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Twitter, but without code

notrealtwitter.com

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(This thread is a duplicate of the linked one.)

I didn't dare to try and sign in.

Exactly my thought.

same

I am developer and I understand why bubble.js in its current state cant be used for production apps. But if we think about making apps for fun like a flashy presentation / wedding website / temporary event website / startup landing page, it sounds like a real use case.

I don't wanna sit and code for a website that's will up for only a couple of days. I would rather use bubble.js. Hell yeah, this framework was able to build a twitter clone too :P

I also looked at the app editor and its quite good for web dev beginner purposes(database, click events and stuff). It does follow MVC design pattern.

From the page:

> "It is to show the future of software development"

> "Because in 2020 most programmers won't be engineers"

> "They will be doctors, teachers, farmers, executives"

So this is a sophisticated version of Microsoft Access? Combined with Apple's Filemaker? For the web?

Is this supposed to be the new Dreamweaver? Because that one was obviously the future /s

It is discrediting http://bubble.is/, saying it is like Twitter, but much worse.

I couldn't sign up. It took forever.

Don't understand.

I think they're trying to

1) Advertise the bubble.is framework

2) Say that developers/engineers/coders are now terribly obsolete and everything you ever wanted to build can be done with this framework, so pack your bags and go home, time to start digging ditches! /s

I think site is trying to get push the idea of "look what click and drag website makers are capable of doing". The nottwitter site was built with bubble.is by a person without any programming experience, it was all click and drag.

As a web developer I see the promise in these website builder sites for the layman. By simplifying the task of making a website it reduces the need to hire costly developers. In my experience though, sites built using these cookie cutters quickly outgrow the platform or tend to break catastrophically because the people using them have no clue what is going on.

Seems to be a demonstration of bubble.is, which looks like an app/web framework that requires no coding.

Also doesn't seem to work very well. Managed to both error out and prompt me to refresh the page because it'd been updated in the first 20 seconds. I'll stick to coding for now.

The whole bubble site is actually pretty flaky. Just for the sake of curiosity (and I saw it was free to create websites with) I tried to create an account. Even after creating the account it keeps redirecting me back to the pricing page where it wants me to select my payment plan. Bubble.is, no thanks.

Also not a fan of the alery box that shows up on every page as you try to navigate their website letting me know:

> We're still saving your latest changes... please wait a moment!

> Are you sure you want to leave this page?

But doesn't that framework need to be built by programmers? So in reality you still need developers or programmers to give the ability to non coders the ability to build something like this...unless I am missing something.

bubble.js was built with bubble.js- it's bubble.js all the way down.

Hello, NotRealTwitter.

Could you explain yourself?

Thanks, Erik

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