Reasons
No-Code makes building products more accessible.
Questions
Duplicating work wastes time, money, and energy.
Answers
No-code tools help you automate work and build products faster, cheaper, and better, without writing code.
Gamers
No-code tools:
- Zapier: Connect apps and automate workflows.
- Webflow: Build websites.
- Bubble: Build web apps.
- Bildr: Web3 tools, templates, and building blocks.
- Juicebox: Funding for people and projects.
- Aragon: Build a DAO.
Apps:
- Lanva: Create shareable videos.
- Teal: Manage the job application process.
- Dividend Finance: Finance solar and home improvement projects.
- Virtual Ghost Writer: Resolve writer’s block.
Who to follow:
- Ben Tossell: Makerpad.
- KP: Build in public.
- Naya Moss: Frauvis.
- Max Haining: 100 days of no-code.
- Yücel Faruk Sahan: Komunity
- Doc Williams: Build with me.
- Fırat Demirel : Girisimleri.net
- Mustafa Dalcı: Userspot
Estimates
- No-code tools will give individuals more leverage. This leads to smaller firms, and more million-dollar, one-person businesses. Newsletter writers, podcast hosts, and course creators benefit from no-code tools.
- No-code tools will make Web3 building more accessible. Fractional helps you fractionalize NFTs. MintGate helps you sell token-gated content. NFTX helps you build liquidity pools for NFTs.
- The types of products that you can build with no-code tools will expand. Blogs, online stores, and marketplaces are table stakes. SaaS, mobile apps, games, cryptocurrencies, and DAOs are becoming easier to build.
Changes
- Build a portfolio of work to break into no-code. Show proof of work to land a job or clients for your agency. Héctor Reyes built and sold Coda templates before joining the Coda team. Lola documents her no-code journey on the Lunch Pail Labs podcast. Doc Williams makes no-code tutorials.
- Join a no-code community. Meet peers, build habits, and discover opportunities. See No Code MBA, NoCodery, and Nucode.
- Automate tasks to save time and build no-code skills. What are your routine, boring tasks? Zapier, IFTTT, and Integromat have thousands of integrations. Here are some ideas: Automatically share Instagram posts to Twitter, get alerts when new leads come in, or track Shopify orders in Slack.
- Start a no-code agency. Time-to-revenue for services is shorter than products. See Minimum Studio, 8020, Lunch Pail Labs, and Finsweet. Build the first version of your product with a no-code tool. No-code helps you validate ideas faster and cheaper. Alex is building a video editing app Lanva and with Bubble.
Risks
- Platform risk: What if a no-code tool shuts down, changes policies, or gets acquired? Unlike open source frameworks (such as Ruby on Rails and React), most no-code tools are closed source.
- Missing concepts: No-coders may not understand database design at first. This can lead to technical debt. Or is it non-technical debt?
Key lessons
- You don’t have to understand how everything works to use it. Most developers have not built an operating system or programming language, yet they use them. You can use no-code tools without understanding every aspect.
- No-code gives you a competitive advantage. Why recreate the wheel? No-code apps are easier to build and maintain.
- No-code is a gateway drug to code. Building end-to-end products with no-code tools helps you become comfortable with code.
Hot takes
- The no-code movement will create more developers, not less. No-code is on-ramp for those initially intimidated by code.
- The best developers focus on outcomes. They don’t have not-invented-here syndrome. They embrace no-code tools, keep things DRY, and understand opportunity costs.
Haters
“There’s code under the hood. Why is it called no-code?”
There’s code, but you can build things without writing code.
“No-code apps can’t scale.”
Most can. The need to scale is a good problem to have. Most products don’t get that far, anyway. Solve it when you get there.
Links
- Who should I talk to about no-code? The tweet behind this report.
- The No-Code Movement: See how no-code affects your ability to bootstrap.
- Building the Future of No-Code: On the possibilities of no-code and crypto.
Source: https://indiehackers.com/
