Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by corobo » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:30 AM UTC

sideproject wrote: post #28

I've been running Newsy myself to host all of my unused domain names. https://www.newsy.co Newsy takes an unused domain name and turn it into a content-aggregator (i.e. Reddit clone) with lots of features built in including membership, automated newsletters, HTTPS, using GMail for your domain etc. I built Newsy because I had close to 50 unused domain names but had no time to develop them. Newsy lets me quickly build…

> Newsy takes an unused domain name and turn it into a content-aggregator (i.e. Reddit clone)

Who would want this though? I can't picture a reason to want to do this, it just sounds like the spam that shows up in searches sometimes that I instantly back out of

> I built Newsy

Ah

Maybe I'm picturing something more spammy than it is but I don't think I'd ever want to use this, I'd rather the domain didn't resolve

e: I felt harsh posting this, but having seen one of the sites you are actually rehosting the content you aggregate too, it's worse than I pictured haha. This is spam.

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by desertraven » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:36 AM UTC

anaganisk wrote: post #10

desertraven wrote: post #6

I'm not sure if it fits the criteria, but Hasura has made backends considerably quicker to build.

But can we call it no-code?

I think the platform itself could be considered no-code since there's not requirement to use the "graphiQL" editor.

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by jamexcb » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:47 AM UTC

We made https://www.kalipsostudio.com/ a low code app to generate Android/iOS/Win/Win CE/Win Mobile (They are still out there lol). Our focus is with mobile native apps not Web/server/backend apps. It's manly used for logistics, erp interface, shop floor, military, mobile sales, etc... you don't need to learn a new language but we assume that you know your way with SQL.

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by lianna-vba » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:48 AM UTC

santa_boy wrote: post #4

Bubble.io is fantastic for making business applications. We find performance can often be an issue and typically transfer processing activities to external infra (incl. serverless functions)

I've been using Bubble for a few years for a side project. I always thought I'd use it just for the MVP phase but haven't had a need to move off it yet. The big downside is speed - the home page takes 2.5 seconds to load even after doing all the recommended optimizations (Cloudflare, fewer plugins, fewer styles, etc).

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by harmonycb » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:50 AM UTC

https://www.harmonycb.com/ - it's currently used to build the whole UI for a number of startups where the backend/business logic is behind restful endpoints

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by harmonycb » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:54 AM UTC

harmonycb wrote: post #35

https://www.harmonycb.com/ - it's currently used to build the whole UI for a number of startups where the backend/business logic is behind restful endpoints

it's also not 100% nocode, you can add javascript to do endpoint translation work, and small frontend logic that would be painful in some kind if ITTT system

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by harmonycb » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:55 AM UTC

harmonycb wrote: post #35

https://www.harmonycb.com/ - it's currently used to build the whole UI for a number of startups where the backend/business logic is behind restful endpoints

onboarding and help is still somewhat lacking - but if you hit us up on twitter @harmony__cb or @MattTheMrM we can set up an onboarding call / chat about your use case

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by harmonycb » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 10:00 AM UTC

tjansen wrote: post #29

I think that LowCode makes more sense than NoCode, because sooner or later you will run into a requirement that requires a bit of code, but the LowCode tools I have used can be used without writing any real code. You only need simple expressions ('a.b.c > 1') in JavaScript. An understanding of either SQL or REST/HTTP/JSON can't be avoided though, if you want to access external data. I have some experience using Retoo…

this is what we are attempting with HarmonyCB - retool / UI Bakery but with a figma-level UI designer

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by AshleysBrain » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 10:01 AM UTC

It's for games (not sure if that's what you meant) but our startup makes Construct 3, a NoCode platform for developing games: https://www.construct.net

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by harmonycb » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 10:03 AM UTC

taneq wrote: post #25

All of them, until you want to do something that's not a good match for whatever the platform is designed for. If you need fine grained control over the presentation and behaviour of a system then you have to specify those things in detail exhaustive detail using a suitably expressive platform which we typically refer to as a "programming language".

well, you can also write plugins for most, and/or when you reach that stage where a platform like HCB is just not expressive enough - we have an ejection mechanism that will allow you to just export a react app (but then you lose all the collaborative / builder advantages and it'll be a little more expensive as a one-off) - nobody needed yet so not converted our POC to functioning feature.