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Are these no-code solutions essentially Microsoft Access forms, but with a hosted database and mobile and web clients?

• commandlinefan 5y ago
  They also have drag-and-drop executable flowcharts built in. Undebuggable, unversionable, non-reusable executable flowcharts. They're as useful as you'd guess.
  • malux85 5y ago
    Yeah, and the small minority that manage to become bigger than a trivial app and become useful, become spaghetti diagrams of flow chart mess, so unmaintainable and fragile, nobody can modify it after “that guy” leaves. Then the whole thing has to be rewritten and maintained by an actual developer, and the whole exercise ends up being much more expensive
• mjrpes 5y ago
  I don't know what Bubble is trying to do, but it's certainly no where near as good as Access for data manipulation. In Access I can create all the tables I want, all the fields I want, define queries based on table relations, complex forms that let you show/edit/add data based on your complex data joins and subforms, and reports. In Bubble, I don't see any way to do this easily. I can't even create a datasheet without a plugin. It's a big market though. There are other options, like www.knack.com, that are more like Access and better for data manipulation.