With the advent of tools that make building an e-commerce site or basic portfolio website simpler than ever, many developers are starting to wonder...
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I've worked as a designer for clients with minimal coding. Everyone was content with WP, so using Elementor and getting the design clients wanted was pretty simple for me. There are times when one is needed over another, but half of the time, my clients were too busy to deal with any platform and left everything up to me. So nah, they'll still need a dev/designer doing stuff for them unless they have a lot of time on their hands.
As a baker (and developer), I thought using Wordpress would make more sense, but I realize that my bosses won't want to learn how to use it, even if I give them a tutorial on how to make their changes. Even with SiteOrigin, I found it complicated, and limited. Always have to heat the credit card to have advanced features. And whenever you want to customize something, you need a developer who puts their hands under the hood!
I fell back on CodeIgniter / TailwindCSS, where I have more control over the code I write, and with the bare essentials (CRUD backend).
I as developer, I use a mix of both. No code on simple tools and full coded software when it's needed.
This is the way we should work.
When we dont need full control and time is limited, no-code i.e low-code solutions can be good alternatives
I appreciate the emphasis on SEO in this article. A good web design agency in Phoenix should definitely incorporate SEO strategies in their services.
My (yes, poignant) point of view is that these ideas aren't new. Tools where you visually string together someone else's units of code? These have been around for decades. We used to call them RAD tools. Now they have web backends in the cloud. Nothing much else is new.
Why did they suddenly become popular?
My (again, yes, poignant) point of view is that everything has already been done and nobody does anything original anymore. Developers were building roughly the same things over and over for different clients. Of course, taking these features and making them modular makes sense for those types of applications.
Nobody wants to invest big in unoriginal assembly line software products, and this way, they can spend the money on marketing and market manipulation instead.
Let me give a real world example to illustrate what I'm talking about.
Consider a product like Netflix - what they do is incredibly difficult and expensive. Huge deals with producers and studios, big productions involving thousands of workers, massive bandwidth requirements, difficult technical challenges in terms of streaming and scaling.
Now take something like Tinder - users upload a few photos and some text, they show the photos to other users and provide a chat when you match. Basically users are doing all the work.
Now compare these products at $10/mo for Netflix and $20/mo for Tinder.
The difference is marketing. Probably $18 of $20/mo for Tinder you're actually paying for advertising and market instruments. Likely 80% of the development work they do is artificial restrictions, upsell prompts and marketing platform integrations.
In this sort of economy, it's no longer about building products - "you are the product", so it's really just about churning out more of the same, in new wrapping, and spending enough on marketing and manipulation. Conditions were never better for shallow, unoriginal, cheap, useless products.
Of course these tools are going to flourish in this kind of market.
This actually makes me wonder if most web developers who fear being replaced by simple GUIs are even aware of the deep end of programming. Surely people must know that there's many developers out there who actually have a much more complex job than what could be easily automated, or so one should think, but the constant barrage of articles asking whether developers™ will be replaced does make it seem like many, in fact, think all programming is trivial and can be automated.
Whether or not this is actually a threat isn't even a question I'd normally consider if it weren't for half the observable internet apparently worrying about it.
if you're not a designer or even a developer using no code is still hard for you so, no code in my opinion is created so that designer or developer can cut their time of the development without starting from scratch
I always find ridiculous that no code builders are created to build a product with no need to hire a developer and now freelance platforms are full of people looking for no code developers 😑.
What an article, thank you!
You know what, I'm afraid of AI, soon it might take over, everything 😁
They should go ahead with No Code Builders, developers has a lot to solve