Mars is a devtool (Dev Tool) that lets you start building using No-Code and zero coding skills as long as you stay within the scope of existing micro apps. For example, you can 100% No-Code an Uber-like marketplace. However, if you need to make something completely custom, you need to use the Mars Code interface that lets you enter a proper full-scale coding IDE and create your custom logic. So, unlike Bubble, Mars won't let you build anything with No-Code. Why didn't we make it just like Bubble? Because we believe that the project should start as No-Code and it needs to be simple, so you do not need to pass the course and study in the academy. Once you overgrow the No-Code capabilities it makes sense to switch to Code. If you are using other No-Code tools, you would have to just throw away everything you've made and start building from scratch using custom programming technics. The main innovation behind Mars is that once you overgrow the No-Code, you can just switch the coding interface from No-Code to Code. You will not lose anything you've built, not the data, not the logic. You can even continue building simple parts using No-Code and more complicated parts using Code.

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Mars engine is free and open-sourced on GitHub, it runs under https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. However, the micro-apps are built by third parties and may have free or premium pricing models.

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No, there is no vendor lock. You can run Mars on your servers, on your local machine, or closed network. It is 100% open-sourced. It can be deployed on a Windows, Linux, or any other server technology. The entire mars project complies down to a simple JS server. However, we offer mars cloud hosting, which is the most convenient way of deploying mars apps.

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Traditional programming technologies aren't suitable for building software on top of full-stack micro-apps. Developers can use libraries, however, the micro-apps are not the same as a library. The library can only focus on either data, backend or frontend. But it cannot focus on all of it at once. The Mars Micro-App goes far beyond a library. It combines the database, backend, frontend (native IOS, Android, Web), Admin pages, CMS, Analytics, and a lot more. So, on Mars developers can write code on top of the Micro-Apps such as Authentification, NFT marketplace, e-commerce marketplace, Social Network, and more. Are there libraries that can cover the entire domain as those mentioned above? NO. So using Mars can reduce the amount of code that developers need to write by up to 90%. Instead of writing 100.000 lines of code by 4 developers, 9 months. On Mars, the same project would typically be done by just 1 Martian in 3 months and 10.000 lines of code.

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