Is No Code Real?

Payam Moin Afshari
2 min readOct 24, 2021
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It’s cool to see how many tools out there claim to help you making different kind of applications without coding. Here is a list:

UX Planet has a nice list of No Code tools here:

While these tools seem very promising (I tried Bubble.io), I’m not sure in reality a business can survive with these tools without having a developer at least as a consultant.

Many years ago in my company we were offering MS Dynamics CRM development services. If you ever look at MS Dynamics CRM advertisements or intro videos you might think you can do anything with just a little customization! But the truth is that you cannot do almost anything without at least having a MS CRM expert beside you (and that was our business).

I believe in most of the no-code tools, many things can be done with just customization; but first, the customization itself requires a full understanding of the platform and general knowledge of software development and second, as soon as you have any additional customized requirement then you should literally write code!

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Payam Moin Afshari

Old Geek, a.k.a. Product Manager / Project Manager / IT Manager