How to build Decentralized Application without knowing how to code

Software development is hard

Would it be great if everyone had the ability to create their own application without knowing any programming language? Everyone knows someone with an app idea but ideas remains an idea because building one is hard. I know! I’ll just hire a programmer to do it - but they are expansive and they often build the wrong thing.

So why is it so hard?

1. You have to learn a very complex software architecture.
2. You have to learn a new ‘alien’ like language - Reading code is hard - even for most experienced developers. Because when you write code you have a good understanding of the problem you are solving and a mental model of them in code.
3. Bugs, bugs and more bugs - Every line of code is a potential point of failure. Now you spend 80% of your time debugging and learning new syntax instead of creating and inventing.
4. The software industry is still young - the software industry is only about 50 years old. We still have a long way to go before we have the body of experience behind us that the construction and manufacturing industries have. doesn’t have the range of pre-built components that other industries have.

WTF is Sparkster

Sparkster is an application that allows anyone to build Decentralized Application (DAPP) with simple English. Sparkster aims to make software development accessible to everyone by creating a drag and drop visual programming application. Sparkster aims to reach more than 10 million TPS with their Decentralized cloud.

How It Works?
There are 3 main components to Sparkster:

Drag & Drop Interface - To bring software development mainstream, Sparkster uses the Drag & Drop interface which is proven to be a lot easier compared to a standard text editor. Many teachers are introducing programming to young kids with such interfaces.

Writing a program in English- You can describe what you want the interface to do in plain English. This also helps eliminate syntactic error.

Build powerful apps- Integrate applications with other things you build or external application such as API, Smart Contracts, IOT using the same Drag & Drop interface.

10 Million Transaction Per Second!
Sparkster believes that their technology will be able to facilitate 10 million transactions per second. That's an ambitious target to achieve. Most recently hyped project such as Quarkchain, PChain, Seele aims to achieve between 100k to 1 million TPS.

Check out the video from the CEO of Sparkster demonstrating the protocol reaching 50,000 TPS under 3 mins:

Roadmap

The product is currently in beta and is open for the public to try it out: https://sparkster.me/try/?#Try . The Main net is scheduled to be launched on Q4 2018.

Team

1. Sajjad Daya — Sajjad is a great communicator and a visionary. His ability to convey his vision in a simple to understand manner helps layman to relate.

2. Shabeer Kirmani — Data Science at the US Department of Defense.

3. Professor Gary Leavans– Advisor. PHD from MIT.

4. Dayanie Rajeev - Management experience from Accenture, Citibank and IBM

ICO DETAILS

The ICO is currently on-going at their Website: https://sparkster.me/

What I like about it

+ Working beta is out - this is not a whitepaper only project.
+ Massive and active community - The followers are almost cult-like.
+ Main-net scheduled to be released on Q4 2018.
+ Product walkthrough helps in selling the vision.
+ Ian Balina created a lot of awareness for this project.
+ Competent team.

Concerns
- Visual programming is still in its infant stage. This technology still has many fundamental limitations.
- Mediocre advisors for a project this ambitious.
- No partnerships.

Final Thought
Some people are commenting that Sparkster has too much marketing. I, on the other hand, think this is this a great strength for a blockchain project - Sparkster needs hype to increase awareness in a short time to grow the community fast. This, in turn, helps in increasing the transactional speed as the number of nodes increases.

Disclaimer

This is NOT Financial advice. I am NOT a licensed or professional financial advisor. I fully encourage you to do your own research and make your own choice when making any financial decision.