Blaze makes coding more accessible with AI-driven, no code app builder

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And one of the really exciting pieces for us is that its also AI-powered, co-founder and co-CEO Nanxi Liu told TechCrunch.The AI-powered bits are natural language processing delivered via the OpenAI API, which enables users to simply tell Blaze what they want to do by typing a description, which the service then turns into code. Company co-founder and co-CEO Tina Denuit-Wojcik explained that it requires a great deal of pre- and post-processing on Blazes part to translate the typed commands into operational code, but the API helps drive it.The user can type just a few sentences, but we have to make it aware of all the context of the data, and other things that are on the page, how to connect and what actions are possible, Denuit-Wojcik said.As they build an application, users can drag and drop connectors such as e-commerce tools like Shopify or payments like Stripe. The company has even built its own database called Blaze Tables.Among the kinds of applications they are helping people build include document portals, customer success dashboards, inventory management systems and contract workflows.The two founders have been working together for over a decade, having founded a digital signage company called Enplug in 2012, which raised $3.7 million (per Crunchbase) before being acquired by Spectrio in early 2021. As two immigrant women founding a company, they are acutely aware of the need to build a diverse and inclusive team. Plus, Liu says that the product itself will open up the sector to more people who are traditionally left out of tech jobs because they lack coding skills.I think its just as how we operate.

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