What is No-Code?
No Code allows non-developers to design mobile applications, websites, marketplaces via simple graphical user interfaces. The non-programmer no longer needs to enter lines of code to create a project.
Many examples of startups have started with no code. Comet, is an example. They used Bubble to launch their matchmaking site.
Why No-Code?
This trend is not just about the fact that you don't need to learn code. It's about the fact that it's difficult to build anything. It's about the fact that it's difficult to build anything by coding when you don't have a coding background.
No-code has become a worldwide phenomenon, especially accentuated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Indeed, many no code initiatives and projects have emerged since 2020. Physical businesses have been able to create their mobile site thanks to Webflow or offer a click and collect by building applications with Adalo or Glide. No code is so easy that platforms like softr.io or pory can transform any excel spreadsheet into a functional website.
Moreover, no code allows you to test ideas quickly, in 5 minutes you can create a website and collect your first payments.
Disrupting the developer market
All these users have no idea how code works. They can in a few minutes thanks to the tutorials of the different platforms create a matchmaking app like Uber, a clone of the Tinder app, or even the Airbnb of outdoor sports enthusiasts thanks to Bubble.
With no code, the most ingenious makers reinvent and improve existing solutions. They build faster, test, and remove at a speed that programmers can't follow. Where no code goes even further and becomes even more disruptive is that platforms offer no-code solutions for AI, machine learning, or video game creation. The entire web development industry is affected in one way or another by the no-code trend. Tomorrow, no code will attack connected objects or programmatic.
No-Code: How developers Web are building their extinction (or not)
Developers are building their extinction, but more importantly, they are building their future. For a long time without competition, developers had no competition but their developer friends. Today, they face those who build simple, efficient, and cheaper solutions for companies in no code. Whereas before, these same companies called on web developers to build these solutions. They are building their future because it is developers who create no-code solutions that everyone can use. The more powerful these solutions become, the more developers will be pushed to the top and their value will only increase.
The No-Code Movement
What is the No-Code movement? It's a grassroots initiative for creative people in any medium to drop their excuses and find new possibilities. The roots of the No Code movement lie in the creative and independent movement of the 1960s and 1970s. People of that era felt that big businesses controlled the dissemination of information and encouraged people to waste their time and effort on unimportant and boring tasks.
So they started to find ways to automate these tasks, the excel spreadsheet is the first no-code tool on the market. No code is a symbol of freedom and invention. The movement aims to get developers out of traditional software development routines and into more efficient agile methodologies. These routines also rely heavily on language, platform, and data.
These routines can lead to long development cycles and an excessive focus on data and not enough on content. Whereas with no code, the focus is on the content and not on the computer language.
The future of No-Code
The future of No Code lies in the acceptance by programmers and non-programmers that they are complementary. With No Code, innovation will increase for traditional coders.
And it is together that they will be able to invent the codes of tomorrow. No code developers will always want to improve their product. And coders will be able to develop and code high-value solutions for companies.
The mistake would be to oppose the code to the no-code. The experience is that the MVP is built-in no-code, that a critical threshold is reached. Then the developers step in to create a robust solution that scales to the business. So coders have a secure future with no-code.
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