This is actually really interesting. Thank u for sharing

This is an pretty great article.

Wish I would've read it years ago... thanks for the share

I said the same thing to myself when I wrote it... I was thinking back a few companies ago and wishing I understood this stuff. Glad you liked it!

Phil, the guy in the interview, talks about building their MVP and current platform on Bubble. Did you watch the vid?

Thanks mtmail

I've wondered the same! Earwax has been a proxy to categorize race in U.S. history. What is Latinx, or American Indian earwax like?

Isnt Latin a very general term, as in you could have mixed Native, Black or White ethnic heritage.

American Indian will probably share more with Asian than european or african ear wax.

Have to admit, I've never been to Cracker Barrel.

But for chess or go, you can certainly create a solid interface for two real players to play the game on Bubble. To build in a "computer player" would probably be difficult.

That's a good point. I don't have much traditional programming experience myself, but have found that Bubble has help me "speak the same language" as those who program with code. Perhaps there is an interesting place for tools like Bubble to be a middle-ground for those learning the principles behind coding.

Why is it you think that someone like the author would be able to code many times faster than they could develop software visually through Bubble?

> Why is it you think that someone like the author would be able to code many times faster than they could develop software visually through Bubble?

Thinking about how things go together is the hard part of writing software. Every time I've ever used a visual interface to show that, I've had to spend additional time to "translate" what I'm building into what's actually happening on the layer underneath. The abstraction is too leaky to be of use to me.

It's possible that there is a visual language out there that's not so leaky, but I've not seen it. Granted I've not used Bubble.

We love Bubble too. Certainly believe that visual programming is the future.

Ha Ha. We were getting a traffic spike through this, which caused the issue. But Bubble has this feature where you can add more "units" to your overall app capacity to handle increased traffic, which we did. Enjoy!

I have no paranoid browser settings (i.e. JS still is enabled), only an ad blocker, and yet all I get is

> Your browser was unable to load some necessary resources, contact your IT network administrator and ask him or her to allow access to

     dhtiece9044ep.cloudfront.net 
     dd7tel2830j4w.cloudfront.net/ 
     d1muf25xaso8hp.cloudfront.net

Even from sites with ad blocker blocker have I ever seen such a failure to even load the page at all.

Thanks for flagging

Your page doesn't render without JS enabled, including JS from hard-to-trust cloudfront.net domains, and also doesn't render in Firefox's reader mode.

Thanks for flagging. This is helpful for us to assess

so, you can only run Bubble stuff on their systems? That means it isn't yours at all. What happens when they go bust? what about your apps then?

From bubble.is/faq :

"Finally, we want to make sure you feel secure about building on the Bubble platform, so, although we plan to be around for a very long time, here's our guarantee: if we ever for some reason have to close down shop, we will release the Bubble source code under an open-source license so that you can set up your own Bubble server and keep your app running."

It should be fixed!