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Battle of Approaches

No-code vs Custom development

No-code
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Custom development

Hi, folks! Now we are building a startup, it’s a B2B marketplace, so we would like to know what to choose. We heard many times, that no-code technology allows creating a viable marketplace without programmers and launch the project in short terms. On the contrary, many developers don’t recommend no-code, because there can be some problems. Can you give me the pros and cons of both options?

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No-code vs Custom development

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No-code

Custom development

Votes — 1 points
4 positive arguments
3 negative arguments
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2 positive arguments
2 negative arguments
No-code
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Positive argument for “No-code”

Programming for everyone

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No-code allows you to get more people interested in product development into the tech industry, it opens up great opportunities for anyone to create their own apps without coding skills. Previously you had to learn to write code or hire someone to do the work, but now with the help of no-code, you can quickly build a startup on your own, with only a basic level of visual programming skills

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Positive argument for “No-code”

Fast access to MVP

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With no-code, it's very easy to bring a product to MVP: build a minimal viable product, launch the project and test the existing hypothesis. Subsequently, if the launched idea works, you can hire a team of experts to further develop and scale the project. At the moment, no-code is a very convenient tool for launching and analyzing a small project. In the future, this type of development will increase its potential, allowing the development of more complex platforms, but at the moment no-code is still more suitable for MVP.

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Positive argument for “No-code”

Cut costs

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Even with a small budget, you can make your idea a reality for $50 a month without additional outside investment. Thanks to cheap development with less time and special skills, you no longer need to hire a team of developers and buy expensive software, you just install the necessary software on your computer and get acquainted with its functionality. Using no-code tools with visual inerface you can build a working application by yourself, run it and evaluate its functionality. The costs will be only on payments for no-code tools, which will be cheaper in the long-term development of the final product.

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Negative argument for “No-code”

Complicated scalability on large volumes

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Although no-code is quite flexible, it's impossible to get quality results with complex development. Nowadays, only job boards and marketplaces are built with no-code tools. Projects created on no-code are very difficult to scale in the future. Visual designers, in any way, are just a set of typical solutions, and their toolkit is very limited. As the company grows, the demands of business increase too, requiring out-of-the-box approaches to the regulation of the users' problems, which significantly reduces the functionality of the product and requires the intervention of programmers. This is why it is important to clearly understand your requirements and determine whether they coincide with the capabilities and limitations of a particular no-code tool.

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Negative argument for “No-code”

Linking to a specific platform

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In today's world, technology is developing more and more rapidly every day. Like them, the trends and needs of startups themselves are changing. By choosing a no-code platform, users become dependent on its provider and all the problems that arise in the future will have to deal with it. This should be taken into account when choosing a platform. Also, as time goes by, the no-code services themselves become obsolete, so customers need to "move" the project to another platform, which is very difficult to implement because each platform exports the existing data in a binary file, which is readable only on it. So it takes an impressive amount of effort and time to migrate your code.

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Negative argument for “No-code”

Lack of product individuality

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Launching a project, every company wants to introduce its product in a special way that will differentiate it from competitors' products. Unique solutions look better among the rest of the template crowd. Many entrepreneurs are trying to give their product an individual character, but in the case of no-code technology, it is very difficult to do because of the formulaic nature of its variants. Templates don't allow you to create unique products, their capabilities are very limited. No-code solutions will not suit those who are looking for originality, you still need designers and programmers for that.

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Positive argument for “No-code”

NO CODE ( TIME SAVING ) SOLUTION

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as per client requirement , always everyone on rush, want to be give as soon as possible solution by visual presentation , so NOCODE Tools Best way to showing visual presentation in less time , & helpful for client conversion , & less time covered client requirement , I am very exciting to use all NO CODE Supporting tools , i recommend it NO CODE

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Positive argument for “Custom development”

Flexible development

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When launching your product, you don't have to worry that the idea won't come to fruition. Custom development eliminates this option. It makes it possible to fulfill absolutely any business need. Software developed by qualified coders allows you to solve the growing demands of users by introducing or modifying functions, systems, and formulas. And the structure and functionality of the system itself will depend only on customer requirements and niche demands. With custom development, the owner decides what and when he needs to change in his product. The developer isn’t dependent on the requirements of no-code platforms and at any time there’s an opportunity to transfer existing data to a new platform or scale the product to any amount of data and users.

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Positive argument for “Custom development”

Individuality

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Currently, it's very difficult to impress users with a unique product design and functionality. This is especially hard to do if the niche is popular and the competition is very high. Template no-code tools are unable to create anything outstanding. In this case, individual development comes to mind. With its help, it is possible to realize a spectacular product with a user-friendly interface, which will be remembered by users and is easy to learn and use. Skilled professionals think through and create unique solutions, able to give the final product those goals that are conceived by the owner. This ensures product recognition and helps increase user growth. If the niche is already occupied, it means that it is necessary to impress the user and provide him something he’s never seen. And that's what templates won't do. You need sophisticated animations and going outside the box. And user experience, of course. A UX designer doesn't eat his bread in vain: he studies users' needs, builds logical schemes of how the interface works, to make a truly awesome flow

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Negative argument for “Custom development”

Very expensive

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Unlike no-code development, custom development is very expensive. When creating your own product, the owner needs to pay for absolutely all the costs incurred in the development process. The price of custom development will vary depending on the needs. The initial amount, in any case, is much higher than the monthly subscription to the no-code tools because you have to pay not only for the work of qualified specialists but also for the specialized software with which the product is developed.

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Negative argument for “Custom development”

It is difficult to find developers

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Even though there are a lot of skilled developers, it's quite difficult to find a truly qualified specialist with the required level of knowledge. Such experts are worthy, but they are very few. Some developers ask huge sums of money for their work and their schedule is planned weeks ahead. To get such an expert on your team, you have to wait for some time, from a few days to a couple of months, which is not always justified, especially if the product must be released in a short time.

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