Ask HN: Anyone built a business with no-code tools?

Here's a few companies built only on no-code/low-code products: 1. Makerpad 2. Lambda school 3. Ondeck

There are a lot of consulting services exclusively focused on building for Outsystems, Mendix, Webflow, Bubble, Zapier, Wix.com, IBM Apex, Appsheet, and Shopify platforms.

The number of entrepreneurs building on low code/no code platforms probably runs into hundred of thousands. Maybe even more if you count the consulting businesses built for the Salesforce Lightning platform.

I run an open source low code platform to build internal apps called Appsmith[0]. We know dozens of consulting companies who've built Appsmith apps for their clients. I bet every fast growing low code/no code product has small businesses built on it because the tech consulting market is just so huge.

[0]https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith

Currently advising a friend who is building a business and my approach was for them to go totally no-code. None of the employees at the startup have tech-experience so I've proposed Airtable as the core of the product. It is essentially disability support. Anyone do something similar or have any advice?

You can do powerbi and a dashboard or probably similar in google spreadsheets I'd figure with external data source.

You should also include a general net worth, daily net gain, weekly net gain on 7 day lag, and monthly/quarterly to see how you're really doing. Just the number and a basic chart can do so much more to clear it up.

Etsy and BTC, congrats, same here too.

What I did was create a general dashboard, of my daily net worth and also gone as far as see my daily spend - I setup email alerts on my credit card, withdrawls and used O365 flow to capture the number and append it to a spreadsheet which then is pushed to the dashboard on a hourly cadence.

Bank accounts value Stocks Crypto Housing equity (this one is static, just took value and apply a custom appreciation rate, low, but figue if 3% annual is correct, just divide by 12, and do it monthly) Gross Revenue/Paycheck income. Daily Spend Daily spend average.

But I admit it is different from just tracking investments, hopefully this post makes sense, I feel like I went off quite a bit.

Because authentication is coupled to authorization and authorization is coupled to business rules and data access. If your program does not deal with business rules and data access then it is probably a single-user program (that does not need authentication).

I'm over-simplifying of course, but these things sound simple until you ask all the "but-then" and "what-if". If someone actually makes them simple in a way that still lets me cover those cases I'll be the first to stop writing authN/authZ code.

What tools do you use the most?