| It seems like all the comments here are from non bubble users. We have worked on over 20 client projects in the past 1.5 years using bubble. Specialising exclusively in bubble now. A way to describe the platform would be WordPress for Web Apps. There was a census recently.
~75% clients are startup/MVPs
~25% SME making business tooling Out client portfolio is similar. I've hired fresh graduates in Pakistan, trained them in 2 weeks. And now have them working on a customer production app. I've also taught bubble bootcamps. After 8 weeks of weekly 2 hour zoom sessions, I doubt you'll get much progress in a coded bootcamp. But these guys were building their app ideas. All sorts of backgrounds. Accountant. Art student. Podcast editor etc. I have a client who needs a quick 2 week MVP. Done.
I have a client whose 40+ employees use bubble app daily across four counting. Core business tooling. The four pieces needed for a web app are
Design
Logic
Data
Hosting. Bubble combines all that and reduces the barrier to entry. No need to make comments like the famous Dropbox comment. Why not just SSH sftp xyz. NoCode is definitely rising. We have won bids against coding agencies due to cost/time. The competing coded agency suggested 3 months. I quoted 2 months. The day rate is somewhat similar. The speed is much faster. Very much needed for MVPs That being said. There are drawbacks. You can throw 30 software engineers and have a system and increase velocity that way. However, bubble/NoCode is more suited to small teams (afaict yet) Feel free to ask me anything. Bubble.io coach, bootcamp instructor, agency owner here. Bubble all day every day. Email : hn@azkytech.com |
1) They really are a fast way to get an MVP that can be shown to investors and customers and even process customer transactions for simple businesses. Many simple businesses don't fit into pre-packaged SaaS platforms like Shopify, but don't really need a fully custom solution built from the ground up. No-code is good for these.
2) No-code quickly hits a wall when things start to get more complex or as the scale grows. At some point, trying to coerce the no-code solution into doing what you need becomes increasingly painful and a custom solution becomes necessary.
In reality, I think many small businesses and simple startups are actually a good fit for no-code websites. The Wordpress analogy is a good comparison because we all know how unnecessary it is to write a blogging platform from scratch in 2021 (unless for hobby, of course). Likewise, it's going to become silly to write a custom backend and frontend solution for a client whose entire business is basically a couple of web forms and simple workflows.
It's all about picking the right tool for the job, and no-code tools can be the right tool for many jobs.
But they're not the right tool for every job. Knowing the difference is important.