This questions keeps coming up, and without knowing the specifics of the tools being discussed, the answer will always be "it depends".
I recently started using a no-code tool called Glide[0], because it emphasized that the starting point could be as simple as a Google Sheet. That data is pulled into the app's visual builder interface, so you can start playing around with filters and conditional logic to show/hide information.
Then you can set up user logins, Stripe integration and basic CRUD functionality with read/writes happening on the Gsheet. You can string together actions with Zapier and create calculated columns like you would on an Excel pivot table.
Ultimately, I can see myself creating a small community app using this tool, but not something that has hundreds of thousands of users, as then we get into tricky issues of vendor lock-in.
So IMO, the use case for something like this is for rapid prototyping and and an MVP. You wouldn't want your entire business hosted on someone else's platform, so as you get user feedback on the MVP, you should be talking to a dev about how to move off-platform: hosting, deployment, using a proper DB, security reviews ---- all the ugly stuff the no-code tool abstracted away.
I recently started using a no-code tool called Glide[0], because it emphasized that the starting point could be as simple as a Google Sheet. That data is pulled into the app's visual builder interface, so you can start playing around with filters and conditional logic to show/hide information.
Then you can set up user logins, Stripe integration and basic CRUD functionality with read/writes happening on the Gsheet. You can string together actions with Zapier and create calculated columns like you would on an Excel pivot table.
Ultimately, I can see myself creating a small community app using this tool, but not something that has hundreds of thousands of users, as then we get into tricky issues of vendor lock-in.
So IMO, the use case for something like this is for rapid prototyping and and an MVP. You wouldn't want your entire business hosted on someone else's platform, so as you get user feedback on the MVP, you should be talking to a dev about how to move off-platform: hosting, deployment, using a proper DB, security reviews ---- all the ugly stuff the no-code tool abstracted away.
[0] https://www.glideapps.com/