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by Hermitian909 1287 days ago
I think the end goal of most low-code/no-code tools to be something where you can get an 80% solution without hiring a real engineer. The second part of that sentence is really important.

Should large businesses going to build their most critical functions into a low-code solution? No, not at all. But one slightly technical person in e.g. the marketing department can unlock a lot of business value but automating a few workflows.
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chasd00 1287 days ago
Salesforce does this pretty well. Allowing users to put something together to automate a business process quickly.

Their concept of custom tabs, custom objects, fields, page layouts and the way different layouts are assigned to groups of users by profile make it easy to stand up a lot of record keeping and management that's needed in a lot of plain boring business.

Granted, Salesforce is so immensely wide and deep that many of those advantages get lost in the complexity of the platform itself.

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matus_congrady 1287 days ago
This is exactly something I don't necessarily agree with.

I think that this "slightly technical person" won't be able to create that application/workflow with a sufficiently high-enough quality.

Is he going to think about all of the edge-cases? Does he know how to properly validate user inputs?

Also, quoting from the article: "Interestingly, while low-code/no-code are seen as the tool of citizen developers, its primary users are IT professionals, the Capterra survey also shows."

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