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by tluyben2 1626 days ago
Not sure if you meant this, but I think a lot of no/low code products can fill most propositions however the costs are prohibitive. Currently Bubble, Adalo, Airtable etc would bankrupt me fast if I ran off them (I mean; they are free or cheap to get going but when you gain traction, the price flies up). I cannot build scale or momentum with their pricing. There is also the problem that it is not open tech, but that is more a personal thing, not a financial or tech problem.

If they were open source, I probably would build 90% of whatever I am doing in them, but now it is more like 1% and indeed for demos only and that is 100% price, for me. The open source solutions are not good enough. I understand that; only techies care about open source and they can program. This is another market.

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I recently got a quote from a big no-code company, for the yearly price they asked for a few thousand users I could hire two competent full time developers.
Yep, and we more likely have 100ks or millions of users for everything, so that is an immediate killer.