Everyone is hyped about no-code but low key the real revolution is happening with low-code ⚡️
What is low-code and what are the top tools leading the movement, you ask?
Here's the full scoop in 20 tweets: 🧵
What it is:
While no-code platforms target business users & non-technical founders, low-code platforms are aimed mainly at developers. These tools require technical knowledge but help speed up the product development cycles & improve developer productivity.
How big can it be?
A report by Gartner forecasts that by 2024, low-code adoption will be so widespread that 75% of the software solutions built around the world will be made with the help of such tools.
3 key benefits of low-code:
● Developers can simply use drag-and-drop functions, cutting tedious labor & time costs
● Devs don't have to trade-off customizability because they can still inject code whereever needed
● It takes less resources to build, deploy, maintain apps
Wait what kind of apps/tools can you build with low-code?
The list is huge but here are some top ones: building internal tools, centralize data across sales, HR, marketing functions etc, connect your teams, and streamline ops etc
What are some top tools and platforms in the low-code domain?
Here are 15 low-code tools that you should be using in 2022 ⬇️
[including some hidden gems 💎]
Tool: Rows
2-line pitch: The spreadsheet with superpowers. Slick design. Built-in integrations. Revolutionary sharing. Rows reinvented spreadsheets so teams do more, crazy fast.
Learn more:
@RowsHQ
Tool: Xano
2-line pitch: Xano gives you a scalable server, a flexible database, and a No-Code API builder that can transform, filter, and integrate with data from anywhere.
Learn more:
@nocodebackend
Tool: Retool
2-line pitch: Build internal tools, remarkably fast. Stop wrestling with UI libraries, hacking together data sources, and figuring out access controls. Start shipping apps that move your business forward.
Learn more:
@retool
Tool: Draftbit
2-line pitch: Draftbit is the pro-code native app builder, offering the most powerful and flexible way to visually create, customize, and launch native mobile apps. Source code included, of course.
Learn more:
@draftbit
Tool: Stacker
2-line pitch: Build custom software that empowers your partners, teammates and customers. Transform your team's workflow with customer portals, project management tools or internal apps – in just 2 minutes.
Learn more:
@StackerHQ
Tool: Bildr
2-line pitch: The Future of Development is Visual. Build beautiful, complete SaaS products.No design constraints. Limitless functionality.
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@bildrHQ
Tool: The (dot) Com
2-line pitch: Web power to the web people. Build, develop, engineer, and automate your websites, together.
Learn more:
@the__com
Tool: Internal
2-line pitch: Build internal tools incredibly fast on top of your databases, APIs, spreadsheets, and business apps. Developers can do as little or as much as they feel like.
Learn more:
@internal_hq
Tool: Drona
2-line pitch: Build stunning internal tools, blazing fast. Empower everyone to build beautiful looking, mobile responsive internal tools and apps on top of Databases or APIs without writing code.
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@DronaHQ
Tool: WeWeb
2-line pitch: Build stunning internal tools, blazing fast. Empower everyone to build beautiful looking, mobile responsive internal tools and apps on top of Databases or APIs without writing code.
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@weweb_io
Tool: n8n
2-line pitch: Automate without limits. The workflow automation platform that doesn't box you in, that you never outgrow
Learn more:
@n8n_io
Tool: Quickbase
2-line pitch: Solve your information troubles by gaining 360-degrees visibility into your projects, connecting your mission critical systems, and meeting all compliance requirements.
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@Quickbase
Tool: Smartsheet
2-line pitch: Welcome to modern work management. Manage projects, automate processes, and scale up to enterprise-level programs and portfolios, all with one platform.
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@smartsheet
Tool: Canonic
2-line pitch: Supercharge the back to your frontend. Create, manage & deploy powerful serverless backends in a matter of minutes with an intuitive low-code interface.
Learn more:
@CanonicHQ
Tool: Airplane
2-line pitch: Code to internal apps, in minutes. Turn APIs, SQL queries, and scripts into apps for the entire team.
Learn more:
@AirplaneDev
While low-code tools will never likely replace traditional development, they help speed up the development cycles, bring operational excellence within companies and eliminate barriers to build, deploy and maintains software in a much faster way. And I believe THAT'S underrated!