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This wont work for tech focused startups. Google could never exist without writing a single line of code. Nor could Dropbox. etc... Yeah maybe a retail/ecommer

by semerda 13y ago

This wont work for tech focused startups. Google could never exist without writing a single line of code. Nor could Dropbox. etc... Yeah maybe a retail/ecommerce website sticky taped using off the shelf parts with glue, but definitely no tech startup. A landing page offering something which isn't built yet might also work using wordpress et al. However you still need some tech knowledge to get this setup. Being in a position to build an idea is a lot more powerful then raving on about not needing to write code to build a startup. For those that have read Founders at Work will know that ideas change. This means iterations. Many many iterations. Very fast. Testing the waters with a MVP... usually that requires writing code. Unless of course you want to move slow then yeah don't write code and hope for the best with the glue.

spamizbad 13y ago
Didn't dropbox start life as a slide deck on Drew Houston's laptop until he got matched up with some (very skilled) programmers from MIT? I seem to remember him pitching it before he even had a tech team assembled.
- sebg 13y ago
  Drew Houston coded the first version by himself. From http://www.wired.com/business/2013/09/dropbox-2/ http://www.wired.com/business/2013/09/dropbox-2/ - "Houston started coding a version of what would become Dropbox’s signature folder, the portal to an app that magically holds and syncs the same files on every computer and mobile device where you install it...." Also, if you look at his YC application, it is clear that he had written the first version. -> YC application => https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27532820/app.html https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27532820/app.html