"If this trend holds, and it seems like it does, pretty soon even a regular high school kid should be able to build the next Netflix using nothing more than an easy "click and drag" interface.
This is the promise low-code platforms are built on."
I work for a low-code software platform company and at least as far as we're concerned, I cannot scream "NOT EVEN CLOSE" loudly enough.
We're for building _business applications at scale_. Not Netflix, or the next great TODO app startup for teams, or any of that. Not the same ballpark, not even the same sport.
We're for building your companys HR app. Or an app to help Legal. Or an app to help field CSRs do front-line support. Line-of-business apps.
Maybe some of them are promising this "drag and drop your way to netflix" thing. I know we aren't, nor are any of our competitors in the low-code space.
Netflix's interface isn't complicated. Surely some codeless platform is capable of something similar.
The technically hard part is the infrastructure to unicast millions of videos at a time, but that's now available from several cloud providers.
The really hard part isn't technical, it's content. Disney might be able to build the next Netflix with a codeless interface to videos on the cloud, but a high school student wouldn't.
Well, that depends on how much you can charge for your service. You can be super inefficient if your product is unique and has a big enough market, and that's precisely what these models are good for.
Once you've proven the idea, perhaps it's time to hire a team to optimize, but until then, you can focus on the rest of the business.
If someone could compete with Netflix and make it buildable through a click and drag interface, then they'd probably be directly competing with Netflix and not making less money basing their business on "codeless". :)
And yet... I've met sooo many non-technical startup founders who tried (and failed) to write their app in Wix (or similar). I don't know which one of them you're working for, but your industry as a whole is totally selling this dream.
So called 'Business apps', is an umbrella term for relatively basic apps that usually used for standard business functions. For instance, today I got a sign off for a so called app that will be used to store QA info on sales calls. The QA person will listen to a call, enter info on the system,which them allows to summarize info in reports and dasbords,print QA sheet,etc.Everything stored in one place.It took me just a few days to do it all and it is easy to customise.
"If this trend holds, and it seems like it does, pretty soon even a regular high school kid should be able to build the next Netflix using nothing more than an easy "click and drag" interface. This is the promise low-code platforms are built on."
I work for a low-code software platform company and at least as far as we're concerned, I cannot scream "NOT EVEN CLOSE" loudly enough.
We're for building _business applications at scale_. Not Netflix, or the next great TODO app startup for teams, or any of that. Not the same ballpark, not even the same sport.
We're for building your companys HR app. Or an app to help Legal. Or an app to help field CSRs do front-line support. Line-of-business apps.
Maybe some of them are promising this "drag and drop your way to netflix" thing. I know we aren't, nor are any of our competitors in the low-code space.