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Hi everyone,

we're a low-code start-up from Brisbane and are currently running our first hackathon. We're giving away more than US$8,000 in cash prizes to the top 6 submissions (grand prize of US$5,555, and US$555 each for the five runners-up).

Our solution Five is a low-code IDE rather than a WYSIWYG app builder.

When using Five, you're building a full-stack web application on a MySQL database. Typical use cases are internal or operational tools, B2B apps or online database applications. Think custom CRM or PIM solutions, dashboarding apps, admin panels, inventory management solutions and so forth.

Back-end or full-stack devs usually have the best developer experience when using Five. A good understanding of SQL databases, SQL queries, JavaScript and TypeScript definitely helps to get started quickly (and with making a successful submission).

It's free to participate and the submission deadline is June 9th.

Hi,

I’m Dom, co-founder of Five.

We’re a self-funded low-code start-up from Brisbane, Australia.

If upon hearing “low-code start-up”, your reaction is “Another one!?”, give me three bullet points to explain makes us different:

1. We’re not a visual programming tool. We’re much more like a dev tool or IDE with full-code capabilities. For now, you can write JavaScript or TypeScript functions (with Open AI's code review & debugger), or SQL queries. In the future, any language that compiles to WebAssembly can be used in Five.

2. You can deploy your application from inside of Five. We give a full-provisioned MySQL database, as well as dev, testing and production environments for each application.

3. Five creates the UI for you. That's where the low-code parts come in. If your wrist ever got sore from dragging-and-dropping elements in a WYSIWYG application builder...well, Five is the solution. Our focus is on backend engineers who want to go from MySQL DB to web front end quickly.

4. Last (okay, this is four bullet points now), we don’t charge by end-user. Instead, developers can build their applications on Five locally for free, and only if they build something production-worthy, they sign up with us. We pass on the cloud cost to you: it's a pay-for-use business model we're envisaging, because we think it's fairer than charging by end-users. We generally don’t care what you build or whom you build it for (internal or external users).

Demo video here: https://youtu.be/rlUedk9SzCE

There’s a free download on website https://five.co. Docs are on help.five.org.

We would appreciate feedback (and questions!).

Hi there,

throwing my hat into the ring. :) We're developing a language-independent "low-code" environment that's very much made for coders. Website is www.five.co

To give a few examples: 1. For your database, you can either import an SQL dump, or you can create the tables, relationships, etc. in point-and-click. We're using MySQL by default, but are database-agnostic. 2. You can write queries in SQL and use the result of these queries for things like charts, tables or dashboards. 3. You can write JavaScript, TypeScript and C# to create functions or processes used by your app. In the future, any language that can be compiled to WebAssembly can be used inside Five. We use Google's V8 engine for this. We also support libraries and plug-ins. 4. The GUI is provided by Five. All you've got to do is give it a theme in CSS or point-and-click. The GUI is responsive. We use Material UI. 5. Each app comes with three environments (dev, staging, production). All apps are containerized. We're using K8.

Our idea is to give developers a tool that let's them code as much as they want to, but provide "no-code" options for the more tedious tasks of development.

We don't have a trial on our website yet, but feel free to contact me and I can give you access to a training account.