Is Low Code The Future? How I built and shipped my revenue-ready MVP in 4 hours
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Re: Is Low Code The Future? How I built and shipped my revenue-ready MVP in 4 hours
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Re: Is Low Code The Future? How I built and shipped my revenue-ready MVP in 4 hours
#3For 4 hour experiments, it sounds like a reasonable strategy; but what happens are your requirements become increasingly complex? Is "Low Code" going to work, for example, if you want to implement A/B tests? Possibly one day.
Re: Is Low Code The Future? How I built and shipped my revenue-ready MVP in 4 hours
#4As with all titles that starts with a question, the answer is probably no.
Sure it may work for some easy cases but most products aren't that simple and as soon as you want to add some extra functionality you basically have to rewrite the application from scratch.
I'm happy that it worked for this guy but if I was a betting man I wouldn't bet on "low code".
Re: Is Low Code The Future? How I built and shipped my revenue-ready MVP in 4 hours
#5yeah, she missed the part where she used her network to market.
Re: Is Low Code The Future? How I built and shipped my revenue-ready MVP in 4 hours
#6As with all titles that starts with a question, the answer is probably no. Sure it may work for some easy cases but most products aren't that simple and as soon as you want to add some extra functionality you basically have to rewrite the application from scratch. I'm happy that it worked for this guy but if I was a betting man I wouldn't bet on "low code".
she is right, but this a terrible example because her idea is weak but her marketing is strong..
the future will likely see apps being built in collaboration with AI.
Re: Is Low Code The Future? How I built and shipped my revenue-ready MVP in 4 hours
#7Great, you made a location-specific clone of an app that has been made hundreds or thousands of times before.
Is this the future? Yes, for people who are pushing out clones of simple, well-understood apps. You can put up a web store in a couple days, or make a first-person shooter, or a dating app.
Re: Is Low Code The Future? How I built and shipped my revenue-ready MVP in 4 hours
#8For prototyping relatively simple, UI-focused apps, yes, I think low-code and no-code solutions do have a place.
The key is having the awareness and discipline, when the prototype is validated and starts to gain traction, to throw it away and build the real production app using what you learned, instead of just accumulating months to years of technical debt and cruft on top of a prototype. If you launch with a "permatype" you will eventually find yourself facing a very expensive and painful "2.0" project.
Re: Is Low Code The Future? How I built and shipped my revenue-ready MVP in 4 hours
#9I feel like this is the self-help hype all over again. People with a network of followers can sell almost any weird stuff. And then afterwards they praise themselves for doing so.
Re: Is Low Code The Future? How I built and shipped my revenue-ready MVP in 4 hours
#10No.
But these are not the products of the future. Another way to look at it, is that anything like this might be a more well understood component of another application or product, and the more they're used the easier they'll be to integrate. The products of 2020's will end up being highly specific to some niche / vertical and require lots of industry knowledge.