No Code Tools
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Jeremy Redman: No-Code Tools Let Founders Sell Functionality Instead of Information
“And with today's no code tools, now you can sell functionality, not information.”
Altman: Building full startups with no-code AI will take a while
“It'll get there for sure. I think the first step will be tools that make people who know how to code well more productive. But eventually I think we can offer really high quality no code tools, and already there's some out there that makes sense, but you can't…”
Cravotta: No-code tools and Upwork enable building apps in under a month
“With no code tools and with Upwork, you can build these apps in less than a month.”
Isenberg: Horizontal no-code tools create opportunities for vertical, product-specific solutions
“There are all these no code tools. They're either too limited or too complex. What you need is a product specific tool. Like Shopify is no code e-commerce. Then you would also build no code marketplaces. No code messaging app. No code Instagram.”
Cole: AI tools will spawn hyper-niche 'Copilots' by solo developers
“Especially with all the new, like, no code tools, AI tools, I think you're going to get a lot of smart, driven individual people just sitting at their laptop being like, I built the Copilot for pet owners of Border Collies.”
Postma: 99% of AI apps can be built with no-code tools
“99% of the apps you can build right now with API wrappers with no code tools.”
Most no-code platforms restrict users from exporting their underlying code
“Most no code tools don't let you extract that code out.”
Reimer: Customers do not care what tools a software product is built with
“I think ultimately the beauty of this is that your customers don't care what tools your product is built in, which has always been true, but continues to be true as you think about, you know, incorporating more platforms that take care of larger parts of your …”
Reimer: No-code tools bridge beginners to SQL and low-level coding concepts
“Using a no-code tool, and it introduces coding concepts. You start to learn about conditionals and filter criteria, just these things that you need to know When you're writing an SQL query, but you can learn it in a more beginner friendly way and kind of gradu…”
Tara Reed: Bubble offers high functionality but has a steep learning curve.
“I would say, like, Bubble probably has the highest functionality capability of the no-code tools out there. There's also the highest learning curve.”
Morning Brew would not exist without low-code or no-code tools
“If low or no code tools did not exist, there would be far fewer businesses that someone like myself could start. I definitely wouldn't have been able to start Morning Brew.”
Calacanis: No-code tools will enable 20% of people to build products
“I think we're going to see the pool of people who can build a product go from like, call it low single digits, four or five percent of the country. Or even the world, young people starting companies, old people starting companies, I think it's going to grow to…”