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Hilal Aydın

Where do you stand about developing a web app on a no-code platform?

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We are currently building an automated task management app on Bubble.io. The platform is quite comprehensive, however as expected there are some limitations when it compared to native applications. I experienced that these limitations are easily resolvable by embedding some code inside, and no-code development definitely fastens the app development process. What do you think about no-code app development platforms? Have you used one before? Let's meet in the comments! 🚀
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Julian Burr
I think no-code tools are perfect to enable as many people as possible in a company to maintain websites, build automated workflows, etc. And on top of that, they will help you to really understand what exactly you need if you ever do hit the point where the no-code tools are not enough anymore, which makes it much easier and more efficient as a starting point to then build your own custom solutions.
Hilal Aydın
Hi @jburr90 I am working on a low-code app for some time now and I wasn't aware of how no-code platforms and discovering their limitations are prepared me to the transition to a native app until I saw your comment. I totally agree with you on that! Have you ever hit to the point where no-code was not enough for you? Please feel free to share your experiences 🚀
Julian Burr
@hilal_aydin I'm a software developer mostly working on saas apps, and i.e. one of the things I deliberately try to push for is to use no-code automation tools like Zapier as much as possible to test out potential integrations or automations within our apps. This makes it a lot easier to verify not only what we can automate from a product perspective, but also what users would be interested in. Once we verified what we need it's often better to build a proper integration, to cut out the need for users to have a Zapier account and to understand how to set things up there. In contrast to that, I still remember the days when marketing websites had to be built and maintained by the dev team, and I don't miss those days 😅 Having no- or low-code tools like Webflow in place not only allows designers to build those sites themselves, but also the rest of the company like the Marketing team to access and change it. No more bottlenecks!
Prashant Maurya
We are currently building on a no-code solution as an ecosystem product of Spheron called Buidlfy. It's a no-code UI tool for interacting and building smart contract interaction. No-code is the future and will always remain. Building no-code intends to reduce hiring time, product shipping time and expenses. In the later stage of the product, hire and build the custom interfaces.
Hilal Aydın
Hi @web3prashant I think we are on the same page. Thanks to no-code, building a product gains momentum at the starting point and you can build the product with less resources in shorter time horizon.
Takashi Yamamoto
Hi Hilal, I've used it to build landing pages, but I've never used it as a main product. However, I would like to try it, so I would like to refer to your efforts.
Hilal Aydın
Hi @takashiyamamoto I would recommend Bubble for building a main product, I think it is worth trying out.
Kevin Mihalik
Create a no-code company to empower every employee to automate workflows and create business apps in minutes
Hilal Aydın
Hi @kevin_mihalik I agree, no-code platforms and solutions really fastens the process of building apps.
Dan Costanza
I'm an engineer at heart, but to be honest, no-code is awesome. There are very few ideas that I wouldn't want to use a no-code tool to prototype & try to test product-market fit with first
Hilal Aydın
Hey @kiraz I also think that no-code tools are great to build a prototype, and I think these platforms are growing day-by-day and getting a point that in the near future we may not need that much code to build a product.
Ronni K. G. Christiansen
Check out Aesirx.io it's super relevant for your question.
Hilal Aydın
Hi @vikingtechguy I will definitely check it out!
Sanuj Bansal
Hi Hilal, I agree that every no-code platform have limitations in terms of functionalities. Being a developer I have very less experience in using such platforms, but nowadays I am more interested in learning about them. So, I discovered a few products like DhiWise and Overlay which can create applications through drag and drop AND you can download the high quality code for React.js, Flutter, Vue.js like libraries. This way we can overcome any limitation of no-code and speed up development as well. Since after downloading the code, you will have UI, code examples and best practices already available.
Hilal Aydın
Hi @sanuj_bansal I will definitely check out the platforms you mentioned. Especially DhiWise seems so good at integrating no-code and code together. As I mentioned in the description, I am currently using Bubble.io, it has some elements that you can use to embed HTML or Javascript in but it is not comprehensive as DhiWise or Overlay I guess. Thank you for sharing your experience!
Sanuj Bansal
@hilal_aydin If you happen to use one of them, I would definitely like to know about the experience
Hunter Carter
Maybe one day it will be a worthwhile strategy but today the downsides are massive. Not the least of which is technical debt.
Jack Long
good job
Finn Guha
That is actually a question I have asked myself a lot. When you learn coding and you are able to build a decent looking website, you might feel tempted to think that you do not need no-code. However, at least for me personally, this is just not true anymore. When building such concept systems, it seems reasonable to say that focusing on the functionality and design is better than focusing on how to structure your code. No-code platforms are the future and I will probably also use a no-code way of building the website for my own startup. However, it is still a necessity to learn coding these days. You will still develop things with code and the platforms we use to build website without writing code also use code to make this happen.
Hilal Aydın
Hey @vimfinn I totally agree with you! I believe that building low-code apps or combining no-code solutions with some code is the optimal solution especially in the early stages. As you said, you can really focus better on functionality and design with no-code when it is compared to coding.
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