Re:Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?
by istorical on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:40PM
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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.
Re:Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?
by juanplusjuan on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @01:01AM
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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.
Re:Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?
by pajop on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @05:25AM
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I used these search terms "reflect no code" and the first hit was https://reflect.run :)
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.