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

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by saaaaaam » Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 10:04 PM UTC

smoldesu wrote: post #130

saaaaaam wrote: post #120

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Stacker is about $3000 a year; Integromat is about $1500; Airtable is $240 per user per year and I think I’ve got six users (but you’d only need one to do what I’m doing); Twilio is pennies - maybe $100 a year; Carrd is insanely cheap - $49 a year I think; Typeform is around $600 a year So I guess I’m laying out somewhere in the region of $5250 a year or $450 a month. That’s split across several projects. The beauty…

Phew, I'd be deathly afraid of relying on that much proprietary software. Good luck all the same!

Not really sure what you mean here. All the business applications I use are proprietary. That’s the same for most businesses: you buy tools to get the job done!

The advantage of these ones is that I can very quickly customise them to do exactly what I need.

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by devhammer » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:10 PM UTC

marviio wrote: post #125

soco wrote: post #14

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I tried a bit OutSystems and its learning curve is incredibly steep for what they claim to be. It all starts with a specialized Eclipse based environment to install and to learn and only goes downhill from there. I don't know any business user able to use it, and for a regular programmer it's just another language/environment to learn. Not sure why it's a thing.

At least before you had to run Windows to build OutSystems apps.

Hey...I'm a developer advocate at OutSystems, and just wanted to note that since earlier this year, our development tool, Service Studio, is available for both Mac and Windows.

Also happy to answer any questions anyone might have.

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by hevisko » Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 11:08 AM UTC

Mendix ?? They are expensive onsite, but I've seen projects build in shorter time than what normal devs expect - that way saving money for clients

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by kinderjaje » Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 11:31 AM UTC

jinen83 wrote: post #44

NoCode platforms can be further divided into sub category of tools. Depending on your need you got to look at using one or multiple tools. 1) BPM tools: build workflows & business processes. Tools like Appian, Pega, kissflow, etc 2) Form builders: jotform, typeform, etc 3) automation: Zapier, integromat, etc 4) Frontend builder - Consumer apps -> bubble, adalo, etc - Internal apps -> Retool, DronaHQ, Appsmith 5) App…

I would add to this list no-code web automation and scrapers. I am founder of https://automatio.co, but there other great tools like SimpleScraper, Axiom.ai, Browsers.ai etc

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by 46_palladium » Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 5:30 PM UTC

lysecret wrote: post #50

jinen83 wrote: post #44

NoCode platforms can be further divided into sub category of tools. Depending on your need you got to look at using one or multiple tools. 1) BPM tools: build workflows & business processes. Tools like Appian, Pega, kissflow, etc 2) Form builders: jotform, typeform, etc 3) automation: Zapier, integromat, etc 4) Frontend builder - Consumer apps -> bubble, adalo, etc - Internal apps -> Retool, DronaHQ, Appsmith 5) App…

Love retool I used it daily :)

Retool is amazing!

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by 1290cc » Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 9:21 PM UTC

Trifacta is pretty cool way to do data engineering. Very efficient approach to assessing what is going on in a massive amount of data and then get suggestions on ways to transform it. Once you're done export to python code or just run from their app as a pipeline that is pushed down into spark or within a data warehouse.

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by joaofiliperocha » Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 1:57 PM UTC

jinen83 wrote: post #44

NoCode platforms can be further divided into sub category of tools. Depending on your need you got to look at using one or multiple tools. 1) BPM tools: build workflows & business processes. Tools like Appian, Pega, kissflow, etc 2) Form builders: jotform, typeform, etc 3) automation: Zapier, integromat, etc 4) Frontend builder - Consumer apps -> bubble, adalo, etc - Internal apps -> Retool, DronaHQ, Appsmith 5) App…

Is there any github list with this ?

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Post by smellgood71 » Mon, Nov 08, 2021, 10:27 AM UTC

46_palladium wrote: post #135

lysecret wrote: post #50

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Love retool I used it daily :)

Retool is amazing!

I'm looking out for no-code low-code tool for side project that can help me with speed. How did you land at Retool or what should be the general criteria?