The development of low-code and no-code applications continues. He quietly hums “Row, row, row your code, gentle pull the streams” as we talk to the boisterous founder behind it, the company akin to Airtable, heavy on steroids, or Excel, on heavy steroids and some illicit substances. . Low-code solutions aren’t new, of course, but they’re often most useful for low-volume applications where organizations need to outgrow their tools and rebuild the technology stack. Rowy has higher ambitions and wants to make the products accessible to anyone who is a spreadsheet user and build software backends that can evolve and scale over time.
“Last week, OpenAI’s GPT Chat showed the world a tiny fraction of what the latest AI models are capable of. The large language models and generative AI capabilities are incredible and have opened many people’s eyes to the possibilities. Similarly, Rowy will show the world what AI is capable of when it comes to programming,” said Harini Janakiraman, co-founder and CEO of Rowy, in an interview with TechCrunch.
The company told us that their goal is to create a system that can turn everyone’s vision into a digital product. “If you can use Excel, you can use Rowy,” is the refrain the company keeps repeating in its mission to help entrepreneurs realize their projects, businesses and passions.
“Our goal is to reduce the cost, time and geographic barriers to entrepreneurship so that anyone, anywhere with an idea can bring it to life. We are on the cusp of a corporate renaissance and I see Rowy playing a major role on a grand scale,” said Janakiraman. “Personally, I am motivated to make software development simpler, easier and more accessible to everyone. More people need to build and innovate. Instead of focusing on core business functions, a lot of valuable developer time is wasted trying to figure out how to build, deploy and configure DevOps and many other complexities in the development process.”
The Rowdy team. Unfortunately not on rowboats, which your correspondent thinks is a missed opportunity. photo credit: rude
Delivery speed is one thing, but the company is really doubling down to enable Rowy to keep using it even after production-scale products reach many enthusiastic users.
The Australian company just closed a $3 million funding round in SAFE bonds, led by Worklife Ventures (who are notably investors in Webflow and WorkOS).
“I live in Sydney, Australia and the new normal of remote working has allowed me to connect with the best investors in Silicon Valley with deep knowledge of the space to help us on this journey. Our investors have helped us create great networking opportunities for Rowy,” says Janakiraman. “In our lead investor, Brianne Kimmel of Worklife, we found the right partner for us to align with our vision and support companies in developing modern tools for the next generation of upstart manufacturers.”
Now that the funds are safely and recently deposited into the bank account, the company is focusing on expanding the applicability of its platform to a wider range of backend models, richer demos in its experimental field, and more. So far it has demos for OpenAI GPT-3, Google Cloud Vision, Stable Diffusion to Twitter Bot and more that anyone can explore, clone and use.
“We are also building native AI experiences in Rowy to support automatic backend code generation. We see promising results from our first users as the generated code is more accurate because Rowy knows the context of his database and cloud platform,” says Janakiraman. “We are also opening Rowy and have an incredible community of over 6,000 developers on Github and Discord.”
In addition to raising her next baby, Janakiraman had a newborn last year, and our conversation turned to what it’s like to do both at the same time.
“As a mother and founder, I have used my time much more efficiently. I’ve always loved problem-solving and being organized, but I think one thing I don’t notice is how great moms are at multitasking,” she said. “It’s something I’ve been really good at over the last year and being a founder is a critical skill, it also made me even more determined to build something that will have the greatest impact on the lives of builders, manufacturers and developers so they can focus on creating meaningful products .”
Source: La Neta Neta
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