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I work in low-code and make a tool so I know this area fairly well. I can't think of any proper product made with no-code tools now but I can think of many that
by RyanHamilton 2y ago
I work in low-code and make a tool so I know this area fairly well. I can't think of any proper product made with no-code tools now but I can think of many that started with low-code and I imagine you can too. Think of every internal application that started as a spreadsheet, or a single web page, maybe even static.
What I tell my potential customers is, that it's a pyramid of effort vs exploration. At the bottom you have a wide base of possibilities you want to explore, at the top of the pyramid you have a proper polished product. What low-code allows you to do is try many more experiments at the bottom and to maintain them at cheaper cost. Most will stay as internal tools and never become a real product but some will.
For example my tool is letting data analysts in crypto firms built out internal trading controls, trade monitoring and alerts within days and weeks. The happiest customers I have are ones that were about to hire a UI guy. It let's them delay that hire. Then when they want to provide end client interfaces or seroiusly improve a low-code version to a separate polished app, they hire the UI expert and even better the UI person can see roughly what is needed.
The alternative isn't always between polished app and low-code, it's between apps that may never get built and low-code.