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by dscpls 2350 days ago
This says it's very either or, and I think misses the point of a lot of nocode tools.

One of the best measures of tools is their composability. Can you use this for what it's good at, and integrate that solution with another tool that's much harder to use but can solve the last 5-10% that's just too hacky or not supported directly by this tool?

For my that's where zoho creator falls down a bit. Their APIs are just web form post handlers. But it works!

We're doing a lot of stuff on webflow by dropping some custom javascript in there to hook it up to an API or do some very data-driven stuff beyond their interactions.

The point is, nocode isn't just for proofs of concepts, although it's great for that.

When evaluating nocode tools, look for integration/extension points, and think about your migration path should you need to replace it. Hopefully you're succefful enough to need that but don't build 100% of your app by hand because 10% actually needs hand-written code.