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by godot 2183 days ago
I think one of my favorite HN comment from this past year [1] addresses this a bit:

> Software has really interesting economics where as the cost/feature decreases by a factor, say 1x, then the set of features that can be profitably worked on expands by like 10x, so paradoxically, as cost/feature decreases, it makes sense to hire more engineers and expand R&D budgets.

"No code" is part of this, IMO. If a "no code" tool made certain things easier (e.g. building a landing site with some functionality), then the business starts to see the next set of features that can/should now be built because that previous problem was solved, that can't be done with a "no code" solution and needs some R&D effort to build out. The cycle continues as "no code" tools get more advanced to cover those use cases, and then more new business use cases will come out as a result of having those new tools in place.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23298080