The world is changed and changed quickly. To be on top your business needs to adapt to new challenges fast, and you need to find the way for this. Now everybody understands that any business needs support from IT. With the traditional software development process, you had to perform steps that will make your idea to life. But sometimes it could be so boring and exhausting.
Sometimes IT solutions are like something creepy with endless looking for developers, long-term negotiating, paying for hundreds of working hours, brainstorming new ideas, delaying, and as a result, losing to faster competitors.
But can we optimize some of these processes? Sure, new opportunities are appearing every day. Let see what steps in making an IT solution you can optimize. Here are the usual steps:
- Idea.
- Testing idea in sketches or MVP on focus groups.
- Find issues and probably new ideas.
- Quick launch of a new realized idea on the market.
- Maintenance of the solution.
Today is a great opportunity to simplify each of these steps. It’ time to welcome no-code. It’s simple because you don’t need to know how to code. It’s fast because you can open tutorials on YouTube and create the needed solution in a couple of evenings. Finally, it’s a wonderful way to boost your business in 2022. How? Let’s figure it out.
How can no-code help your small or medium business?
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Get fast idea sketches or MVP with ready-made templates.
A huge number of solutions have been developed before us … and for us. We can take any layout we like, for example, a website, transform it and launch. Moreover, some no-code constructors allow us to create not just websites, but full-fledged web or mobile apps. Make sure we’re telling the truth: site in 20 minutes. And if MVP fails, then you can always return to the first point and come up with a new idea.
Want to cut some business costs to free up some money?Drop in your development and maintenance costs.
No-code supposes the pay-as-you-go model, so investment costs decrease. Because if you master some no-code services or train your employee, you will save on salary for a full-time programmer and workplace equipment. With no-code, you don’t need to host your solution, buy a server and provide support for it. It is much easier to rent a server and pay money to a provider. A good example is Tilda. You just work on the website, and Tilda’s company copes with all possible problems.
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When working with a no-code platform, you do not need to manage the team of developers or hire a PM. To change something in the product, in traditional development, you need at least 12 hours — contact PM, describe the problem, design a layout, make endpoints on the front and back, and so on. Elements on no-code platforms are drag-and-drop, the app is always updated to the latest version, so new features can be rolled out at least every day.
You should note that there are limitations of all no-code solutions, and these limitations came from the platform it is based on. Well, the fantasy will not boom, but you can do something suitable quickly and easily. At the same time, ownership of the source code is no longer absolute — we depend on the platform and its stability. If something happens to it, it could be challenging for the business. But on the other hand, we will already have a clear understanding of how everything should work. And you just need to create a similar solution on a different platform, which has recently become quite a lot.
6 issues to consider before going no-code
- Understand no-code platforms and their goals.
Bubble is cool for developing web applications. Tilda is ideal for landing pages, Webflow — for portals with CMS and a lot of pages.
- Think about scaling in advance.
No-code is not so suitable for large-scale projects. As the number of users increases, you have to pay higher tariffs.
- Consider your rights for the product.
You will never own 100% of your product, and if you want to “disconnect” from the no-code service, you will have to develop everything from scratch.
- Check the possibility of the service to download the code.
If something happens to Tilda or Bubble, or they decide to ban you, it could completely kill your business.
- Accept that 100% uniqueness is impossible.
Thousands of no-code developers offer solutions. So, some sites will inevitably look like yours. It will not be possible to create something completely unique with no-code.
- Don’t think that no-code is super cheap.
For example, at Mendix, the cost of a license for one application starts at $ 1875 per month, subject to a three-year subscription, the license is limited to 50 internal users. The price of a locally deployable corporate license starts at $ 7,825, which is almost $ 100,000 per year.
Summary
Chris Vanstratt, CEO of GitHub, said: “The future of programming is no coding at all,” and no-code makes it sure. As we discovered from the article, no-code is a superb way to support small and medium businesses. However, some tasks still needed coding. Some are successfully solved with no-code. The main thing is not to confuse. P. S. If you need good custom development, please contact us.
