Zerocode conference - why not made with nocode
Dear Nocode Member,
I began to think nocodes were just marketing hype. I asked why they didn't use their own platform. In this case it's a bubble. and the organizer is zeroqode. which always sells "themes clone" "twitter clone" "airbnb clone" without code.
how surprised why they use another platform which is built with code. namely https://app.pinetool.ai/
why zeroqode as the organizer does not use the plugins they made or use the themes they created themselves. I became pessimistic about no code movement. Are they unable to handle many current users simultaneously?
I as a developer see platforms no code, like a little joke. In fact, this big conference should be able to show developers that their node platform can compete with code.
i could be wrong. This is just my opinion as a developer. and those who have always adored the nocode movement.
Someone can explain to me. Why?
Hi @pruptu,
thanks for posting the question
Levon here from Zeroqode - organise of Zero Code Conference! :)
Thanks @nunopoco and @tbotnar for your perspectives - both are valid.
The reason why we chose Pine as a platform for running the conference is not that it's not possible to build something like that without code - but it's Pine's deep experience and expertise with conference software. That's what they focus on and they've run hundreds if not thousands of online and offline events and know exactly what and how should be created/configured in order to host a conference very smoothly. They worked for years on polishing the user experience, fixing bugs and improving the platform with user feedback. So as @tbotnar mentioned it wouldn't worth the time and effort for us to build all that just to host a 2 day event. Nor would we be able to build same level app - not for the technical issues, but for the lack of experience and feedback etc. So instead we decided to focus our effort on something that only we can do - build no-code templates etc, organising the conference and brining all the no-code community.
For the same reason we chose Eventbrite to manage our tickets although we could have built the functionality ourselves (for the next conf we might as well do just that but for this one we wanted to keep things simple as organising a conference of that level is no ordinary task in itself). We also use tons of other tools in our day to day operations that we technically could have built ourselves - Asana for project management, Harvest for billing etc etc. These companies focus all their resources into a single product and make it perfect. We'd have to spread our resources thin across all kinds of different projects while still wouldn't be able to achieve the same level of greatness :)
Hope this answers your question and gives you more perspective on building your own thing vs using something that's already out there.
Would be happy to answer any other questions should you have any.
Thanks! :)
Hi pruptu,
As a dev you might be seeing things from the technical side.
Nocode as a movement is interesting and will be huge, in my opinion, because you now have tools for non-technical people to get their most important business needs met without spending too much time and money developing software.
In time this might evolve to a full-fledged app or website, but if things don't develop as expected, they can scratch it and move on knowing the investment of time and money was smaller.
So one thing isn't a substitute for the other.
As for the conference platform it's still nocode.
They're using a platform that already has their needs met, because the goal is not to build an event platform but to discuss the use of these kind of tools using one, while probably connecting it to all kinds of systems like email marketing, sms notifications, etc.
I'm not saying that they're doing it or not, but there's a possibility you don't know the full stack being used by them.
If I was to run a conference, I wouldn't want to build a whole platform out just to run the conference for 2-3 days. It'd take a couple weeks/more than a month to build out a full-fledged app, making it look nice and functional, for a 2-3 day event.
So I understand why they would go the route of running it on a different platform than theirs.