Hey HN, I wanted to know the communities thoughts on whether there was any actual difference between no code and SaaS products. Is no code just a new marketing term for more usable SaaS?
SaaS is for any particular use case with a predefined set of rules and workflow specific to that particular use case or industry. No Code is basically a set of lego blocks to build any use cases without writing any code. So definitely there is a major difference. Examples could be <a href="https://bubble.io" rel="nofollow">https://bubble.io</a>, <a href="https://drapcode.com" rel="nofollow">https://drapcode.com</a>, <a href="https://www.adalo.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.adalo.com</a>, <a href="https://webflow.com" rel="nofollow">https://webflow.com</a> etc.
SaaS platform is more of no-code /low code platform for a particular use-case or solution say - Customer Support, CRM, Marketing automation, Email Marketing, Inventory Management, and so on.
whereas No code/low code development tools like <a href="https://www.outsystems.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.outsystems.com</a>, <a href="https://www.dronahq.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.dronahq.com</a>, <a href="https://www.bubble.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.bubble.io</a>, <a href="https://www.notion.so" rel="nofollow">https://www.notion.so</a>, <a href="https://www.adalo.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.adalo.com</a> can be utilised to build any of these solutions.
Software as a Service includes software with coding in it such as databases. But more importantly, some SaaS products require a lot of customisation and to achive a certain level of customisation you need to code. Think wordpress themes or Salesforce scripting.<p>NoCode promises a highly customised product that does things that traditionally needed code - like talking to APIs - but without any coding.<p>Often this means that in reality, you code visually or through a very complex series of dialogues and property lists that are akin to coding. This may however be more accessible or have a lower learning curve - even for an experienced programmer.
Yes, for a subset of new ventures.<p>These are more the no code for X, rather than a platform for building an application, if I understand the question you are asking.<p>Of course Kelsey Hightower has the only true no code app out there and anything else will eventually require code if it becomes economically viable