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maxwin | 5 years ago

I feel like these no-code companies are a bit ahead of their time and focusing on the wrong audience. Instead of focusing on end user/business user, they should focus on developers. Please create tools (code or not) that make it really easy and fast to create CRUD apps for developers. There hasn't been good ones available. Empower developers first. Last time I check, no business user would want to create an app no matter how easy it is.

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tmpz22|5 years ago

The stone cold truth is that if something is capable of generating value it will inevitably afford a developer to extend, improve, or maintain it - at which point the developer will instead develop stomach ulcers trying to maintain complex logic that would be infinitiely easier had it been built with standard software practices. Finally, it will be refactored, rewritten, or outright replaced, at great cost with actual code at one point or another.

Zero code is most often a corner that should not be cut at any medium or large enterprise - and guess where all the money selling SaaS or IaaS products comes from?

arey_abhishek|5 years ago

Since you mentioned tools for developers, we are building a project for developers called Appsmith. https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith. It's a low code product to build internal tools. You can connect UI components to APIs or DBs. Any logic can be written in JS.

save_ferris|5 years ago

That goes against the whole “no developer needed” mentality that a lot of those services tout, which is a big selling point. I agree with you in that there’s a big need to improve developer tools, though.