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something about "creating" projects using hacked-together APIs then selling the (seemingly never original) result as if it has any real worth makes me genuinely upset.

I feel as if I am looking at an alien civilization's attempt at emulating entrepreneurship, or a bizarre GPT-3 social experiment.

I think of it as a bigger company buying a validated POC with a ready customer base.

>I feel as if I am looking at an alien civilization's attempt at emulating entrepreneurship, or a bizarre GPT-3 social experiment.

This same crowd will also preach product-market fit like it's religion. It's literally a race to throw crap at the wall, hype it, and see what sticks. A similar pattern also plays out a little differently and to a lesser degree among startups in respectable accelerators with VC backing.

I think it serves a very useful purpose, though: hypercompetition. Any space that shows promise these days is quickly oversaturated with products such that there can be no clear winner. This is actually a really good thing depending on how you look at it, because it raises standards required to win to a very high level. That in turn filters out virtually everything, including products that we would've previously considered good enough to win the space.

Why? What is "real worth" in your view? These little companies have a handful of paying customers who have decided that there is some value there. That validates the idea, and if you're skilled at scaling businesses up, why not buy a proven out idea with some existing customer relationships.

I mean, the fact that somebody bought it means it's /in theory/ of some value, but draping it in the guise of "Solving a problem in an industry you are familiar with"[0] when it's all clearly meaningless cruft is an uncomfortable thing to view.

I equate this stuff to writing a script that automatically upkeeps a social media account so you can leverage it to get free meals[1]. not wrong, neccesarily, but certainly not something you should be proud of or frame outside of "check out this cool low-effort money-making trick".

[0] https://www.nocode-exits.com/p/from-no-code-saas-validation-...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30778028

I seems harmless to me and lot like old school stories of entrepreneurs starting out doing odd little things that don’t scale or work super well until they hit on an idea that cliques for them.

I think the online culture around this is more annoying than the actual activity.

It just seems like a lemonade stand or washing cars to me.

Would you be interested in purchasing an NFT of your comment?

Almost nobody is working on bare metal. Everyone above that level takes other people's APIs (whether they be the CPU commands, the OS functionality, app functionality, or service functionality, and then "hacks" it together to produce something which they believe is either fun or useful.

I'm not sure why you're looking down on this particular level of abstraction.

1. SHOUT ABOUT

Type SaaS

Oneliner Easier publicity for projects

Stats $1,003 MRR 20 presale customers

Sold for $15,000

No-Code Stack Bubble

Acquired on Microacquire

2. INSANELY USEFUL WEBSITE

Type Newsletter

Oneliner Newsletter that features interesting and useful websites

Stats 5,000 subscribers Ad revenue from day 1

Sold for Mid 5 figures

No-Code Stack Webflow Revue

Acquired on Microacquire

3. NOCODE GURU

Type Chatbot

Oneliner A wise tool advisor for beginner No-Code makers

Stats 0 revenue 1,500 monthly visitors

No-Code Stack Landbot Airtable Softr

Sold for 4 figures

Acquired on Microacquire

4. ACTIONS

Type Micro Saas

Oneliner Create Embeddable Notion Widgets

Stats 2,300 created Notion widgets 1,000 users

No-Code Stack Bubble Webflow

Sold for 4 figures

Acquired on Microacquire

If you want to read the full story of how each project was built with No-Code, promoted and acquired, check out No-Code Exits.

Pretty much nothing of any particularly great value. Sounds about right.

Add all those together, and you can buy a Starbucks Fripolocini and some avocado toast.

Lists don't make good HN submissions. It would be better to post the most interesting element of the list.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

I managed to get multiple Substack upsells while trying to read this website.

I love the way they do their 'pay wall' .. just btw

No AppSheet?

I hate these projects. Pitched to managers like they'll solve all problems. And now you've got a developer who inherits this stuff, no documentation, some proprietary json structure that configures some flow, and a $100,000/year license to keep the service running.

Nope. I'm out.

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