I want to confirm a product idea. I've already interviewed a few potential users and launched a landing page (https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/fast-feedback) to gauge interest. Now I need to build a small prototype.
This is to be a small app: there will be 2 forms and it should have the ability to send emails based on said forms' content.
Here's the user flow:
You'll notice there is a lot of emails going around. The idea is that, by removing the need for user auth and a database from the scope, I could ship it faster.
I was looking into Webflow and Bubble to make this. I'm finding them a bit pricey and the learning curve is steep: I keep getting stuck trying to feed User A's email into a hidden field of the 2nd form.
But perhaps I'm not using the right tools.
Is the process listed above a good use case for no-code tools?
If so what no-code tools should I use to build this fast?
As a first pass, you could hack this together using any survey tool (e.g. Typeform), a tabular "database" (Airtable, Coda, GSheets), and an automation tool (e.g. Zapier) to complete this loop.
Once you've validated the core loop and the simple automation isn't keeping up, you should evaluate shifting to a more robust, low-code platform (e.g. Webflow/Bubble) or a custom solution (e.g React/JS).
Thanks!
I'm actually going straight to bubble (the nice folk at Reddit helped me get unstuck)
It's kind of weird how No Code was supposed to make creating an app easier, but the trade-off is the complexity of coordinating many different tools.
Even with nocode / lowcode, there are a lot of moving parts required to get something deployed and live. As Bubble etc. improve their developer tooling and experience, more and more of the DIY crowd will consider skipping the glue-and-tape phase and just spring for a customizable, prebuilt solution to the coordination complexity you mentioned.
The tech has come leaps and bounds in the past few years and I'm very bullish on low code, but (mostly) free is hard to beat for many, while the tech catches up.