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0 pointsdataminded5y ago0 comments

> But I would never rely on it for a business.

You sir have options. Every place I have ever worked has at least one app that someone hacked together through some combination of PDFs, Excel and Access. This is a tremendous opportunity for those folks. The ones who will never learn to code, never learn to deploy an application and never get enough visibility to have a developer assigned to their project.

For the everyteam, these types of tools are exceptional. I continue to be amazed by what dedicated people pull-off with these no-code solutions.

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NOGDP5y ago

> Every place I have ever worked has at least one app that someone hacked together through some combination of PDFs, Excel and Access... I continue to be amazed by what dedicated people pull-off with these no-code solutions.

VBA, SQL, etc, which is probably what these apps are written with, are code though.

Honeycode is a language of it's own too, it's just a trade off between flexibility/power and learning curve.

datamindedOP5y ago

I should have been more explicit, the things are built in Excel and Access with the front-end interfaces not VBA or SQL.

buu7005y ago

Agreed. When I was a teenager a worked at an organization whose entire business was run on internal applications built out in FileMaker Pro largely by non-programmer teenagers and young adults. It was actually pretty awesome, and I was still able to drop into a basic scripting language on the few occasions I needed to implement some non-trivial logic.

Aeolun5y ago

I think it’s amazing people build a whole complex web of formulas and conditions, and then try to claim they didn’t use any code.

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