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Co-founder of Reflect here: Thanks for the mention! I think a lot of people think of "no-code" tools as something exclusively for non-developers; things like W

Co-founder of Reflect here: Thanks for the mention! I think a lot of people think of "no-code" tools as something exclusively for non-developers; things like Webflow and Bubble for creating apps. I don't think that's ever really been the case, Zapier being a great example of that, but there's been a lot more tools coming to market in the past couple years that actually work well as a way to replace tedious code-based workflows. i.e. Use Retool instead of building UIs for internal apps, use Reflect to build automated tests instead of Selenium, etc.

cjv 5y ago
Reflect is a cool name, but nearly impossible to Google.
- pajop 5y ago
  I used these search terms "reflect no code" and the first hit was https://reflect.run https://reflect.run :) https://www.google.com/search?q=reflect+no+code https://www.google.com/search?q=reflect+no+code
istorical 5y ago
Yeah I'm a dev but was a team of one embedded within a sales and marketing org at a a medium-large size startup with a mandate to automate and find growth hacks for sales + marketing, and I was able to use Zapier with its Salesforce integration, google sheets integration, Twilio integration, Marketo integration to do a lot of work that I wouldn't have had time to build, support, and do maintenance on if I'd built a full backend application. All of what I did with Zapier could have been implemented with a database, a bunch of scripting, and cronjobs, but using Zapier saved oodles of time and meant I was outsourcing the maintenance to their API integrators rather than to myself. I was able to do so much with triggers and webhooks I can only imagine what is possible now with their more recent code blocks feature and adding better environment variables.
- juanplusjuan 5y ago
  sounds interesting! we’ve seen the same pattern across dozens of customers and are building a business on top of it. would love to chat if you’re down: juan [at] sayprimer.com

cjv 5y ago

Reflect is a cool name, but nearly impossible to Google.

pajop 5y ago
I used these search terms "reflect no code" and the first hit was https://reflect.run https://reflect.run :) https://www.google.com/search?q=reflect+no+code https://www.google.com/search?q=reflect+no+code

istorical 5y ago

Yeah I'm a dev but was a team of one embedded within a sales and marketing org at a a medium-large size startup with a mandate to automate and find growth hacks for sales + marketing, and I was able to use Zapier with its Salesforce integration, google sheets integration, Twilio integration, Marketo integration to do a lot of work that I wouldn't have had time to build, support, and do maintenance on if I'd built a full backend application. All of what I did with Zapier could have been implemented with a database, a bunch of scripting, and cronjobs, but using Zapier saved oodles of time and meant I was outsourcing the maintenance to their API integrators rather than to myself. I was able to do so much with triggers and webhooks I can only imagine what is possible now with their more recent code blocks feature and adding better environment variables.

juanplusjuan 5y ago
sounds interesting! we’ve seen the same pattern across dozens of customers and are building a business on top of it. would love to chat if you’re down: juan [at] sayprimer.com