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Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writing code
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#22As someone working in this space (codesolvent.com)...color me unimpressed so far.
Of course with AWS resources this can change with time. They did hype this some months back, I was expecting something a bit more impressive OOTB.
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#23I'm very eager to see the Office 365 answer to this. Microsoft is the one that needs to come up with a defensive play here, because this is an area where Excel is used in many businesses both small and large. I'm guessing Microsoft could do a better job than AWS integrating this with Excel and the Office 365 or MS Teams kind of UI to make it feel at home to their users. On the other hand, AWS is ahead now and likely…
Power Apps is Microsoft's version of this. It is actually quite popular.
Re: Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writing code
#24I'm very eager to see the Office 365 answer to this. Microsoft is the one that needs to come up with a defensive play here, because this is an area where Excel is used in many businesses both small and large. I'm guessing Microsoft could do a better job than AWS integrating this with Excel and the Office 365 or MS Teams kind of UI to make it feel at home to their users. On the other hand, AWS is ahead now and likely…
Microsoft can do a much better job than Amazon if they created a competing product. They might take the quicker route and buy AirTable maybe?
I can foresee Microsoft and other bigger players entering the no code market seriously in the near future (though one can say Microsoft already has power apps etc).
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#25I'm very eager to see the Office 365 answer to this. Microsoft is the one that needs to come up with a defensive play here, because this is an area where Excel is used in many businesses both small and large. I'm guessing Microsoft could do a better job than AWS integrating this with Excel and the Office 365 or MS Teams kind of UI to make it feel at home to their users. On the other hand, AWS is ahead now and likely…
It's called Power Apps https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/
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#26Ok honestly, my first thought was "here we go again", BUT when you look at the @jeffbar provided, you can see, that yes, it is "visual" programming. It does however require a certain logical fluency. So I was wrong: It is _not_ the sales/ceo dream of no longer having pesky engineers. It's a proper gateway drug into programming.
So, it's more than retool?
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#27As an aside: I've been reading the AWS blog posts from Jeff Barr, but ignoring the Amazon Polly audio conversions. I actually listened to it today, and not only is it not terrible, but there's a moment (around 1:05 in or so) where you can actually hear an inhalation! I know @jeffbarr is sometimes in these threads: is that a standard feature of AWS Polly, or is there some preprocessing that is generating SSML to control cadence, and if so how do we get our hands on THAT?
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#28It's responsive layout Hypercard. We've come full circle. Maybe more like Filemaker Pro, circa 1990.
I think you are right. You show some of my coworkers GUI built with Qt and they will eww all over it.
edit: But this.. it is polished.
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#29Is this really no code? Those formulas they are using look quite a bit like code to me and GUI builders and templates are also nothing new.
Re: Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writing code
#30As an aside: I've been reading the AWS blog posts from Jeff Barr, but ignoring the Amazon Polly audio conversions. I actually listened to it today, and not only is it not terrible, but there's a moment (around 1:05 in or so) where you can actually hear an inhalation! I know @jeffbarr is sometimes in these threads: is that a standard feature of AWS Polly, or is there some preprocessing that is generating SSML to contr…
Breathing is a feature that you can turn on in Amazon Polly since 2018. There are automated, manual, and mixed modes depending on how much you want to manually control the breaths. More info here: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/amazon-po...