#33 - Pioneering The No-Code Movement

We call it a visual software development platform. It's a way for people to build things that typically coders build. Just in a completely visual environment. For us to be truly successful to be able to build a tool that builds other products and services, you can't do that overnight.

the next six months were like really, really tough. what we thought was gonna like bring in income, we didn't have anything coming in at this point and when you have a family and like rent and car payments and all this stuff and like kids need to go to school Then Just stuff started like falling apart. You know, couldn't get a trademark, one of the co-founders got less motivated, day job got a lot more interesting. I think we had raised like three hundred K and we're like really struggling and went to Paul Graham and said this is really hard on us like I was waking up every morning with panic attacks. Like my wife was like this is not healthy. Yeah, why you wanted this? Like is this what startups are about, right?

They've got 75,000 ping users. They just raised a monster round of investment. 72 million series A. those other website builders are kinda like iMovie and then webflows for like Final Cut Pro. just feels like the gold rush, sort of like the pioneer era of the space, where we're at the very, very beginning of it, sort of like the web in nineteen ninety nine. No technology in history has ever spread so fast. Products have going up on product time and like hitting number one. know that it's built with no-go tools. The analogy to me is like eating food. Not too long ago in history, I would have had to go out there and hunt and forage. Today it's abstracted away where I don't even have to think. I push a button on my phone and the meal appears. When you remove those barriers, magical things happen. Even something that feels slower to other companies or founders, getting to where we are today, seven years from now. For me, it's just

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