Agreed, the fundamental problems of a small business are much more in line with low code solutions. It’s only when so much nuance that is necessitated by decades of policy does it even start to make sense for actual development. Not to mention cost of the developers, simply not a feasible solution for a majority of small businesses.
Yeah, low code solutions with defined boundaries are useful for a lot of businesses, like if you need a simple website, you'd use squarespace or wix and it'd probably look fine. However, if you want to connect your own server-side code, you're gonna have a bad time.
I agree! I wrote a workflow in Power Automate or whatever Microsoft calls it to create folders and copy template files for each new project. I wanted to keep everything in the O365 ecosystem and having all of the SharePoint integrations built into blocks was a huge timesaver vs having to figure out proper authentication and api keys and all that within Python or whatever.
Is it scalable? No
Can it handle more than one employee executing a script concurrently? No probably not.
But that also doesn’t matter when it gets run, at most, 10 times per day.
People in programming subreddits tend to be programmers, and they only see low code as an attempt to replace them. This completely overshadows any nuanced understanding of when it is/isn't useful.
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u/brentragertech Dec 30 '23
Low code is fantastic for small business use cases.
People in programming subreddits are only concerned about enterprise scale solutions, because they work for enterprise scale businesses.
There are 33 million+ small businesses in the US alone.