Comment by motoxpro | Hacker News Reader

Comment by motoxpro | Hacker News Reader

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I think the problem is that you don't need a "mature" product to make millions of dollars.

It's similar to Shopify, I can put up a store in ~20 mins and start selling immediately. I would be extremely misguided to try to "build an platform" when that problem has already been solved.

Same with no-code. Why code it from scratch when it's been solved already? If you want to go super deep, sure. Seems like the hate comes from a cross of not-invented-here syndrome crossed with only 10 billion dollar companies in 2 years are cool.

Here's an example of a Bubble biz. https://goodgigs.app/

The problem here is that if Bubble gets _huge_ before solving the very obvious performance problems, the web is going to be in an even worse place than it is today. That Goodgigs site has a first load weight of over 5mb, when it could really be done in much less.

I truly appreciate the problem these platforms are trying to solve, but they're just not there yet. I wouldn't say it's easy to build a no-code platform, but it's much easier without the constraint of needing the output to have good performance - that's the hard part.

Lol, works as expected:

“Your browser was unable to load some necessary resources, contact your IT network administrator and ask them to allow access to

     dhtiece9044ep.cloudfront.net 
     dd7tel2830j4w.cloudfront.net/ 
     d1muf25xaso8hp.cloudfront.net”

I'm not affiliated with either site. Just thought it was cool. I don't think one could argue that building an MVP/SMB on a platform is more buggy than a 1-2 man shop building from scratch, though. At least not in the same amount of time.

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