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Your comment sounds like something straight out of a Show HN, not a thread about a 5 year old service with 100,000 users and $100k in monthly revenues. There's
by Kiro 9y ago
Your comment sounds like something straight out of a Show HN, not a thread about a 5 year old service with 100,000 users and $100k in monthly revenues.
There's obviously a big demand for this so either you're wrong or people using it are actually programmers.
- verletx64 9y ago> people using it are actually programmers Kind of wouldn't surprise me if the user numbers had a decent sized (probably not majority) programmer contingent; these kinds of services are a good way to get a quick prototype out, before you legit build something.
- tomclive 9y agoI agree. I've seen people discussing sketching out an MVP with Bubble.is and I can see how something like this could be useful to put together a demo.
- threatofrain 9y agoI can imagine that this does appeal to programmers as I imagine some companies have already built internal tools to the same affect for rapid prototyping.
- rjzzleep 9y agoI just took a quick look at it and GP has a simple misunderstanding here. When they say you don't have to be a coder that doesn't mean the target market is my girlfriend who has no interest in this whatsoever(she's a doctor). The target market is those people that sit in places like the AWS loft or places like that, listen to tech talks and wish they had a coder to build their ideas for free. Most of them already know what an API is. Even if you don't use the external data sources, what bubble provides is somewhat enough to win hackathons and get funding provided you can present and sell. I've seen a bunch of traders, business people and otherwise people with random ideas that fit in that group. So yes, not at all surprised they make that much money.
- flogic 9y agoAt what point do you call someone a programmer? They seem to be using "knowing how to code in a traditional programming language". However, I would not use that definition. Most of what we do though is thinking about a problem and how that relates to what computers do. My take would be that everyone actually using this tool either is a programmer or by the nature of what they're doing soon will be.
- mathgeek 9y ago> Most of what we do though is thinking about a problem and how that relates to what computers do. Ah... now, in my mind, you're getting into Software Engineer territory. Programmer, to me, simply means you know how to make a computer do what you want. That can be "knowing how to search for someone else's code that makes the computer do what you want" at times. Once you get into thinking about the problem and how that related to what computers do, you're getting out of that generic "programmer" term and into engineering.
- nurettin 9y agoI'd call my 7 year old C= 64 hacker self a programmer. The real distinction comes from being a professional or not. If you are a pro, you would know the industry, the hardware, how things communicate, how and why to scale and report things at a higher level, because you've been exposed to the needs and wants of an Enterprise.