【 The Rise of the No-Code Movement 】
As new technology is democratized, it draws in a new wave of founders with them. Over the last ten years at AppWorks, with each democratization, we’ve observed surges of newly minted founders joining the fray, from artificial intelligence to blockchain, Internet of Things, e-commerce, all the way back to mobile applications, and no-code(also known as low-code) will be no different. If you don’t know much about the no-code movement, I’ve summarized the key reasons why this movement is exciting:
🔸 Lower entry barrier means new builders
First and foremost, as the name suggests, the no-code movement allows people without extensive knowledge in programming to be able to build products and services.
And what comes with new builders are new ideas, new takes on existing solutions, and a whole new set of problems that the world has previously ignored.
🔸 Founders can focus more on the business rather than tech
With reduced building time, this accelerates the iteration cycle for founders experimenting business models. So many startups fail before they are able to launch their product.
By strapping together ready to go tools like Airtable, Coda, Wix, Typeform, Zapier, building and launching a MVP over the weekend will now be more common than ever before.
This is no different to great coders who move fast and leverage existing libraries, frameworks, and APIs when building their product, no-code IS the new level of abstraction to programming.
🔸 Competition
This probably excites me the most. As competition encourages existing players and newcomers to create more value, and retires those that are under delivering.
At the end of the day, technology is created to better our lives, and there are a lot of underrepresented niches which are currently served by major players, as an afterthought. I’m truly looking forward to this wave of competition and the products that'll be created to for these adjacent users.
If you are interested in learning more about no-code you can check out https://www.nocode.tech/ for more information.
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By Jack An
Analyst, AppWorks
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