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Some strange comments in here about Low Code, as if they weren’t already successful. There are easily hundreds of apps successfully making use of Low Code to solve problems for people. Some Marketing Automation tools have had them for 10+ Years. Integration tools are also often Low Code.

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Have any examples? (Genuine question, not an attack!) I've mostly ignored the Low/No Code stuff for a long time.

Microsoft's Power Platform is a low code framework which works well, and generates a massive amount of revenue, as does Salesforce and some others. I recently designed and implemented a complex 500 user child protection application with PP that has been live for a year now. It was highly successful, and the time and cost taken to deliver it was far less than the cost of a hand written solution. That said, there is still quite a lot of custom code required for most enterprise level solutions even with the most mature low code platforms. Low code is not a panacea, and the same issues of how to represent requirements and design arise in the low code world as in the high code world. Low code platforms will continue to mature and improve. Maybe AI will catch them one day, but I'd be surprised if that happens anytime soon.

Microsoft Access and Claris FileMaker have nearly 3 decades of success at low-code.

I genuinely think they get a bad wrap because the really successful apps you never hear about, but the problematic ones need a real programmer to sort out.

Integration - IFTTT, Zapier, Boomi, Jitterbit, Workato, and on and on.

Marketing Automation - Marketo, Klaviyo, Mailchimp as a few examples.

Airtable is another that has low-code automation built in

In 7 months, over 8,000 apps were created with Budibase. Many of these are either data based (admin panels on top of databases), or process based (approval apps).

Budibase is built for internal tools so the apps are behind a log in / portal.

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