Re:Why Codeless Software Is Doomed to Fail
by nathan_f77 on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @12:03PM
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Coming at this from a slightly different angle - I'm working on a document generation service [1], and I have an integration with Bubble [2]. I actually have quite a few customers on Bubble who are using my service to fill out PDF documents.
"No-code" is a similar metaphor to "serverless" - of course there's still servers, but you don't have to worry about managing or scaling them. Or more accurately, you pay a premium for someone else to manage and scale them. For "no-code" platforms, someone is still writing and maintaining all of the code. They just give you an API (or a visual UI) to link everything together.
It's actually pretty amazing what you can build with Bubble, and there are a huge number of plugins [3].
"No-code" is a similar metaphor to "serverless" - of course there's still servers, but you don't have to worry about managing or scaling them. Or more accurately, you pay a premium for someone else to manage and scale them. For "no-code" platforms, someone is still writing and maintaining all of the code. They just give you an API (or a visual UI) to link everything together.
It's actually pretty amazing what you can build with Bubble, and there are a huge number of plugins [3].
[1] https://formapi.io
[2] https://bubble.is
[3] https://bubble.is/plugins