What is the state of No-Code?
Hello fellow developers 👋🏼
I've been recently reviewing products for my newsletter and came across another no-code product (this one is building APIs from google spreadsheets). In the past few weeks, I also reviewed a product building landing pages from Notion sheets.
I think that some of the no-code niches are extremely attractive to Indie Hackers because there's currently no great unifying solution. It's still a fresh market.
On the other hand, as a non-technical person, you can't really rely on no-code products to build your product because you will have to use multiple no-code products along the way (more products = higher cost).
Where do you think this is going? Are we going to come up with a solution to rule them one or should we better focus on building a full solution for one niche (like CRMs, Site builders, Blog builders, etc)?
I think small and specialized no-code products (as, for example, the spreadsheet-to-API converter) are attractive as a product to build for an IndieHacker and they can also empower non-developers and probably do so more than all-encompassing no-code solutions because they don't overwhelm and just solve a specific use case.
Quickbase - I can basically run an entire company on it and get it to do anything. It has webhooks, REST API and also integrates via no-code using Workato or Zapier to connect it to thousands of other applications. I've made a living off it as a Quick Base Developer.
As someone that's built out a custom integration for a client using QuickBase, I'd definitely consider it "low-code" as opposed to no-code, which in my opinion is almost worse. Now there's a learning curve for both developers AND non-tech people. Yes, I'm salty. Hey all db-as-a-service apps, stop making me learn a bastardized version of SQL.
What are your favorite no code apps?