Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech development?

Re:Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech develo... by smt88 on Thursday August 11, 2022 @10:22AM (#32426070)

Yes, absolutely. I know firsthand.

Instead of hiring developers to do a 2-month project to build us a suite of admin tools, I built them myself in Retool over the course of a couple of days.

For a non-developer, maybe we're still far away from disruption. Excel seems to be the programming platform of choice for most people anyway.

But for developers, these things turn you into RoboCop. It's amazing how much I can get done now that I don't have to worry about UI, build pipelines, etc.

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Re:Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech develo... by char_star_star on Thursday August 11, 2022 @10:42AM (#32426458)

Thank you for expressing exactly what I’ve felt. In my experience something like Retool lets you spin up an incredible amount of functionality very quickly, and it also does a great job of helping you find the boundary where you should do something elsewhere.

Honestly the hardest part of my work with Retool has been convincing other devs that they should use it for internal use cases. While they’re still waiting on designs to be done in Figma I’ve got multiple users trying out a solution in Retool that I can update in near real-time to see what works best.

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Re:Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech develo... by yawnxyz on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:47PM (#32432783)

I've used Retool as UI and Airtable as DB for so many tiny custom apps, it's great. Retool ends up being used to create "constraints" on top of Airtable in a way that enforces how people add / view records.

It's such a great combo.

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