Drop your lessons and tips from your experience of working with no-code tools!
Bonus points if you suggest a tool that can be helpful with specific tasks.
Yes!! I used Typedream to build out www.atompay.me.
Used for: Building out a website / landing pages
Why Better? We wanted a web builder that was easy enough for anybody on the team to update and make changes fast. Our entire team uses Notion, so using Typedream was completely natural.
Hey Sharath,
Built https://www.readsomethingfunny.com/ using entirely no code stack. Launched it on PH yesterday as well!
1. Front-end - Softr
2. Back-end - Airtable
No-code is the future of building products. Any no-code tool for building bots? (Especially Twitter bots)
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No code tool is nice to learn. but still did not launch any product yet.
Can't say more good things about no-code. I worked in big tech for several years as a PM and we could have saved a lot of time/money by spinning up new apps using no-code before making decisions on whether to invest with an eng team.
Great website here to see what tools are best for your use case: https://www.nocodesetup.com/
I am currently using Softr.io and Airtable for an app I hope to launch on Product Hunt soon.
👀 This discussion looks very interesting...
Full development vs no-code for poc.
The former - Full development - requires speciality in web dev and takes months or years. But, We get full control and create anything we want if we have skills.
The latter - no-code - requires less speciality and takes less times. And there are a lot of tools around. webflow, stripe, calendly, cloudflare, github, zapier, etc are ultimately useful. But, the down side is less control for building tools.
I am curious about which one is the best for MVP, and useful tools for development.
I made my personal website (https://almost.design) last year using blocs (https://blocsapp.com), a no code website builder based on bootstrap. Highly recommended if you plan on making a basic website.
Just starting out my career in design, this helped me learn the basics of web dev, which in turn helped me build this website (https://thursday.social) with complete ownership and control over my design.
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I've tried several tools but quickly understood that it's easier to learn to code than to build what I want combining scrappy standard out-of-the-box blocks from the no-code tools.
It's almost impossible to personalize and finetune most of these blocks exactly the way you want, and you have to learn very specific settings that each no-code platform uses. Unlike code, these skills are non-transferrable.
Once you learn at least one language, you can easily add new languages to your stack - they use similar logic, that is clear and straightforward. In a way, it is beautiful, like math. And they also have a big online community, where you can find answers to your questions and even chunks of code that you just need to copy and paste. Try that with the no-code tools: once you need something a bit different from the standard solution - well, you're out of luck)
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