Ask HN: Experiences with low-code systems (Budibase,Appsmith etc.)?
by alphalima on Hacker News.
I’m thinking about introducing a low-code system to handle internal operational processes. I’m thinking things like viewing/handling dead-letter messages, manual intervention decision points, short lived operational tasks that haven’t yet/won’t be automated. I’d expect the software engineering team to manage these apps, so the benefit I can see is the quick turnaround on the UI, rather than handing over to non-engineering users for development. What are people’s experiences with these tools? More specifically: Can you do an effective SDLC with them? e.g. code on a staging environment, push to version control, promote to prod, rollback to old version Have you actually saved time with them? Did you avoid introducing unworkable complexity?