Why building your MVP with No-Code tools often beats hiring full-stack developers.

We initially hired two full-stack devs to build our initial web platform from scratch. Three months and $25,000 later, we were still debugging backend logic without a single real user testing the product.

We scrapped the build, spent a weekend using Bubble and Webflow, and launched a working prototype in 5 days for less than $500. It allowed us to get 100 paying beta users and validate our primary workflow before writing a single line of custom code.

Should founders ban custom code until they've proven people are actually willing to pay for the solution?