlk »

zubairlk wrote: post #283
bencollier49 wrote: post #228

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Can you give us an example of one of the 30 apps (as per your website) so we can look at it?

app.konstructly.com (2 sided marketplace. Internal profile and dashboard. In app messaging. Job posting and hiring) https://www.divertsessions.com/pages/challenges-app (Instagram for action sports. App in app store is bubble by us) Lots of business tooling ones that are a bit more sensitive. Booking systems for SMEs.

We also made the interactive dashboard on this page

https://www.islamicfinanceguru.com/halal-investments/

This is iframed

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Post by ramraj07 »

rory wrote: post #243
lenkite wrote: post #169

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I know excellent mathematicians who cannot code. The guy can solve Math Olympiad problems and puzzles but he despises coding. Old school chalk/board or pencil/paper for him all the way.

Are they not able to learn to code though, or is it simply a matter of comfort and preference?

A professor I know solves the quantum mechanical equations of metabolites to predict their MR spectrum to optimize their pulse sequence, and then does it directly on patients.

His QC simulation code in matlab would write the output of each iteration to a file because he didn’t optimize the object sizes. A simulation that should take an hour now takes 20 lol. It’s probably like in the Sherlock show how Holmes says he doesn’t want to waste neurons memorizing constellations.

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