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by chessboxer 1686 days ago
Hey HN, I'm a bit of a tourist here, but I wanted to add my 2 cents from the perspective of a technical person from a non-traditional background.

I started using Plasmic in August 2020, mostly because of my frustration with existing "no-code" tools.

I'm a designer, and I wanted something professional that allowed me to use my existing skills to develop my own applications. In real code. I wanted to participate with engineers in the development process and be able to translate my ideas into something that could turn into something if it took off.

Plasmic got a newb like me up and running on a Sunday afternoon.

They have one of the best onboarding "games" called Plasmic levels which teaches you how to visually create fully functional, albeit "presentational" react components-- So anyone with a basic design background can create react, or Nextjs app that can be deployed anywhere.

I cant really cram as much as I want into this humble review, but I highly recommend you investigate your skepticism and check it out. It will shave months off your development time and give your team an intuitive way to collaborate and ship waaaay faster.

I started a project that is the high quality alternative to Upwork. It's an advanced ecommerce application with embedded financial services. If I hadn't discovered plasmic I'm not sure I would have been able to make this on my own.