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by avenueb 2583 days ago
As someone who works in a no-code platform company, my view confirmed by a look at our revenues is the author is way off. low-code no-code platforms are booming and will continue to for a long time. There are several reasons 1 - there is a huge backlog of business processes which can be made more efficient with apps 2 - there is deficiency in developers, but a surplus of knowledge workers 3 - IT departments are unable to solve all users app needs 4 - enterprises are mananaging far too many SaaS 'point solutions' 5- most importantly, ROI and TCO make low-code platforms very attractive. 6 - the ability to quickly customize business process applications is incredibly important. Low-code platforms provide this 7 - technologies like webhooks are making it easier for low-code app builders to create sophisticated apps tied to multiple cloud and on prem data sources and systems.
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I am amazed, everything you said is completely true and yet you are totally wrong. Sure your company is doing really well right now. You might even cash out or leave before it goes downhill but it will go downhill.

Low-Code, No-Code is too immature to build a long term sustainable business. It will ebb and flow for decades to come. Always getting closer to solving this list of problems (and the problems are real) until one day we as a society learn to understand where the value boundaries are for digital products. I don't see that happening in the next 50 years.