✍🏼 Drop #1: Debuild - Build apps with plain English

Daily Dropout | Debuild.co

September 12, 2020

Welcome to the first edition of The Daily Dropout - where we bring you the coolest student start-ups from around the world every week.

Student founders take risks to shape the future as we know it - whether it be through bleeding-edge graduate research, or the next big social media app. And we’re glad you’re here with us to experience, work with, and maybe even invest in, these ventures’ rise from moths to mammoths.

— Aakash, Ajay, and Ishan

⚾️ The Elevator Pitch:

While software is essential in basically every industry, only 0.3% of the population knows how to write code!

Debuild is building a ML-powered dev tool takes in plain English, and outputs runnable code that powers web apps (by using OpenAI's new GPT-3 natural language model).

Watch Debuild Recreate the Google Homepage

👇The Drop Down:

  • Site: https://debuild.co

  • Founded: 2020

  • School: University of Maryland

  • Stage: Seed

  • Tech trend: No-Code Development & Natural Language Processing (NLP)

  • Traction: Raised $$$ from investors, multiple Prototypes, 30k+ likes/retweets on Twitter

🚀 The Team:

Serial Entrepreneur, Backed by Y-Combinator, Experienced Engineer

🔍 Why We Like It

  1. 💻 Debuild uses bleeding-edge Natural Language Processing.Their founders have VIP access to OpenAI's GPT-3 model. This model is a big deal - the model 'learned' from the entire internet (versus a few Sherlock Holmes texts). With GPT-3, Debuild is translating English-to-Code faster than you can say "I can handle the business side."

  2. 📈 Demand for no-code solutions has skyrocketed.You've probably heard of Squarespace and Zapier. Generating code from plain English has been in high-demand as designers, PMs, and non-technical founders embrace technology in their businesses. Debuild is filling a desperate need for many aspiring builders who have the ideas but lack the programming training.

Sharif Shameen, Founder & CEO

🤝 Get Involved

Drop a like or retweet previous demos:CSS Demo, Google Website Demo, React App Demo

More on GPT-3:Research paper on 'Language Models are Few-Shot Learners'

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