In A World Of Vibe Coding Startups, Uno Platform Is Targeting Enterprise Developers

Amid nan emergence of caller AI-powered debased codification developer devices aimed astatine hobbyists and non-technical folks, Uno Platform is doubling down connected endeavor developers instead.

Montreal-based Uno Platform offers a suite of enterprise-grade devices for developers to build cross-platform .NET applications that tin beryllium supported connected Android, Apple, Linux, and Windows systems. Users codification an exertion erstwhile and Uno Platform makes it easy to vessel different types of applications from nan existing codebase.

“If you’re coding thing erstwhile and it useful connected 5 different platforms connected desktop, web, and mobile, you’re getting 5x nan productivity already,” Uno Platform co-founder and CEO Francois Tanguay told TechCrunch.

Uno Platform is not nan only app developer instrumentality level available, but Tanguay thinks it stands retired successful a marketplace flooded by vibe coding platforms for illustration Lovable and Cursor. For Tanguay, endeavor developers should person entree to productivity devices too.

“Everything we are shipping hasn’t been done earlier and we for illustration we person a clear roadworthy representation successful position of really we tin adhd those other capabilities make everybody 10x faster,” Tanguay said. “Nobody’s capturing that marketplace yet successful nan endeavor space.”

The two-year-old startup’s endeavor attraction has attracted customers and investors. Uno Platform conscionable raised a C$3.5 cardinal ($2.54 million) seed backing information co-led by AQC Capital and Desjardins Capital pinch information from Scott Hanselman, nan vice president of Microsoft’s developer community, successful summation to different angel investors.

The superior will thief Uno rotation retired its premium tooling tier, Uno Platform Studio, and caller feature, “Hot Design” which allows developers to region a moving exertion and alteration its personification interface successful existent time.

Tanguay said they wanted to build Uno Platform to beryllium arsenic seamless to usage and adjuvant arsenic moving pinch an consulting agency, which is precisely really nan institution sewage started successful nan first place.

Tanguay founded Nventive successful 2008 arsenic a consulting agency to build apps for companies correct arsenic apps were becoming nan adjacent basking technology. After a fewer years, Nventive started processing nan suite of devices that yet became Uno Platform because nan agency was looking for ways to make itself much efficient, Tanguay said.

Nventive launched Uno Platform arsenic an unfastened root toolbox successful 2018. The unfastened root organization could thief nan agency support up pinch often changing operating systems that were perpetually releasing caller versions that required Uno Platform to tweak its offerings.

“We person complete a 100 cardinal downloads of platform, thing we wouldn’t person been capable to do conscionable by ourselves,” Tanguay said. “It was really betting connected nan unfastened source, arsenic a community, to thief turn that inaugural and stake that others would spot nan aforesaid worth successful having entree to a toolbox for illustration this.”

Tanguay was correct and nan institution has much than 300 unfastened root contributors. Nventive decided to afloat rotation retired nan instrumentality container and created Uno Platform successful 2023. Since then, nan institution has started moving pinch endeavor customers, including Toyota, Microsoft and TradeZero, among others.