Co-founder of Reflect here: Thanks for the mention!

I think a lot of people think of "no-code" tools as something exclusively for non-developers; things like Webflow and Bubble for creating apps. I don't think that's ever really been the case, Zapier being a great example of that, but there's been a lot more tools coming to market in the past couple years that actually work well as a way to replace tedious code-based workflows. i.e. Use Retool instead of building UIs for internal apps, use Reflect to build automated tests instead of Selenium, etc.

Yeah I'm a dev but was a team of one embedded within a sales and marketing org at a a medium-large size startup with a mandate to automate and find growth hacks for sales + marketing, and I was able to use Zapier with its Salesforce integration, google sheets integration, Twilio integration, Marketo integration to do a lot of work that I wouldn't have had time to build, support, and do maintenance on if I'd built a full backend application.

All of what I did with Zapier could have been implemented with a database, a bunch of scripting, and cronjobs, but using Zapier saved oodles of time and meant I was outsourcing the maintenance to their API integrators rather than to myself.

I was able to do so much with triggers and webhooks I can only imagine what is possible now with their more recent code blocks feature and adding better environment variables.

sounds interesting! we’ve seen the same pattern across dozens of customers and are building a business on top of it. would love to chat if you’re down: juan [at] sayprimer.com

Reflect is a cool name, but nearly impossible to Google.

I used these search terms "reflect no code" and the first hit was https://reflect.run :)

https://www.google.com/search?q=reflect+no+code

4) should probably also include WYSIWYG website builder platforms like:

WordPress, Squarespace and Wix... As their userbases dwarf all other systems mentioned

I would add to this list no-code web automation and scrapers. I am founder of https://automatio.co, but there other great tools like SimpleScraper, Axiom.ai, Browsers.ai etc

I'd add Betty Blocks to the app builder section; and add a category for electronics laboratory automation and add 'Labview' for that category, there are many others as well.

This is a very useful thread ;)

Not sure where it would fit in, but Looker adoption is crazy. It's deeper though: no-code data modeling

I write a fair percentage of LookML as a ratio of my total Looker data dashboard creation time. (It's maybe low-code or "somewhat easy code", but it seems pretty far from no-code to me. I'm still a fan.)

For me, being able to do that is kinda the key requirement of such a platform. Make the easy things easy and give me an escape hatch.

Not a huge fan of integromat but I think zapier is probably fine.

Python based anvil, most versatile

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9) Online DB tools -> Quickbase, Airtable, Knack, etc 10) Website builder -> webflow, softr, etc

Is there a competitive landscape of all the different tools?

Surprised I haven't come across one yet...

Is there any github list with this ?

Love retool I used it daily :)

Me too. The context in the PP is pretty handy to me. I am just getting into nocode for my organization.

if you have some questions hit me up! :)

Retool is amazing!

I'm looking out for no-code low-code tool for side project that can help me with speed. How did you land at Retool or what should be the general criteria?