What 300 Builders Taught Us at BTS About the Future of App Building
After three long days at the Bangalore Tech Summit, one thing became obvious.
People aren’t just looking for faster tools. They’re looking for complete tools.
We kept hearing the same reactions again and again:
“Can I build a full app without coding?”
“I’ve never seen UI and automations in one tool.”
And the big one
“How is this different from n8n?”
The crowd wasn’t just curious. They were bringing their teammates to the stall. Lines were forming. Students wanted to build real apps. Developers said this would save hours every week.
The common pain points were the same across founders, devs and students:
- Current tools feel slow and limited
- Too many apps needed to build one simple thing
- No real ownership or visibility
- Automations are easy, but building a usable product is not
What excited them the most was also clear:
- A drag and drop UI that non devs could use
- One click deployments
- And the promise that what they create is fully theirs
If anything, this event proved that the market is shifting.
People want creation, not just automation.
They want ownership, not just speed.
And they want to build real software, not stitched workflows.
I’m curious to hear from this community too:
Do you feel today’s tools are limiting you?
What’s the biggest bottleneck when you try to build something fast?
The next wave of tools will be shaped by these answers.
The pain points you captured are things we see every day. Internal tools take too long because we end up stitching APIs, dashboards and workflows across multiple products. If a platform can handle UI and backend automation together while still keeping things transparent, that’s a real shift.
Totally agree. Every team ends up stitching things just to get basic workflows running. Our goal is to remove that overhead so builders can focus on the actual product instead of the glue work.
Coming from a core IT environment, I can relate to many of the points you highlighted. Our teams often hit bottlenecks because UI, automation and deployment sit in different systems with different owners. A platform that brings these layers together can reduce a lot of cross team friction and shorten delivery cycles. Interested to see how this evolves for larger tech teams.
You put it perfectly. The split ownership across UI, automation and deployment slows teams more than people admit. We’re trying to remove that cross team friction so delivery feels more direct and predictable.
What you observed at BTS is accurate. Most automation platforms help with tasks, but they don’t help teams actually build usable software. When UI, logic and data sit in different tools, everything slows down. A unified space makes sense, especially for small teams trying to move fast.
Exactly. Automation alone doesn’t give you a usable product. Once UI and logic sit together, things move faster and teams stop context switching between tools that were never built to work in sync.
The reaction from students and developers doesn’t surprise me. Beginners want a quick way to build real apps, and experienced devs want more control without fighting black box systems. If one tool can balance both, it usually signals the direction the ecosystem is heading.
This is the pattern we noticed too. Beginners want speed, experienced devs want control. If one platform can serve both without hiding how things work, it opens up a new way to build.