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.
Absolutely—this captures the shift from automation to true creation perfectly!
Thanks. That shift kept coming up in almost every conversation at the stall.
“What 300 Builders Taught Us at BTS About the Future of App Building” is an inspiring read. It offers valuable insights, trends, and lessons from top developers, highlighting innovation, collaboration, and the evolving landscape of app development. Highly insightful!
Glad it resonated. Seeing builders connect the dots across UI, logic, and automation was the real eye opener.
At BTS, 300 developers made it clear: the future of app building is not just about speed, but real ownership. People want no-code platforms with drag-and-drop UI, automation, and one-click deployments — all in a single tool. The shift is toward creation, not just stitching workflows.
Exactly. People aren’t asking how to automate more, they’re asking how to build without juggling ten tools.
"Excellent read! This post provides valuable insights from 300 builders, offering a clear glimpse into the future of app development. Inspiring and full of practical takeaways for creators and innovators alike."
Thanks. The best part was hearing the same pain points repeat across founders, devs, and students.
Great vision! One quick question: are you integrating any AI automation for content suggestions?
If you want, I can share a setup that helps newsletters grow faster.
We are exploring it. Happy to hear what you’re using. Always curious about setups that actually move the needle.
“Fantastic insights! Hearing from 300 builders highlights key trends in app development—no-code tools, faster iteration, and collaboration. Exciting to see how the community shapes the future of building apps efficiently.”
Well said. The energy at BTS showed how quickly builders are moving toward unified creation environments.
“Great insights from BTS! Hearing from 300 builders really highlights the evolving landscape of app development. Trends like no-code/low-code, collaboration, and speed-to-market are shaping the future. It’s exciting to see how innovation and community-driven learning are empowering creators to build smarter, faster, and more impactful applications.”
Appreciate it. The community angle stood out the most. Builders were teaching each other right at the stall.
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.