undefined | Better HN

0 pointskmnc5y ago0 comments

Wait, who are these people? WYSIWYG App builders have existed for decades and Excel still dominates. Maybe you don't agree, but the main reason for this in my opinion is because these app builders are way too complicated and learning them is largely pointless since their use cases are generally super trivial. Why build an app if Excel+Email works?

Further, if these things do start taking off I don't think the people using them will be non technical people, it will just be technical people shifting their job description.

It is like an all in one hammer, the craftsman throws it in the garbage, and the non craftsman has no idea what to do with it.

0 comments

basch5y ago

These app builders have existed for decades, but its the preloaded integrations that make this generation different. Instant connections to a multitude of cloud databases. Type in your credentials, visualize your data. And these integrations might not just be a database api, but come preloaded with schema to contextualize your database.

cosmodisk5y ago

It's not that they are difficult or something but usually the decision makers,who could make Excel,as a local database,backup system and CRM platform on Annie's PC go,have no concept of what's better or worse or that sending hundreds of Excel files back and forth is not a great idea. There are people out there running thousands people divisions and having no clue that they could probably get rid of 20% of them just if they would have some centralised system.

Why build an app if Excel+Email works?

Of course it does.There are people on YouTube making houses with swimming pools by carving soil with some primitive tools but does that mean it's the best way to go?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse