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Chris Strobl 🍓
3 years
"Spend your weekends doing the things that in 10 years normal people have as a job during the week" (Peter Thiel) No Code @bubble session (20x) #BerlinTechno #BuildInPublic #ODNC
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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Do things that don't scale.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
3 years
4 Types of no-coders: - Designer (Webflow) - Devs (Retool) - Operators (Zapier, Airtable, Notion) - PMs (Bubble) I think NoCode Ops will become the hottest job category in 2022. These people rise to the top infinitely fast in high growth startups. Need a casestudy? @beondeck
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3 years
I had a wonderful Zoom call with a famous VC in Silicon Valley. His prediction: No-Code's impact on startups will be more revolutionary than the Cloud and APIs. - New services and value props - Faster scaling - Budgets shifting - Founder archetype changing
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Chris Strobl 🍓
1 year
Push a button, apply to all startup accelerators in the world.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
1 year
I'm customizing @yoheinakajima babyagi for startups. 4 major changes: 1️⃣ Memory/context configuration similar SAP ERP 2️⃣ Lean startup task prioritization agent 3️⃣ Upwork/on-demand labor API endpoint ( @Stanford flash teams) 4️⃣ Management agent to control output
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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5 No-code business models: 👩‍🎨 No-code web agency (10x cheaper, better, faster) 💰 Coaching (teach people how to make money building apps) 🤖 Indie Hacker SaaS 🚀 Venture backed startup 🧑‍🔬 Career inside a company (no-code superpowers make you really valuable)
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Chris Strobl 🍓
2 years
We are a no-code business. We received 200 applications in last days. Not interested in Ex-Meta, Ex-Twitter, Ex-Stripe, Ex-Excess company. No-Code is the future. We are hiring based on merit, not status.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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Talked to pretty famous VC from Silicon Valley. No-Code labor marketplaces could become a thing in 2022. If someone is thinking about a Uber for No-Code Developers, I’m excited to Angel invest. DMs open.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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ChatGPT is wild. From idea to investor deck in less than 2 hours.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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Excited to push Level 2 @iruletheworldmo 🍓 Almost 1.5 years ago after GPT-4 launched.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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Do things that don't scale.
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I think a 2 person team coordinating No-Code, AI and Upwork generates the output of a 100 people team. Still exploring… but yes 🙌
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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I showed a famous Silicon Valley VC what I built in 3.5 weeks; competitors raised $200M in the last 6 months, hired hundreds of engineers. He said: I’m doing software since 20 years and have never seen this type of leverage/speed. This no-code thing must be alien technology 🛸👽
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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I’m excited to announce that I’m investing in no-code first startups in Berlin & Europe. Investment thesis / deal size / where did I get the money 👉🧵
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I can encourage all On Deck Fellows to add it to your LinkedIn bio. Got a cold 📩 from a great VC investor. I really wanted to know in our Zoom why exactly he wrote to me and wants to talk to me. Because I’m still stunned… His answer: @beondeck , No Code - in that order
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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@jelanisince94 I cloned Zapier UI with @bubble for internal stuff to keep track of the AI pipeline
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VC told me yesterday that number of startups w/ MVPs built in @Bubble increases every month
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Chris Strobl 🍓
3 years
Who is building a MicroSaaS on No-Code? Happy to help and/or invest.
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I showed a friend and successful entrepreneur @bubble live for 30 min. 5 hours later he calls me that he hired someone full time (computer science student, never heard of Bubble before)...Quote: "This is a $100B ecosystem opportunity. Watch Youtube."
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Chris Strobl 🍓
2 years
Build in public ? Yes / No
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I had a zoom call with one of the smartest VCs in Silicon Valley. He believes software will become a commodity industry b/c of no-code. I‘m still trying to figure out what that means… the internet will be 100x bigger, but less profitable (margins from 80% to 8%)
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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🔮 Prediction: there will be a one-person, one-billion-dollar no-code startup
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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@anothercohen It’s highly advanced copy/paste. Great artists steal. Can’t wait for them to copy Vision Pro
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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Ok, this is wild… CC @bubble
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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18 months ago I focused on @bubble because I knew I couldn’t stay on top of all no-code platforms. Today it‘s hard to even keep up with the community’s progress of only this one platform…now multiply this by 30 platforms - this is what the emergence of an industry looks like
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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Super excited to share all my learnings with the world and releasing my first product on @gumroad Taking pre-orders now. Release date: Dec. 22. 🎁 Special offer for my Twitter No-code friends. Price will increase soon.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
2 years
🚨 I'm excited to announce the launch of my new project Salesmachine. Salesmachine helps you create and share interactive product demos in minutes to win more deals. We're live and you can try it for free. Looking forward to your feedback.
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35 user interviews later: I stop building Noble Answers, the Stack Overflow for No-Code will not work. Here are my learnings. Thread 🧵 👇👇👇 #buildinpublic #failinpublic
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Chris Strobl 🍓
2 years
No-Code is a craft. You don't learn No-Code by reading a book.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
2 years
We‘re launching our new startup first of October 🚀 this is going to be a lot of fun
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Chris Strobl 🍓
3 years
No-Code Twitter friends: we have the opportunity to make a serious amount of money.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
2 years
Building my first Chrome Extension in @bubble 🙏
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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Today I launched a new startup idea on @IndieHackers and I will build in public. It‘s called @NobleAnswers and the idea is to build a @StackOverflow for no-coders. All I have is a landing page and a GPT-3 tech feasibility test. It feels a bit scary...
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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There are at least 3 ways to make money with No-Code: 1) MicroSaaS 2) Full time job as a no-coder 3) Freelance / Agency
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Chris Strobl 🍓
2 years
No-code is the skill that will allow you to break into tech
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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The greatest opportunity of no-Code might be projects that are currently not even possible to finance. This week I invested in an ambitious startup CEO that needs 200 software developers to launch his idea. We won the deal because we only need 20 rockstars with no Code.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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If you are a no-code builder and want to be unstoppable, learn how to sell software. Here is a list of the resources, I learned most from 🧶
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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I wish someone told me earlier: 1) Start with @makerpad and Glide, Airtable, etc 2) @buildcamp or @AirDevCo to learn Bubble 3) @treehouse to learn JavaScript / APIs to build your own custom plugins 4) @udacity Nanodegrees to go deep on tech/IP like Robotics, Deep Learning
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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Next week shipping a free video tutorial: How to build a simple plugin in @bubble Plugins are a bit scary at first, but the real secret of building plugins is that 80% are open-source. Kudos to Bubble platform design 👏
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Chris Strobl 🍓
1 year
I can build anything now. Nobody can stop me.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
2 years
If you can’t build your product in @bubble , question your product strategy.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
2 years
"Can my 19 year old son do an internship with you?" said a private equity legend to me after I showed him @Bubble for 10 min in person.
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No-Code feels like Silicon Valley in the 90s. People started multiple startups at the same time, because you couldn't know what works...Sit back and enjoy the ride 🎢
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Chris Strobl 🍓
2 years
Who looks to be the likely winner from the coming gold rush in no-code? I validated options really hard this year and my bet is still @bubble
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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No-code makes me happy. I‘m literally building every day stuff myself at $0 cost that has a fairmarket value $1000s of dollars in development costs
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☎️ the best app of the year. As a product guy I’m insanely excited about the product. We were brainstorming about producing a podcast for 2 years, now we produced 35 episodes … magical experience - feels like insta back in the days
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Two angel investors from Germany, @nocodechris @olcaybuyan , compare notes about the global tech scene in No Rules Berlin.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
2 years
No-coders you are so ahead of the game... Keep going. Figma product demos are the standard in Silicon Valley today. We built working software.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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Next 3 months focus on building my own plugins in @bubble - I want connect open source libraries on GitHub and AWS / Google cloud microservices. Will share learnings along the way #buildinpublic
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Chris Strobl 🍓
3 years
If you are at business school today, I can highly recommend learning no-code automation/ops ( @zapier @retool @integromat ). You will excel at any internship and likely get offered a full time job right away.
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Just had a zoom call with a VC about no-code. Her thesis: The winning no-code platform will be the one that is embedded in job descriptions, not job titles.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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Huge opportunity for new no-code agencies. I talked to some traditional web agencies about transitioning to no-code: - Fear of losing pricing power due to more transparency - Harder to sell to clients (lock-in, new technology) - Developers criticize no-code
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Chris Strobl 🍓
3 years
We are 5-7 years away from no-code in the big enterprise…
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Chris Strobl 🍓
2 years
Key learning for me: I’m 3-5x faster in @bubble development if I have finished designs in Figma. Yes, I can directly design and build from low fidelity in bubble, but it’s actually wrong. So the real cost is not $/hour for designer, but my productivity loss
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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Just had the idea, that I could use the OpenAI Chat API endpoint to programmatically break down OKRs in actionable projects. Tomorrow: 300 projects, 900 tasks, 80% can be automated with AI, 20% Upwork via flash teams.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
2 years
I‘m really worried that the big no-code platforms are not thinking big enough. The real value of no-code is that one can build software without finding, convincing, managing and paying a software developer. This was impossible prior no-code.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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Who are the best @bubble developers you know? We‘re hiring. DMs open
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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It’s pretty crazy how well @bubble works at bigger scale... I have roughly 1.5M words in the database now and it works without any problem... I was crashing multiple abstraction layers (Firebase and Co) in the past with more complex projects... Bubble just works so far
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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No-Code and Gen AI is going to be a wonderful career opportunity. There are no experts. Your job is to become the expert.
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Had a call with famous Silicon Valley VC: No-Code for MVPs is no longer a red flag. If the founder can use it to validate the business idea and the learnings can help hire a technical co-founder it‘s actually awesome.
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I gave a Zoom lecture at a university and was shocked to find that 95% of the business students didn't know what No-code is. Crazy to think about the potential they're missing out on. We‘re so early.
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Chris Strobl 🍓
3 years
My top 5 podcasts to learn about tech and startups: @TWiStartups by @jason (since 2012) Starting Greatness by @m2jr @AcquiredFM @InvestLikeBest @NFX podcast @villageglobal by @eriktorenberg
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Bubble Plugin Learning: All free plugins are open-source by default. You can learn from the best by looking at the source code.
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I learned one thing in Silicon Valley: it has always been about the future, not the present - and never the past. In Europe people ask you always about your experiences and what you did before today… it doesn’t matter! Tell me what‘s next
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AI & No-Code are the new power couple, unstoppable together! 💪
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Chris Strobl 🍓
2 years
Before and After ... 75 minutes in @bubble
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Prediction: no-code will be taught in every school and university. Just like Excel
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A lot of the best @bubble devs are moving into AI applications built on top of @OpenAI tech
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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Hello @bubble builders, anyone interested in a freelance project for my new startup? Advanced plugin skills required. 📧 DMs open.
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No-Code isn't about no engineers, it's about freeing up engineering resources for the most important problems.
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I'm focussing 100% on OpenAI as a platform.
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I‘m experimenting with hiring @bubble world-class developers for 2 days a week. (1) No-code makes you faster. Why not get paid for 2 days a week full-time salary (output is still 3x traditional sw developer) (2) Everyone (including me) has multiple things going on
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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Microsoft Clarity is underrated. It's free, open-source, integrates with Google Analytics. You get heatmaps, recording sessions... Takes 1 min to integrate @msftClarity
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I'm having the time of my life. Thanks, No-Code. Thanks @bubble
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Chris Strobl 🍓
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In the last 3 years I analyzed, tested and validated all types of ways to make money with no-code. Anyone interested in an idea maze for no-code - similar like @balajis idea maze presented in Stanford startup engineering course 10 years ago?
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I recently met one of the best product people/CEOs in startup land (Silicon Valley backed, etc). He was stunned by the iteration speed of No-Code. It felt unreal for him. No-Code feels undervalued still... I'm super excited about it.
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Your no-code achievements will get you the job, not your resume.
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You don't need to study computer science or learn to code to build something and distribute it essentially for free globally ... It's amazing that @bubble allows you to build a product without writing a single line of code.
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Talked to investor friend today: If no-code works - and it seems like - the only logical direction is to bootstrap to $1M profit per year After this fundraising is an option, not a necessity.
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One of the coolest ways to extend @bubble with Python is to use python code with a @Zapier zap. I used it to test and verify the use case before setting up a microservice
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No-code Life. Off to client 🛫
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I have this feeling that No-Code and AI will massively accelerate the globalization of Silicon Valley startup culture. There is room for 8 billion niches.
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Just showed a pretty famous VC in Silicon Valley how @bubble actually works and he admitted that until today he had „no clue what no-code is actually about“. Once in a lifetime opportunity ahead.
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No-Code is for winners
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I think the secret to mastering @bubble is to put in 4-6 billable hours per day, even when you don't have a client yet. A billable hour is a productive hour of Bubble development that you feel comfortable charging a client for.
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"This looks like a video game" Internal tool for Salesmachine to leverage GPT-4 at scale. Notional data.
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No-Code is here to stay.
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Super impressive @bubble product
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No-Code finally gives us control over the most important resource of the 21st century: software and data. I just talked to a super successful executive (Harvard, McKinsey) and he says he was sick of being held hostage by software developers over and over again: Business over tech
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Honestly @bubble is getting better every week. Power of compounding.
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The greatest benefit of no-code to early stage startups might be the reduction in coordination cost. If you have 2 people, instead of 6, you can navigate approximately 10x faster through the idea maze
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I really hope @bubble and @webflow hire as many @beondeck employees as possible. No-code aka more efficient product development will be the winner of this decade. Lots of innovation to come. Efficiency will matter.
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I recorded myself programming in @bubble for 7 hours (5x speed) ✅ CRM project pipeline 👩‍💼 CRM customer accounts ☎️ Contacts search 📝 Edit, delete elements 🧭 Advanced navigation
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100 commits or more at 40.000 ft @bubble Mile High Club
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GPT-4 + Bubble + MicroSaaS + Twitter + Build in Public = Hot white center... so thankful to be part of this.
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I'm sorry, if I'm alienating some no-coders right now... but this AI race is just so fascinating and I did not start no-code, because I don't like coding, I started with no-code, because I was suddenly able to do so much more with less.
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You are building a SaaS. Not a No-Code app.
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Sit back and enjoy the ride 🎢 GPT-4 to be released next week
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Prediction: Work for equity will be the best business model for No-Code agencies. Will add a new chapter soon to No-Code Agency OS: - Aligning incentives (hourly rate $0 or hourly rate vs. cost; contribution margin, shares, investment) - Targeting the right partners - Contracts
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