Why did you learn No-Code?

With no background in programming, I'm building a platform for film photographers using no code. Two main reasons:

1. Speed to implement ideas: in the MVP iteration phase, this is absolutely crucial. As soon as I have a feature idea, I can build it in 30 minutes, release it to beta testers, and measure how it performs after a few days. This complete lack of friction in the product development is any entrepreneur's dream!
2. No alternative! I never got lucky meeting a technical cofounder, and I don't have the money to pay a developer. So I just do it myself.

For me it was about having freedom to express my ideas in a digital way!

I created a no-code platform for SaaS startups that want to scale because my last venture-backed startup failed as it took 8 months to build and launch from code

Mainly because I wanted to work out my own ideas, instead of depending on others. No-code is so empowering 💪

Easiest way to build MVP

let's go!

No code has its ups and downs. More positives than negatives

I don't usually go the no-code route, but I will say that I've been very impressed with Stripe's no-code options. I've used their payment link pages before. It was super simple and quick to set up.

I saw earlier today that they now have something similar for setting up subscription pages. I'll likely look into using them on future projects that require subscriptions.

As a developer, I'm starting to pay more attention to no-code services. They keep getting better and better.

this is amazing you will become more independent and saves much of your money which you are paying to the dev team!

It also helps you to work fast as you wish, but on the other hand, you are totally dependent on them if you need a little change it took hours/days and some time weeks.

It gives you power and independence (creative, financial and geographical)

That's all

I dabbled in coding but the learning curve seemed so steep. To built anything useful I felt that I would have had to sink 1000's hours in my spare time which put me off.

No Code meant I could cut that down to 100's hours. Within 3 months of learning about Bubble.io I had built my MVP and had my 1st paying customer, still blows my mind 🤯

No-code tools make it easy and affordable to test/validate ideas with prospective customers!

I wanted to build my own ideas, so I find the no-code tools and now I build what I want.
Soon I hope to make a lot of money with my projects.

Very similar, I wanted to build my own ideas. While I do have an interest in coding and I am studying it, getting to the point where I'd be able to fully deliver an app and my ideas would take way too long - it was actually frustrating. No-code allowed me to have that already while sutying on the side.

what do you mean by " ridiculous price quote" ? what was the developer time expected to be spent on that project? And what was the pay per hour ?

As a general rule:
Developers are expensive. Good software takes time to build.

Provides me freedom to try and test things and build very simple apps very quickly

Heya, no-code gives more freedom, you don't need to be a tech person to create something cool. I've tried and it has been done successfully.
Now I am working at zeroqode.com