DISPATCH 24 · FRANKFURT
Yaokai Jiang, founder, Momen
FRANKFURT — A software engineer who started coding in 1998 sets out to build a no-code tool. He doesn't know Bubble exists. Six years later, his users are running businesses with 60,000 customers. I sat down with Yaokai Jiang at No-Code Week to talk databases, DSLs, and why AI needs tools — not prompts — to write reliable backends.
On the ground with
Yaokai Jiang is the founder of Momen, a no-code platform for data-intensive applications. A former early engineer at Medallia, he built large-scale real-time analytics engines before turning his attention to a question: why should you need four years of university to build a SaaS?
What we covered
00:00 The itch: why a coder builds a no-code tool
02:09 Full-stack from day one — and never abandoning the front end
08:04 Transactional semantics, types, and replacing Hasura
11:02 AI meets DSL: why tool use beats prompt engineering for backends
20:32 The sports card collector: 60K users, $800K revenue, one builder
29:51 China vs US: two AI worlds, one regulatory chasm
From the notebook
- Momen — momen.app
- Medallia — medallia.com
- Hasura — hasura.io
- Bubble — bubble.io
- Xano — xano.com
- FlutterFlow — flutterflow.io
- Supabase — supabase.com
- Figma — figma.com
- Lovable — lovable.dev
- GraphQL — graphql.org
- Postgres
- Stripe
Find Yaokai
LinkedIn — linkedin.com/in/yaokai-jiang-21894924
Next stop
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