Create: empowering everyone to build the software they want
Building software is far, far easier than it was even five years ago. Language libraries, APIs, infrastructure platforms-as-a-service, etc have simplified the process of creating rich, scalable software to the point where a new product can be live in days or weeks versus months (or even years if you wind the clock back far enough).
As powerful as today’s developer toolkit is, it still requires engineers (note the plural!) that need to be hired and who will then spend 50% of their time on the full-stack features, infrastructure, and tasks that are similar across all products. This includes auth, search, filtering, infinite feeds, notifications, transactional emails, onboarding, CRUD forms, data migrations, job processors, UI components, APIs, data ingestion, analytics, and so on…
And what happens if you can’t code? No Code products allow non-technical creators to build software and stitch together workflows but the output is often brittle, hard to scale, and difficult to customize to the creator’s exact requirements. Perfect for proofs of concept but what if a project takes off and the product needs to be customized, extended, and hardened?
There should be a third way! If software creation can be seen as a spectrum of ease and ownership with No Code tools on the far left and a team of dedicated engineers on the far right, could something different exist in the middle? Maybe something that combines the ease of creation of No Code coupled with the extensibility and power of a dedicated software engineering team?
Enter Create, a platform that helps ambitious founders, teams, and companies launch new software products faster. Their mission is to give everyone the power of software creation. With the advent of Large Language Model (LLM) AI, we’re pushing toward a world where anyone can simply describe what they want to be built and have it instantly created.
Create’s initial product combines a generative AI-powered code generation system for reusable, full-stack features with a global, 24/7 community of developers supercharged with these tools. Using Create’s marketplace, customers can specify, build and ship full custom software products in hours or days.
I was introduced to Create’s co-founders, Dhruv Amin and Marcus Lowe by long-time friend of Uncork, Hansae Catlett, and was immediately captivated by their vision to empower the solopreneur, the two-person team, or entrepreneurial product person to be as powerful as the most iconic dev-powered organizations on the planet.
If you’re considering building a new product, you can taste the Create magic at https://create.xyz. Just describe your idea and watch what usually takes weeks get automagically designed, built, and deployed in minutes. You can launch your app and start using it immediately. From there you can access their supercharged developer community to further customize it or download the codebase to manage it yourself. The code is immaculately structured and ready for even the most discerning engineer to work on it.
I’m delighted to welcome Marcus, Dhruv, James and the rest of Team Create to the Uncork portfolio, and excited to be working with a group of wonderful co-investors including Hansae’s MBA fund and Uncork founder angels Mathilde Collin (Front) and Russ Heddleston (DocSend).
So — what are you going to Create?
