My former colleague reached me out recently with offer to join his startup to build MVP of no-code web development platform. Such products might look interesting at the beginning, but I'm sure many tried and many failed, hence I want to understand:
1. Who are the customers of no-code products?
2. Do these customers stay in the long-term?
3. What are the top challenges that killed such startups?
4. In 5 years time, would we have more and significantly successful no-code products?
5. At what extent a customer might prefer a no-code tool over signing a contract with consultancy?
maybe check out this and other forums do get an idea of what people are looking for if there's a market etc.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nocode/
just in my quick look there seems to be a market for business lead projects in the enterprise, but the suggestion was use Gardener's top right quadrant.
I don't have any experience working with them, but have been a user of them. I co-founded a disaster relief non-profit a few years ago which was a good use case for rapid in-house tool development.
When your window of opportunity is 3 or 4 days, there's not any time for design meetings. You build what you can build in a couple of hours and move on to the next thing.
Based on that, I looked at a lot of the options out there and ultimately didn't find anything better than IBM's free tool Node Red, coupled with API gluing services like Zapier and Integromat.
I could see in-house tools being a market for them, I know there's at least one other one that specifically integrates with Postgres via the PostGrest API project but can't remember the name offhand.
Then again, if someone knows enough to use such a tool, they probably could be using Django in a couple of months of learning basic Python, so I'm not sure there is such a market, honestly.