no-code

“There's definitely lots of room for improvement in the no code space. There's lots of interesting things that people are waiting to be launched. Things like browser extensions and things that kind of push the boundaries of things that can be templated.”

“Some are custom coded apps. Some I have done some coding for, some that I've hired developers for as well. So I'd say the large majority are probably no code related or kind of using existing tools to build something new really.”

“The speed of which you can prototype something Is incredible. You know, you can go from nothing to an app on a hundred people's phones in a couple of hours. I think just that speed of prototyping is a big seller of the no code tools”

“One of the limitations and downsides to no code is it's not no effort, right? And it's also, you still need to be thinking Logically and linearly about what you want this to do, because the app still can't read your mind.”

“I know today you could not build drip with no code. It's just, it was a big complex app. It required custom code basically to do it.”

“I still think the trade-off of, like, I got this up and running in a couple weeks, in a couple hours, is still worth the, like limitations you might eventually run into. I think it's still worth it to, like, get revenue and get going and get customers first.”

“I believe that almost anyone now, especially with no code, but with code, with learning to code, with all the resources online today, that people can change their lives through bootstrapping and not just through software bootstrapping.”

“No code is changing things at a grassroots level. [431] Rob Walling: It's changing things for a lot of people. [432] Rob Walling: AI is going to do that times a hundred.”

“That doesn't mean you shouldn't build something in no code. Platform risk exists in a lot of apps, and it certainly exists in the stair-step approach, and what I don't say is, oh, then don't do it, because there's some risk. It's like, realize you're, what you…”

“Migrating off of no code is really hard, right? Compared to AWS, not that that's a breeze, but if you have code that can run on any server, you can move from Heroku to AWS to GCP to Azure to your own homegrown Dell box sitting in your bedroom connected to a fi…”

“Anything, SaaS, everything can be built with no code, and you should. And I'm just like, no, that's a factually inaccurate statement.”

“About a year ago, I talked to somebody that had a no code app that was in the e-signature space very, it didn't do the whole thing, but it did, you know, it was pretty aligned. I was like, oh, this is interesting. It was focused on some forms and they'd gotten…”

“And I would never want to be running a million dollar SaaS company that was in no code, personally. I'd be so worried about the brittleness and the scalability and, you know, platform risk and just all those things.”

“Every company that I've invested in or otherwise had visibility into that has been no code or has been poorly coded, I will say, I'm just going to assume that AI vibe coding is poorly coded and hard to maintain long term. That may or may not be correct. But wh…”