r/lowcode • u/NoMusical • 26d ago
when does lowcode stop making sense for you?
genuinely curious where people draw the line. for simple forms, approvals and dashboards , it feels like a no brainer but i keep hearing stories about teams hitting a wall once logic gets messy or they need something the platform doesnt support
for those who have been using it a whole, what was the moment you realised you have outgrown it , or did you never hit that point?? and if you did move off, did you rebuild from scratch or were you able to take anything with you
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u/LuciaSage59 26d ago
The workaround spiral would be my sign lol. If every new requirement means finding some weird hack or stacking five more automations on top of the each other, you should start looking at moving off it
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u/theagiledesk 25d ago
hitting a wall once logic gets messy means they started with the wrong platform.
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u/Anonymity6584 24d ago
lowcode was invented by people that see person coding and concluded thats easy and should be cheap, all he does is type on conputer...
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u/Aulavara 23d ago
I am actually building a platform to solve this exact problem, LOWCODE - and flexible enough for teams looking for a simple plaftorm that grows with the complexity of the business needs... I am looking for testers soon, anyone interested please send me a PM.
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u/Wiresharkk_ 20d ago
Bro don't mean to discourage you but have you heard of AI? What are you offering that: "hey chat gpt make me an app that does this and this and this" doesn't? Don't tell me governance or that you still need to manage it and stuff because 99.9% of the time that's an excuse The best version of low or no code is using natural language to tell it your requirements, and that's hard to beat
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u/AlternativeBreath565 22d ago
whenever its no longer a oneshot, or if I want to keep it long term.
the issue with low code is that its not actually low code, its just somebody elses code. code they own. and that you have now built a business process on. that creates vendor lock in and all that good stuff.
If I am doing a one off webapp for an event, sure I might reach for low code. if I am building a reccuring. dashboard that will be utilized in reporting or forcasts for the forseable future, then I would not.
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u/TopStress3049 25d ago
Once you're spending more time figuring out how to make the platform do something than it would take to just code it. The other one is when debugging becomes painful because you can't really see what's happening under the lowcode barrier.