The No-Code Manifesto: A Journey with Bubble

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10 years later - The No-code Manifesto got a rewrite from Bubble. Here's a bit of my story with Bubble and what you need to know about the manifesto. A lot has changed since 2014, when no-code tools began to flourish.

My journey with no-code started in 2019 while attempting to build my first startup without technical cofounders. It was called Ecobyte.

That's when I discovered @Bubble. At that time, Bubble had less than 300k users. A year later, I helped a startup called Hunty scale to nearly 200 employees in just one year using Bubble. Last summer, at the No-code Summit in Paris, I came across their team.

I was amazed by the impact Bubble had made in the ecosystem.

Station F was packed with Bubble fans. Now, the main no-code web app builder has 3 million users. Although I am no longer a Bubble developer, I closely follow their movement. Here are the main takeaways from Bubble's new no-code manifesto:

→ No-code tools should not be seen as "lite coding" or diminish the skills of those who use them. No-code developers are still developers.

The level of no-code development provided by Bubble is comparable to programming, and people building upon Bubble (or similar tools) should be recognized as programmers, just like someone using Canva instead of Photoshop for design.

→ Bubble aims to bridge the gap between what no-code and traditional coding can achieve. No-code empowers rapid prototyping and the development of production-grade technology.

And it's not only for the non-technical mortals. Even engineers are leveraging Bubble and no-code tools to outpace their peers.

→ New fronteers of no-code are coming. Native mobile apps are coming into Bubble, and they claim being on the path to build production-grade, full-stack, scaled software on "Bubble alone." They have version control, SOC 2 compliance, Enterprise versions and stuff of that sort.

→ Their vision is to democratize software development for everyone, regardless of formal education or coding skills. It's up to the no-code community to lead the way and showcase the possibilities of this programming paradigm.

Love this quote from the founders: "A future where you or anyone you know can build anything from an internal CRM to the next major FAANG-level tech company — without massive piles of capital, infinite time, or living in a major tech hub."

Killer messages here. I love to see the "future of no-code" is here. It has reached the mainstream. It's all over Youtube, Tiktok and IG.

From the beggiiners to the Saas folks. No-code is here to stay. Read the full article here: bubble.io/blog/no-code-manifesto-revised/

Side-note: What's my concern? ⚠️ Even if Bubble claims to be the intersection between no-code and programming, they don't provide a bridge from no-code to code.

The no-code movement is highly biased towards Bubble as the "main tool" - and it has a dangerous vendor lock-in.

Scaling with Bubble is possible. But scaling into code is impossible. You're locked for life. Bubble is it's own programming language, complementary - yet incompatible with the rest. Meanwhile, tools Like @FlutterFlow or @WebWeb are opening up these bridges.