No-code ops is the future
The way that Excel or Google Sheets is a standard requirement for many jobs today, Airtable and Zapier will be standard requirements in the near future.
More and more teams are utilizing no-code inside their business because it saves time, money, and empowers employees to solve their own problems.
Tools like Airtable and Zapier (and more) are giving non-technical employees the power of developers. And it frees up developer time to work on other problems for the business.
I wouldn't be surprised if in 3-5 years just about every company is hiring a "no-code ops" team, similar to the way they hire "business analysts" today.
I have seen one or two roles for no-code ops before though what would you say is the right skillset for something like this? The problem I often see is that to effectively use no-code at least in a reliable way you end up in low-code or some-hacky-code-to-make-this-work-for-our-use-case land very quickly by which point you need to be technical
I think Airtable, Zapier, Spreadsheet skills (Google Sheets/Excel), and understanding how to work with data is crucial (knowing SQL is always helpful).
Agree on SQL!
The interesting part of no-code solutions to me is that while yes, it is allowing non-technical employees the ability to do things themselves, it's also drastically supercharging my own capabilities as a designer or developer.
It's like wearing an infinity gauntlet and each new no-code solution is just another infinity stone added.
@zchry can you please share a couple of examples where, being a coder, you could see the advantage of a no code alternative?
Thanks!
Web design is the biggest shift for everyone. Services like Webflow have streamlined so many aspects of the design and development process, and then made the more technical details a lot easier to implement. The Webflow community churns out templates and functionality that saves you endless amounts of time from having to figure out on your own.
So for a non-technical user, Webflow allows them to make a simple site with ease. For a technical user, Webflow allows them to make something really complex and amazing in an incredibly short amount of time.
Basically, no-code solutions like Webflow are making coding easier.
Figma is another design service, but its also kind of a no-code solution. You can make amazingly elaborate mockups and templates in just a few clicks. In the hands of a designer or developer, you can expand on those abilities to do really amazing things you might not have even considered doing from scratch.
love these examples
I've spent my life in ops - mostly in large enterprises. I'd welcome the day no-code ops is possible, but it's easily 10-15 years out for sure. Most of these organizations aren't even on code ops, it's mostly manual and you're lucky if it's scripted.
it's possible!
I also would not be surprised when nocode ops is becoming a job on it's own 😎
What do you think will be the major building blocks for nocode? Besides tools like AirTable and Zapier?
Nocode ops are a job on its own as we speak. FINN is the example that comes to mind, they use Make/Integromat for virtually everything and got $25M in funding last year.
@martinstrategist how do you know that? Can you share more info about this? I am actually considering learning to code and these kind of examples make me wonder if it's not better to become really good with no code tools
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