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Wow this has been a disappointing discussion up to now, with most commenting on how much visual coding tools suck. That's not the take away here, at all. A fre
by le-mark 9y ago
Wow this has been a disappointing discussion up to now, with most commenting on how much visual coding tools suck. That's not the take away here, at all.
A frequently asked question is "where is Access for the Web?", closing aligned with "what happened to 4GL languages and tools" or "where are the RAD (rapid application development) app builders for the web?". This is an answer; they've hit $100k monthly. They have found a market where many, many similar projects (I've listed them here before) have not. The relevant and amazing thing is how? How have they succeeded where so many others have failed?
The interview gives some answers:
He (Josh) was in New York, and everyone, literally everyone, was asking him to be their tech co-founder to start a business.
We started "recruiting" users at tech meetups in New York. With the startup wave, everybody was looking for a tech co-founder, and there were plenty of co-founder-dating meetups. ... We went there and told people that while we couldn't be their tech co-founders, they could use Bubble, as it would allow them build the whole thing themselves.
The following year (2013) we did a pilot at Harvard Business School, which I had just graduated from. Their first year entrepreneurship class required students to build something under a very tight budget, and Bubble was a good solution for this.
Answer; these guys had a kick ass network and expanded it. They had direct access to people in their market who were starving for this type of app.
- JVIDEL 9y agoTBH (and it is an impressive app) there isn't much competition, not much going on despite coding-as-a-job being hammered in every article even remotely related to education and not just an extra skill but a vital one. And in those meetups you tend to find a lot of people looking for someone to code their ideas. These guys put a lemonade stand in the middle of the desert.
- mcguire 9y agoThe question then is, what happens when they drink the lemonade? Thirst quenching? Butterflies and rainbows? Diarrhea? Cirrhosis? When you start building a normally-complicated application that isn't going to be thrown away at the end of the semester, well, then what?
- delhanty 9y agoPerhaps the point of Bubbles is product validation for a semi-technical founder without having to hire someone who can code.