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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
Just recently @rogerdickey & @trygigster announced that is has raised $10 Million Series A from @a16z and includes @jason @aplusk @ronconway @ycombinator
There is obviously a huge opportunity in this space. How do you aim to compete with such services?
What does the addition of Blockspring bring to Bubble?
@estraschnov @jphaas1 @pavtalk @tokoph @whatsdonisdon @georgeciobanu
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Emmanuel Straschnov
@estraschnov · Founder, Bubble
@bentossell Bubble is about empowering people to build apps themselves, while @trygigster is more of an outsourcing model, which is quite different. We think that if the process becomes easy enough, it's much better to build apps yourself, because you very often have lost in translation issues with the devs. Curious to see how Gigster will solve that issues.
That's similar to Excel 20 years ago. Today, nobody hires an outsourcing shop to build an Excel sheet. In many ways though, it's like an application. It's just that Excel made it easy enough for people to do it themselves after a few hours of learning.
What Blockspring brings to the table is ability to connect to any data source, in particular internal datasources (in large organizations) without having to code anything. They did it for Excel, now Bubble lets people build apps with any source of existing data, without technical skills.
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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@estraschnov definitely interested to see this space evolve and as you said... I wonder if it becomes easy enough, will people just build themselves or outsource.
I think there will always be a market for both and I think Bubble is such an amazing company in the space. Congrats :)
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Paul Katsen
@pavtalk · Founder, Blockspring
@bentossell Great questions. In short - some people are builders, others aren't. I think it's how we're wired and the world needs both types. We're making it easier for those that want to build products, to do so.
We've all worked on teams with people that get amped, and can make the time, to figure tech out themselves. Whether it's the marketer teaching themselves SQL, the recruiter learning how to scrape sites with import.io, or the salesperson learning how to lookup people's email address with Chrome extensions. They're people that want to be builders, but not developers. This integration is for them. The technical marketers, the people hacking sales, hacking sourcing, hacking ecommerce, etc. They can be builders too.
Many people don't care or have the time. You dont need to be a technical marketer to be a marketer. But in the not too distant future you may see your tech-savvy teammates, not just developers, building your products :). And I have a feeling that means better products. A technical marketer might know much better what a marketer wants than an engineer. And that also means a bigger army for @trygigster. I don't see them and Bubble as competitors at all.
@estraschnov and Josh have done a brilliant job with Bubble. Excited to bring the world's APIs into the mix w/ Blockspring. Lots more in store for helping the next generation of builders do their thang!
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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@pavtalk yeah I think its a great platform and something I would be trying to use if I wasn't working at PH.
I could never get into coding and always struggled on the technical side, so was looking for something like this.
Luckily I found @mubashariqbal to help me on the technical side but maybe if I get any time to do another side project I'll be coming to this straight away to test it out!
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