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In my opinion - "No Code" tools will fix this gap to build real world apps yet being as simple as excel. While airtable is just a DB as a service, a real no co
by kinj28 7y ago
In my opinion - "No Code" tools will fix this gap to build real world apps yet being as simple as excel.
While airtable is just a DB as a service, a real no code tool would have ideally all the basic building blocks:
a. DB as a service (like Airtable)
b. BPM capability -> to add workflows to the data
c. Ui Building to abstract data
d. API integration (may not advanced learning for power users)
- collyw 7y agoExcel is the closest we have come to no code tools and its been around for years. Ms Access actually has a fairly decent way to build apps without really touching code, but it requires understanding relational databases enough to use it properly. Most (non technical) people end up using excel as a database instead.
- gmueckl 7y agoI haven't looked at Access lately, but when I was forced to use it extensively, there were limits tonhownfar you could push input validation without writing VBA. So I suspect that most Access databases have severe issues with data consistency. But at least the data is structured.
- akavi 7y agoAirtable has blocks for c) and exposes an API for d) Not sure what you specifically want for b)