No-code founders are on the rise. Are they making money?
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No-code founders are on the rise. Are they making money?
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#3No-code is a funny term and I'm not sure what it means. I would understand if it was non-dev or something similar. But most "no-code" people I know who work on side projects can edit basic javascript/etc, but couldn't write much from scratch.
I'd imagine this group is the subset the author is looking at. If you want to look at people who actually can't code, they are likely non-technical, and not using a tool like zapier. They're startups probably look very different (consulting, etc).
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#4> Just imagine the same being true for coders: that 7 out of every 10 programmers you spotted at developer conferences or in the engineering departments of larger companies were really only making ends meet while starting their own businesses.
this is not a great comparison...
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#5I don’t really understand what “no code” is. You can put up a storefront and conduct business without writing a line of code, simply by adding plug ins to Wordpress, calling out to stripe etc. The result is somewhat templatized and slightly generic looking but that’s great: your value comes from the content, as the author correctly describes, and the visitor will presumably understand navigation etc.
This kind of process has decades of predecessors, from dbs like Delphi, Excel, to Emacs in the ‘70s to (so it was claimed at the time) FORTRAN.
Is “no code” meant to somehow imply something more?
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#6No-code platforms have always been a great way to put a MVP together. MVPs help you vet the idea before pouring real dollars into it. They are not meant to be the foundation for the product itself; those thinking otherwise have a very expensive refactor ahead of them!
I hear MVP thrown around like candy in the consulting I do. I _wish_ they started with no code!
Didn't some now-unicorn start its life as an email distribution list or spreadsheet?
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#7Whether code or nocode, if your solution can solve a valuable problem, u can make money.
Nocode tools are just equipments like your screw driver, cutter, etc. This question is like asking whether a repairman can make money. Of course he can!
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#8> No code
Sounds like a fancy (actually more like crappy) buzzword for using SaaS products as part of your website/business.
Source: reading https://www.makerpad.co/stories/mitchell-wright-how-lambda-s...
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#9This is really interesting. Are there any good tutorials for someone starting out? I would be interested in playing around with it.
Re: No-code founders are on the rise. Are they making money?
#10I don’t really understand what “no code” is. You can put up a storefront and conduct business without writing a line of code, simply by adding plug ins to Wordpress, calling out to stripe etc. The result is somewhat templatized and slightly generic looking but that’s great: your value comes from the content, as the author correctly describes, and the visitor will presumably understand navigation etc. This kind of pro…
Hopefully this isn't ungenerous, but it seems like a marketing/signaling term that people on places like indiehackers use to market their products. If it wasn't labeled as such, a nondescript framework with the plugins + content that you could build for the last 20 years wouldn't stand out. Bothers me that it is something that apparently people are proud of, they'd empower themselves a lot more by sitting down and picking up a basic framework, where they aren't limited by someone else. It's not as though they aren't capable.