Very interesting post. Its fascinating how far no-code has come. I think we will se an interessting shift in the developer market. All the easy "crud" applications will move to no-code like all the easy websites went to wordpress. For developers its becomming more and more important to focuse on the complex problems.
The biggest downsite on the actuall no-code tools is that you don't own them. So if zapier decides to delete your account your whole business is down. That is something I would not like to risk for a real business.
I totally agree - trends in the tech market definitely suggest that developers need to focus on tougher problems. I do think though, that this also presents an opportunity for developers to keep "productizing" various things that were earlier written in code. It could various small niches that generate a decent amount of revenue each month.
The biggest downsite on the actuall no-code tools is that you don't own them. So if zapier decides to delete your account your whole business is down. That is something I would not like to risk for a real business.
Thanks for this - I never thought of it this way! Hmmm, it is tricky to be honest, now that you put it that way. I haven't heard of such situations happening - doesn't mean it won't happen in the future though. Would be interested to know if someone has heard of someting like this happen - not just with Zapier but any other tool too.
I was very excited to dive into the no-code movement and as a coder my biggest concern was taking weeks to months for getting a product ready. I give that exact stack a shot and had two main concerns - one is pricing especially with Zapier costing $49 for only 2k zaps and the other is extensibility mostly on the backend site. I wrote a blog post for this topic that goes into details. In fact I was so passionate about this exact problem that I build a tool that allows to create a nocode backends using production ready databases like Firestore and EasyDB.
Very interesting post. Its fascinating how far no-code has come. I think we will se an interessting shift in the developer market. All the easy "crud" applications will move to no-code like all the easy websites went to wordpress. For developers its becomming more and more important to focuse on the complex problems.
The biggest downsite on the actuall no-code tools is that you don't own them. So if zapier decides to delete your account your whole business is down. That is something I would not like to risk for a real business.
Thanks Max.
I totally agree - trends in the tech market definitely suggest that developers need to focus on tougher problems. I do think though, that this also presents an opportunity for developers to keep "productizing" various things that were earlier written in code. It could various small niches that generate a decent amount of revenue each month.
Thanks for this - I never thought of it this way! Hmmm, it is tricky to be honest, now that you put it that way. I haven't heard of such situations happening - doesn't mean it won't happen in the future though. Would be interested to know if someone has heard of someting like this happen - not just with Zapier but any other tool too.
I was very excited to dive into the no-code movement and as a coder my biggest concern was taking weeks to months for getting a product ready. I give that exact stack a shot and had two main concerns - one is pricing especially with Zapier costing $49 for only 2k zaps and the other is extensibility mostly on the backend site. I wrote a blog post for this topic that goes into details. In fact I was so passionate about this exact problem that I build a tool that allows to create a nocode backends using production ready databases like Firestore and EasyDB.