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Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writing code
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#32I'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).
Didn't Microsoft just release their Airtable competitor? Lists? Did everyone already forget about that? Seems pretty comparable to this Amazon offering other then the mobile UI WYSIWYG builder.
They don't push it as an "app builder" though, more of a web based access that is heavily tied to office/teams.
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#33This looks very Tableau-esque. Another tool that takes a similar amount of work to learn compared to just learning programming in the first place, but with more vendor lock-in.
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#34I am working on a product in this space.
I think pretty much all the 'no code' apps that are coming out have taken the wrong approach to it. No matter what, they are still 'designed' by programmers with a programming mentality. This will lead to a sort of failure as people will feel limited when using it, and a 'non programmer' mentality looks at this and goes wtf?
For example:
> =Filter(Tasks,"Tasks[Done]% ORDER BY Tasks[Due]","Yes")
I can understand this, 80% of folks here also, but do your mother or father? Or the small business owner down the street? Why is the word `Tasks` in 3 places? What is the "Yes", and so on and on
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#35Looks like a competitor to Retool, interesting. The focus on data permissions, mobile support, and push notifications is really interesting because none of those features are ones that Retool focuses on, I believe - those features being front and center makes me think Amazon has looked at the competition and wants to focus on what they offer that others don't, rather than just trying to be yet-another-tool in the spa…
My first glance reads it to be more like airtable or even salesforce at some level, which to your point are the modern iterations of access / filemaker. Drag and drop all-in-one database and application designer that by virtue of being online and multi-user make them way more useful.
Yes my first thought was that this was like Airtable. One of these days one of these no-code solutions is going to actually stick, and I will stop getting paid to basically glue data from different systems together while browsing HN.
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#36I am working on a product in this space. I think pretty much all the 'no code' apps that are coming out have taken the wrong approach to it. No matter what, they are still 'designed' by programmers with a programming mentality. This will lead to a sort of failure as people will feel limited when using it, and a 'non programmer' mentality looks at this and goes wtf? For example: > =Filter(Tasks,"Tasks[Done] % ORDER BY…
I like what you're saying. Would just add that if my mother and father are the audience, I fear your solution would be unfairly docked a couple stars just for existing online and in software form. They would much prefer that any app exist as the result of a 10-minute phone call. ;-)
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#37A lot of these things can be done with SharePoint. Same thing, no code.
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#38This is like a movie you know 2 minutes in, is going to be a complete disaster, give it another 5 minutes and finally turn it off. You stumble upon it's imbd page some time later to discover it has a 3/10 rating and nobody went to see it. I don't see a single innovative idea in this product and I see plenty that's worse than the experience I had in Dreamweaver in year 2000.
It doesn't have to be innovative, it needs to be useful. Having this inside the aws ecosystem, is going to be very useful for a lot of people.
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#39I am working on a product in this space. I think pretty much all the 'no code' apps that are coming out have taken the wrong approach to it. No matter what, they are still 'designed' by programmers with a programming mentality. This will lead to a sort of failure as people will feel limited when using it, and a 'non programmer' mentality looks at this and goes wtf? For example: > =Filter(Tasks,"Tasks[Done] % ORDER BY…
Yeah, man, this looks like a beefed-up version of Excel macros
Anyone who can write working spreadsheet macros could probably just learn to actually program. Maybe they aren't going to be making the next RTX Voice or proving P=NP, but I'll bet they could crank out some CRUD
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#40It looks like an Airtable replica to me. I might be wrong. But anyways, AWS getting into no-code (less-code) space is definitely going to impact a lot of small time players. AWS can complete the loop of development to Custom Deployment and It also has bunch of other things in its offerings that anyone would be happy to jump in. I'm just worried about how small-time No-Code players would survive going forward!
I'm exploring no-code solutions for some small business tasks. In my experience, if I can find a non-enterprise company to fill my needs, I will be way better off. My past experience with Amazon tools is that they happily stand in the enterprise solutions space, with an unfortunate amount of the baggage that brings along.