Every once in a while, a startup like this comes in, writes some advertorial blog post like this to promote their usually proprietary no-code platform. "The fut

Every once in a while, a startup like this comes in, writes some advertorial blog post like this to promote their usually proprietary no-code platform. "The future is here, no code YAYY!". I WANT to believe this, it will make life easy for consultants and IT heads like me if it actually didn't have some important short-comings. The first and most obvious one is proprietary - difficult to migrate logic. Once you sign up for these platforms, it's a death trap with no way out. Sure, you got to market faster than you competitors, but now you want to build your API for a government/large client? Whoops, you better have a billion dollars because we charge you per request or some other insane pricing model. Oh, you want to customize your logic? You have to use this specific workaround that doesn't just make sense. Oh you want this particular feature X for Apple? Nope, sorry, we don't support it. The most important of all - as a consequence of the lock in - When we have a 3 day outage because our engineer had a beer on Friday night and pushed a deployment, we take down your entire business with us! Nope, you can't even do a thing except watch all those cancellations on Stripe due to our mistake. Guess we'll give you a $20 rebate on your next billing cycle for our troubles. Sorry! Like I said, I WANT to support no code movement. It WILL make my life so much easier if it actually worked the way I wanted it to: 1. No BS workarounds if I ever wanted customizability. 2. No lock in, I want to deploy across multiple cloud vendors for redundancy. Your deployments should not have to affect mine. The only way it could work is if you used a hosted image that is kind of open source that I can build and deploy on top of. No depending on you for everything. The almost real no code exprience I was super impressed with was the one demo I saw using Open AI that actually wrote an entire portion of React code base with just a few clicks. Such a platform (if it exists) not only gives me full control of the code (If I want to), but I don't have to depend on you for deployments so you can charge me insane pricing for server costs, etc. Until then, thanks, but no thanks. No code only looks attractive for demos and investor slides, but for IT people like me, I'll pass, no thanks.