Excerpt from techcrunch.com
When Glide came out of Y Combinator in 2019, it was looking to help people with absolutely no coding ability to build a simple, but functional mobile app from data in a spreadsheet. While it still does that, it has also expanded its capabilities to build web apps as well. Today, the company announced a $20 million Series A.
Company co-founder and CEO David Siegel says that being able to create applications without coding was something they believed to be true, but upon launching out of YC, they were able to prove the thesis. “We thought that we could make it much easier to create really well-designed, data-driven apps if we started with the spreadsheet as the foundation,” he said.
When the pandemic hit in 2020, the company began seeing an increase in interest as companies looked for ways to build applications quickly to help manage operations. That could have been around coordinating who could be in the building or where to find masks, as a couple of examples.
“One question we had in 2019 was do people who aren’t software developers want to create software in general? That was something we didn’t know the answer to. And what we learned in 2020 is if it’s accessible and it’s easy enough, everybody wants to create software,” he said.
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