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How a Twitter clone heralded a no-code boom - BBC
What happens when developing apps doesn’t require any coding skills at all? One technology is opening up a famously opaque industry, which could help level the tech playing field.
Many people who quit their jobs spend their new-found time updating LinkedIn profiles, polishing resumes or bingeing on Netflix. Not Vladimir Leytus. After leaving his analytics role at a start-up in 2015, Leytus holed up in his apartment to focus on an ambitious project: cloning Twitter. In less than a week, he’d built a nearly carbon copy of the social media network. And he did it all without writing a line of code.
As a recent MBA graduate, Leytus had plenty of ideas for apps, though he lacked skills in software development, a common barrier to would-be tech entrepreneurs. But then he discovered Bubble, a drag-and-drop builder with a deceptively simple interface. It’s one of several advanced ‘no-code’ tools enabling hundreds of thousands of people without technical backgrounds to create their own apps, effectively eliminating the need to learn a coding language before launching a start-up.
What happens when developing apps doesn’t require any coding skills at all? One technology is opening up a famously opaque industry, which could help level the tech playing field.
Many people who quit their jobs spend their new-found time updating LinkedIn profiles, polishing resumes or bingeing on Netflix. Not Vladimir Leytus. After leaving his analytics role at a start-up in 2015, Leytus holed up in his apartment to focus on an ambitious project: cloning Twitter. In less than a week, he’d built a nearly carbon copy of the social media network. And he did it all without writing a line of code.
As a recent MBA graduate, Leytus had plenty of ideas for apps, though he lacked skills in software development, a common barrier to would-be tech entrepreneurs. But then he discovered Bubble, a drag-and-drop builder with a deceptively simple interface. It’s one of several advanced ‘no-code’ tools enabling hundreds of thousands of people without technical backgrounds to create their own apps, effectively eliminating the need to learn a coding language before launching a start-up.