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The no-code solutions are enabling a digital sort of business that is distinct from their analog counterparts. Their examples - teaching, online job-board, courses for sale - are digital upgrades to teaching, newspaper classifieds, and books.

You can stitch together a useful business with these tools. But you won’t build a pure software business. They are just entirely different things. Building the so-called “no-code” technology is the software play.

As an aside, “Plenty of Fish” 1.0 was built with an off-the-shelf website builder. You don’t need to be a pro-coder to provide value.



> As an aside, “Plenty of Fish” 1.0 was built with an off-the-shelf website builder.

From what I read about PoF, it was written in VB. For performance reasons, anything external was gradually rewritten inline.

> You don’t need to be a pro-coder to provide value.

That definitely doesn't match the story of him spending months in his condo writing PoF.


As I remember it, POF was just a side project intended to self-learn Asp.Net.




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