GO OR NO GO #2 Low Code
GO OR NO GO #2 Low Code
Should you #nocode your app or outsource your development?
GO OR NO GO #2
Should you #nocode your app or outsource your development?
The problem🕵🏻♂️
Recreating wheels (and apps) wastes time, money, and energy:
At times where developers were the best-paid employees of any-sized company, startup, or big conglomerate, they were rare and very expensive. But, anyway, everybody needed one killer ass kick back-end developer to launch an app, sell products online, launch a startup, or even connect your robot to an AI. Almost as sudden as UX/UI, the no-code attitude became a thing! Coders would code a web app enabling anybody to design an app, website, startup, or anything really overnight. Not a single line of code or any specific skill to launch her/his idea. Just a few integrations and an incredible sense of management 🔦. I guess, a real entrepreneur’s skill.
The solution it provides💡
No-Code tools help you solve well-understood problems. Blogs, online stores, games, marketplaces, mobile apps, and more can be built without writing code.
Some key figures 📊
The global low-code development platform market is predicted to generate a revenue of $187.0 billion by 2030, rising from $10.3 billion in 2019, and is expected to advance at a fast pace, 31.1% CAGR, during the forecast period (2020-2030).
42% mention growth (Google News)
25% #keyword growth (Twitter, Reddit, Instagram,…)
2335 alternatives to building an app with code (Product Hunt)
Staying home and doing nothing boosted productivity by 18%.
The top actors 🔝
💯 Airtable is quite something in the no-code scene. It became THE reference of the trend, almost giving hope to some others (Fibery, Google tables, Notion…)
🕸 Designing a website is not just HTML and Javascript. It’s also an incredible UX experience. Webflow is obviously the monopole in this industry followed by his many rivalries: Too heavy to be WordPress, too amateur to be Wix, too commerce to be Shopify, too low key for a Squarespace.
Selling products online takes incredible design and marketing skills. Well, Sharetribe, Kreezalid. For that less computer savvy, there are Instagram, Facebook, or eBay platforms that let you sell products with ZERO code skill.
✍️ Say website, say blogs. Blogging about everything and anything became freedom on the internet. Medium and Substack is here to help you achieve the best content out there (don’t forget, Evernote disappeared 📢) So many customizable ways of beating suppression and your love of writing amazing stuff to the best readers. #freedomofspeech to that!
🎨 Editing tools are many to combat. The best, in my opinion, is the unbeatable Figma with its millions of ways of beating Adobe. Canvas is here too but doesn’t get me wrong, not as powerful! The new arrival is Makerpad.
📱 Designing an app is not as complicated as it seems. Obviously, you won’t be able to design the next Uber app with no-code but still, amazing results get out of Bubble, Glide, Ottho, Adalo, and Tabbli.
📡 Now, for the illegal stuff, this article will not be sponsored. Scrapping emails or contact addresses are 100% legal if, and only if, the page you are “stealing” data from is public. Octoparse, Web scrapper, and Phantombuster are cool to play around with.
I talked about integrations without defining it. Simple as that, every time you visit a website, there is a little cookie that pops up and tells you that “you have been tracked down”. Two days later, an ad on Instagram is on your wall offering you 50% off these beautiful recyclable Adidas. Well, integrations are a great way to connect 2, 5, 10, or millions of actions at the same time, enabling you to automize all your workflow. Zapier is properly the best tool ever for that, but tray.io and automate.io do the trick. A new actor in the market is emerging, meet AlfredUnito or Cloudcanal.
Designing a platform is a trend itself. Designing it with style is cooler. Think AWS, Heroku.
The small actors 🔜
Buildbox - design, build and publish your 3D & 2D mobile game without coding
Desk- Time management app
You should follow these use cases:
Coronaparty - the virtual party, love the name BTW!
Some predictions 🔮
Using no-code will be a competitive advantage. Saving time, money, and energy. Allowing you to build (and change) faster and cheaper than competitors.
No-code leads to bundling and unbundling. Sharetribe, Anchor, Podia, and Substack are monolithic. Studiotime, Swimmy, and Wheelprice are specific.
Democratize: anyone can build anything if they learn how to no code.
The opportunities it represent 💰
Two weeks to launch an app, made by yourself versus six months of product development between Indian developers and 120 emails of bullshit.
Start small with basic no-code tools like Card and Pory before moving on.
Join #100DaysOfNoCode for social accountability.
Start a no-code agency. Wit Suma, a Trends Pro member, launched a no-code agency building growth tools. See Thinkbox, BuildLab, Twindeavor, Luhhu, and Finsweet. Services can be your gateway to products and scalable income.
Use no-code tools to build a productized service. Lead Cookie ($50k/m) and Scribbly ($30k/m) use Zapier and Airtable. Jake Jorgovan works 5 hours a week. As Lead Cookie earns $50,000 a month. (Via Seth)
GO or NO GO?
With the no code invading most of the web, launching your startup is starting to be easier by the day. So, whether you are launching an MVP or testing your idea with your first customers, choose to learn how to no code. It’s a skill to have lately for any entrepreneur.
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Obviously, there is a limitation to no coding. So, if you have enough budget to outsource your development, do it! There are many developers in India, Lebanon, or even Croatia that will be happy to take on your challenge.
Trends born out of it 🧳
Internet, IOT if some experts are reading this. The internet helped to work with online tools, especially with recent RAM explosions. Think internet, think cloud spaces too! ☁️
🛒 Shopping online! You are able to buy any kind of product online through e-commerce, recommence, or marketplace just because designing it became so easy.
🧳 Nomadism. Being a nomad helped greatly with this hipster life of working remotely and travel the world at the same time.
💻 Sharing your screen. Working on synchronized screens helped during remote meetings with investors or CEOs.
😷 Covid19. Akh… not again! These types of viruses, omnipresent since the end of 2019, contributed to the trend to explode.
😏 Learn by doing. People learn by themselves, they are autodidact. Whether we talk about Airtable or Workflow, no need to learn the basics. There is no basics. The only thing you need to do is fail by trying and learn some tips, here and there. Check this out, it’s a really cool FREE web application to learn a skill by achieving quick and simple crash courses.
⛓ Blockchain. Blockchain is, by definition, open-source (don’t worry, this macro trend is gonna be covered in one of my next episodes). Soon, very soon, you’ll be able to create your personal blockchain, overnight, with 2 lines of code. Welcome to the 2-line-code era 😍.
🚀 Startups. Solving a problem is a trend itself! We’ll go over this MVP thing later but the growing number of +39% startups in a year sounds promising, especially for the no-code giants.
Some extra links 🔗
Who’s down to talk no-code? • The tweet behind this report.
How to Build - How to build Shopify, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Facebook, Amazon, Product Hunt and more without writing code.
Communities: Le chantier, Nocodefounders, Supertribe (gamers)
Hood maps - the TripAdvisor of no-coders and nomads
The Low-Code/No-Code Movement: More Disruptive Than You Realize
Everything You Need to Build Web and Mobile Apps Without Code.
Ottho est le leader de l’apprentissage pour créer votre application sans code
Serendipity as a Service (Random Pizza) - No-code tools help Whit Anderson build and operate RandomPizza.
Small Teams - A list of teams behind billion-dollar companies. Abstraction breeds leverage.
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