| Hi, I’m Dom, co-founder of Five. We’re a self-funded low-code start-up from Brisbane, Australia. If upon hearing “low-code start-up”, your reaction is “Another one!?”, give me three bullet points to explain makes us different: 1. We’re not a visual programming tool. We’re much more like a dev tool or IDE with full-code capabilities. For now, you can write JavaScript or TypeScript functions (with Open AI's code review & debugger), or SQL queries. In the future, any language that compiles to WebAssembly can be used in Five. 2. You can deploy your application from inside of Five. We give a full-provisioned MySQL database, as well as dev, testing and production environments for each application. 3. Five creates the UI for you. That's where the low-code parts come in. If your wrist ever got sore from dragging-and-dropping elements in a WYSIWYG application builder...well, Five is the solution. Our focus is on backend engineers who want to go from MySQL DB to web front end quickly. 4. Last (okay, this is four bullet points now), we don’t charge by end-user. Instead, developers can build their applications on Five locally for free, and only if they build something production-worthy, they sign up with us. We pass on the cloud cost to you: it's a pay-for-use business model we're envisaging, because we think it's fairer than charging by end-users. We generally don’t care what you build or whom you build it for (internal or external users). Demo video here: https://youtu.be/rlUedk9SzCE There’s a free download on website https://five.co. Docs are on help.five.org. We would appreciate feedback (and questions!). |