Re:No-code startup Bubble raises $100M
by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:49AM
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> Can someone help me understand the no-code movement and what supposedly has changed in the last few years?
People (on the customer side) want automation that people who nominally aren't coders can build.
People (on the seller side) want sweet enterprise sales with maximum vendor lock-in.
Nothing, really, has changed... that's been the story forever.
> I know Microsoft tried to allow non-developers to create apps without developers
Hence, Excel, Access, PowerApps...
Also, really, the low-/no-code capabilities and empower analysts vs. devs to build tools or perform tasks that would otherwise take one-time dev or DBA time is also a selling point around a lot of the SQL Server ecosystem, e.g., SS[R/I/A]S.
> I know Microsoft tried to allow non-developers to create apps without developers
Yes, and have lots of success and lock-in from doing that.
> But failed!
No, no they didn't.
Oh, I mean sure, their no-/low-code tools require a lot of the same skills to build decent apps that arr required for other software development because coding was never the hard part. But, from MS’s point of view, that's irrelevant to the problem they are solving.
People (on the customer side) want automation that people who nominally aren't coders can build.
People (on the seller side) want sweet enterprise sales with maximum vendor lock-in.
Nothing, really, has changed... that's been the story forever.
> I know Microsoft tried to allow non-developers to create apps without developers
Hence, Excel, Access, PowerApps...
Also, really, the low-/no-code capabilities and empower analysts vs. devs to build tools or perform tasks that would otherwise take one-time dev or DBA time is also a selling point around a lot of the SQL Server ecosystem, e.g., SS[R/I/A]S.
> I know Microsoft tried to allow non-developers to create apps without developers
Yes, and have lots of success and lock-in from doing that.
> But failed!
No, no they didn't.
Oh, I mean sure, their no-/low-code tools require a lot of the same skills to build decent apps that arr required for other software development because coding was never the hard part. But, from MS’s point of view, that's irrelevant to the problem they are solving.