![]() Michael and Sam have been working on a no-code tool for business apps since 2017, way before the no-code trend took off. ![]() A better approach is to give the power of building to business users. Every operations manager has a long wishlist of internal dashboards, customer-facing portals, but only the top one or two can be addressed by existing vendors or technical resources. No matter how hard we try, there will never be enough SaaS products or internal engineering resources to fill in these CRUD app gaps. The basics are creating new rows or updating existing records in a database/spreadsheet, but the enterprise version will not only require restrictions on access to certain fields based on user groups, but also joins with other data sources. However, as soon as the spreadsheet is accessed by more than five people, the table interface typically becomes ill-fitted and requires an app with proper login, version control, and access settings to ensure that data remains intact and federate maintenance to each user. Millions of business processes run on spreadsheets that perform basic create, read, update, and delete actions (also called CRUD apps). ![]() Creating an app can be as easy as connecting to an Airtable or spreadsheet, modifying a few configurations, then boom, you have a full-fledged app that has a sleek UI with user authentication, permissions, and control built-in. This is a design philosophy uniquely held by Stacker, a no-code app platform built for business operators to instantly generate a functional app that perfectly fits existing business processes. Counterintuitively, these constraints also provide a finite amount of design choices, which leaves breadcrumbs to a preordained final outcome. When designing apps for existing workflows and schemas, there are more constraints to consider. The former strives for pixel-perfect fidelity, while the latter emphasizes security, flexibility, and efficiency. ![]() The fundamental difference between non-business apps and business apps is, the latter always starts with data and requires a shorter “time to MVP”. These tools are well suited to build new landing pages or the next marketplace app, but they often break down when faced with the additional security and control constraints of business applications for business operators. Most of these no code app builders start with a blank canvas and an assortment of drag-and-drop fields, buttons, images, and other widgets. No-code has democratized the ability to build applications, technical or not. We have reached an inflection point where millions of websites and thousands of mobile apps have been launched without a single line of code ever being written. One of the biggest trends emerging in the enterprise space over the last five years is the concept of “no-code” - a programming mechanism that uses a visual development interface to enable non-technical users to build applications. ![]()
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