I’m currently in the process of converting a no code product to “pro code“ per their definition, and I agree with their intentions here.<p>Many of these efforts in the past (including the team I’m on) lump opinionated libraries in with what I call secondary programming languages.<p>Opinionated libraries can save everyone a lot of time, as long as they are programmable and allow easy access to levels below, as well as further abstraction upwards. Throwing a new programming language into the mix interferes with abstraction traversal and stack traces in a devastating way.
We have been using Journey's platform for years. We use it across multiple countries and tens of thousands of users. I can't recommend them enough.
Firm agreement about the goals! Over at Dark (<a href="https://darklang.com" rel="nofollow">https://darklang.com</a>), we've been referring to the space adjacent to Low/No-code as "Just code", to indicate that there's only code there and nothing else. Would be curious what other languages/frameworks the JourneyApps folks would include in "Pro-code"?
I wonder if you are familiar with the predictive databases?<p>We at Aito.ai have gotten lot of interest from different RPA/no-node users and providers, and predictive database queries seem like a best intelligent automation.<p><a href="https://aito.ai/blog/could-predictive-database-queries-replace-machine-learning-models/" rel="nofollow">https://aito.ai/blog/could-predictive-database-queries-repla...</a><p>It would be interesting to deeply integrate predictive functionality in your system, especially as it integrates a DB naturally. This could be used to offer predictive functionality from the plarform out of the box.
IMHO if you want to attract no-code users you need to change your site branding. It's very 'engineerish' aka probably fine for the crowd on HN but not on Indie Hackers. Look at Webflow/Airtable/Zapier and take inspiration. You're going to have a hard time resonating with that crowd. They like bright colors.