In Frankfurt, Yaokai Jiang tells how a sports card collector built an $800K business on Momen

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?
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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