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I built a Reddit clone in 2 weeks using Bubble: nocode

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No, it's not a "clone". It's fatally (unusably) slow, apparently doesn't work on mobile, and you have to sign up to see more than one page of it.

Nocode is a myth.

Also there's no way this is affordable once you exceed the free tier.

The Thing with "build x in y weeks": cornercases, load - but mostly, leaving out the whole planing and wire framing and the iterative process that lead to the end goal. Also new technology; everytimeI refractorate with a new technology I am amazed how much quicker it is, how much more ergonomically it is from a developer perspective.

Doesn’t work on mobile. Is that a limitation with this no-code platform or just not implemented?

That's really cool, unfortunately you have to sign-in just to view a thread. But my real criticism is that it's really slow. It could be that this is because the creator of Reggit is in a free or low-tier plan.

Seems like a mistake for Bubble - give away a free plan but make it slow so people need to update... but in the end you end up giving the impression that all Bubble applications are very slow.

Kind of reminds me of Unity Game Engine - the free version requires you to have a Unity logo play before starting up the game, but it can be removed in a paid version. As a result, most games that do have the logo, are low quality games made with the free edition, whereas solid quality games remove the logo so you don't know they were made with Unity.

This is a far analogy to what we are discussing here: as far as I can tell, the games with the logo are not made slower on purpose by the Unity team. Bubble offers whitelabeling and increased performance as separate features in their paid plans (for the latter you need to pay $129 per month for each project).

Because maybe they are slow. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like the whole thing is hosted by them, so it would be hard to measure independently whether it's software throttling, hardware load or just inherent limitations of the platform.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28085518

How do these no code tools solve migrating data / db migrations?

I suppose nosql for db migrations makes things a lot easier.

You just never upgrade. Instead you toss your old app and rebuild from scratch with the new tool de jour ;)

Yeah, sounds like the new normal

This is a real pain typically.

But, Bubble has an API connector that can query data in and out a third party data source (in my case its a Postgres that I access over REST calls).

Bubble's data layer is terribly slow. I'd recommend maintaining the bulk of your data in an efficient self-hosted or managed instance

So, use code instead of no-code.

Vicious circle :p

nocode is terrible and ill never accept it.

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