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I think they are useful for a niche. At work we have a bunch of ‘excel’ apps for handling internal work. It’s really a mess and they frequently break down. Some

I think they are useful for a niche. At work we have a bunch of ‘excel’ apps for handling internal work. It’s really a mess and they frequently break down. Some are just CRUD interfaces for a database. For these things I really think something like this could be useful. Management wouldn’t have to force it on me. You don’t really run into issues because they never get more complicated then store this data into that. Or if this, show that. And if they do full re-write in real code.

411111111111111 4y ago
> For these things I really think something like this could be useful That's the thing though: you just think it could be, because it looks useful. I agree with the original point. The tech looks great on paper, but once you're actually doing more then a hello world example you'll quickly stumble upon a problem and it'll take ages to solve. Id suggest everyone to prefer excel over any low/no-code solution. They usually already have basic competency in it and it's much easier to find help when you come upon a problem. Unless they can code, then just write a simple PoC. It's not that hard with today's readily available frameworks
- Cwizard 4y ago
  I mostly see these low-code tools being useful for developers actually. Maybe it is because I am a backend developer but it always takes me quite some time to build even simple CRUD interfaces. I would assume with these tools I would just be a few clicks. Not sure if this is a general trend but the companies I worked at anything computer related is an IT problem. The non coders at my company would never try a tool like this they would ask someone from IT to do it for them. The idea would be that a tool like this makes that process faster a cheaper. And perhaps makes the UX of the end result better then an excel sheet full of macros.

411111111111111 4y ago

> For these things I really think something like this could be useful That's the thing though: you just think it could be, because it looks useful. I agree with the original point. The tech looks great on paper, but once you're actually doing more then a hello world example you'll quickly stumble upon a problem and it'll take ages to solve. Id suggest everyone to prefer excel over any low/no-code solution. They usually already have basic competency in it and it's much easier to find help when you come upon a problem. Unless they can code, then just write a simple PoC. It's not that hard with today's readily available frameworks

Cwizard 4y ago
I mostly see these low-code tools being useful for developers actually. Maybe it is because I am a backend developer but it always takes me quite some time to build even simple CRUD interfaces. I would assume with these tools I would just be a few clicks. Not sure if this is a general trend but the companies I worked at anything computer related is an IT problem. The non coders at my company would never try a tool like this they would ask someone from IT to do it for them. The idea would be that a tool like this makes that process faster a cheaper. And perhaps makes the UX of the end result better then an excel sheet full of macros.