No-code Bubble raises $100M to make technical co-founders obsolete

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Credit to Bubble for raising such a large amount after years of hard work and dedication. I admire their tenacity, community and product but I don't agree with the sentiment 'make tech cofounders obsolete'. Why do you want to make a highly skilled individual obsolete?

I feel, in many ways, this sentimentalism is what negatively affects the no-code / low-code industry. We need developers and non-developers to work together, not make the other redundant.

In the act of transparency, I am the cofounder of Budibase [1], an open source low code platform, and have felt the unease this type of sentiment brings to young developers.

At the same time, a tool like Bubble is incredibly empowering, and I want to to make it clear, I don't have any issues with the product, just the sentiment in the title of this article.

[1] https://github.com/Budibase/budibase

From the article: "Computer science is a difficult world".

No, actually it is very easy. It turns out the real world is actually insanely complex, sometimes needlessly so.

I suspect entrepreneurs are being held back by very complex and burdensome regulations, rather than how to write a hashmap of Strings and Integers.

An interesting choice in name for a company raising $100M on a dream.

What happens when the no-code tool breaks? What happens when it doesn't do what I want it to do?

I agree. I prefer if they went down the route of 'empowering the next generation of tech cofounders' or something. But don't raise money to make a position obsolete

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