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Hi everyone,

My wife and I are building a marketplace app. We don’t have a developer background, so we first looked at Bubble. It’s great for speed, but the pricing and long-term lock-in worry us.

We’ve started experimenting with a code-based setup using AI tools to guide us. It’s slower, harder, and there’s a real risk we won’t succeed, but we like the idea of learning properly and having full control long term.

We’re only aiming for a simple MVP and real user feedback, not something huge.

If you were starting today with no dev background, would you go no-code for speed or code + AI for long-term flexibility? Any real experiences would be really helpful.

Thanks.

Hi everyone,

I wanted to get some honest opinions from people who’ve been there.My wife has been running her own accounting practice for just over a year now and is fully qualified. She’s good at what she does, very detail-focused, quick to respond, and already has a solid base of clients. Clients are happy, the work is strong, and there’s steady income so it’s not a case of starting from scratch.

That said, most of the growth so far has been organic, and it feels like things are a bit… stuck. Stable, but not really moving to the next level yet.

I’m curious what actually made the difference for you when you were at a similar stage. Was it something fairly simple like clearer messaging, r

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