A No-Code Newsletter - The 50th Issue!

February 23, 2021

The opportunity of no-code is to fundamentally shift the paradigm in which IT and business teams operate — turning IT from an internal service provider responsible for creating custom technology solutions into a body capable of empowering business teams to build their own technologies.

With the right strategies, structures, and models no-code and low-code tools will unlock a new era of innovation in the business.

But it will not do so on its own; the technology is not a silver bullet.

To use it effectively, your organization must collectively commit to all aspects of the effort, from research to adoption to embracing a culture of democratized technology development.

Tool Spotlight: LiveFlow

Get all your finances in one place - Integrate to your accounting platform, bank, and payment platform - No more hours wasted on manually updating spreadsheets. This is just the beginning.

Control your startup’s financial future. Without spreadsheets. Pry makes it simple for companies to manage their budget, hiring plan, financial models, and cash runway.

The Reading List

This morning OutSystems, a low-code app development service, announced that it has closed $150 million in new capital. The round was led by Abdiel Capital and Tiger Global. Notably this is not the…

Oribi, a no-code marketing analytics tool, has raised $15.5 million in a series B round of funding to take on Google Analytics all with no-code. Oribi can also be used to export information it has collected to other marketing tools (e.g. Facebook), customer relationship management (CRM) systems, and email management systems — this is what positions Oribi as a kind of “codeless alternative” to customer data platforms such as Segment.

RankedVote used Webflow to prove its early concepts. It’s gone from minimum viable product to a full web app with thousands of users.

The creator movement has exploded in the last few years as platforms ranging from Substack to Clubhouse have made it easier than ever to reach an audience of willing readers and listeners. Yet the key to building sustainable creator businesses is the economics of these enterprises themselves.

Tweet of the Week

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The newsletter service is a software company that, by mimicking some of the functions of newsrooms, has made itself difficult to categorize.

Runops is a command-line app that lets you query databases and manage servers using a single tool. It adds Git versioning, reviews in Slack, and sensitive data masking to every command you run from the terminal.

👨‍💻 Videos of the Day

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No code empowers business users to take over functionality previously exclusive to technical users by abstracting complexity and centering around a visual workflow. This profound generational shift has the power to touch every software market and every user across the enterprise.

Tutorial of the Day: AppSheet

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