Malleable software = solid bases + custom code
In 2019 Michael Dubakov bet on the no-code revolution; this post makes a new bet, solid bases plus custom code. Using an imagined mushroom farm with ten staff, Dubakov compares five ways to get a team its software: build it from scratch with Claude Code or Codex, vibe-code it with Lovable or v0, use a low-code builder such as Retool or Softr, assemble it in a malleable tool such as Notion or Fibery, or buy a specialised tool. The post favours a base that already handles the hard shared parts (data with relations, concurrent editing, change history, permissions), with custom code for the rest, and expects malleable tools to get there first, "because extension points take quarters to add, while a solid base takes years". Read it knowing that Dubakov founded Fibery, one of the tools named, a fact the post itself does not mention.
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