brentsum

Try signing up! You can create a new listing, search existing ones, send messages to other users, and view upcoming trips. It's integrated to Stripe as well so you can actually book a trip (although I wouldn't recommend that since every listing is fictional).

One of the great things about WYSIWYG is it brings you closer to what you're making. Bret Victor nails why this is important in his talk "Inventing on Principle" - these tools help beginners shape their idea into something usable. And obviously these things can't scale like Airbnb, but they can scale enough to get traction and convince a developer to join your team. As a potential co-founder, would you feel better about joining a non-technical founder 1) with an idea on a napkin or 2) some traction and a code-free prototype.

Thanks! The "How to build a community site like Yelp" course launches in a few weeks. Then, the most-requested courses that I'll be adding next are 1) how to build an on-demand app like Uber and 2) how to build a chatbot for Slack/FB messenger. So I'm investigating the best way to teach those now :)

I was always a lousy developer, but I finally could make apps for the first time when I tried putting together tools like Zapier, Blockspring and Bubble. I ended making a (shaky) clone of Airbnb, and recorded the whole 10-hour process. Time-lapse video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCgD6-FOjtA

On this platform (code-free as well), I am teaching basic design and programming concepts for the audience that usually stumbles after 4-8 lessons on CodeAcademy. It's my hope that after building some cool things without code, they understand enough about programming to feel confident to dive back in. Curious to hear what you think!