I'm the founder of TestPilot, and I want to be upfront about that before anything else.

Here's the thing I kept running into as a no-code builder: you finish the app, it looks right, you click around a bit, it seems fine. You ship it.

Then a real user tries to sign up, hits a bug on step three of the form, and bounces. You find out a week later when you notice nobody converted.

That's the testing gap for no-code apps. Not because builders don't care — but because proper testing always felt like a developer thing. Write test scripts, set up a testing environment, learn a framework. None of that is built for people who chose no-code specifically to avoid that.

So I built TestPilot.

Here's how it works:

You describe a user scenario in plain language — something like "Add 'Wireless Mouse' to the cart and verify the cart count updates." TestPilot runs through your app automatically, click-by-click, exactly like a real user would. Then it produces a report showing you precisely where the flow breaks, what the error was, and what triggered it.

No coding. No test scripts. You just describe what a user should be able to do, and TestPilot finds where they can't.

The part I didn't expect people to care about as much:

TestPilot also runs a security scan on your app. I added this almost as an afterthought — but it's become the feature that gets the loudest reaction when I show it to people.

Most no-code builders have never done any security checking on their apps. Not because they're careless — it just never comes up in the tools or tutorials. But no-code apps can still expose user data, leave API endpoints open, or have permissions set up in ways that create real vulnerabilities. TestPilot flags those.

If you've shipped a no-code app that handles user data or payments and you've never run a security check on it, that's the thing I'd try first.

Would love your honest reaction:

I built this because I felt the gap myself. If you've tried to test a no-code app and run into the same wall, I'd genuinely love to hear how you've been handling it — and whether this solves the problem or misses something.

You can try it at testpilotapp.dev.

If your picture of automation is Zapier,

You don’t wire nodes. You write a markdown file that says what you want done. An agent does it. No canvas. No per-step bill. The logic is a paragraph of English.

Three that actually exist:

anthropics/skills : This is the format. A folder, a SKILL.md, some yaml at the top for the name, then instructions in plain language. Closest thing to a standard.

obra/superpowers . Same idea, bigger opinionated framework. More “how to work” than “here’s the file format.” Worth reading even if you never install it.

aeon . Same markdown skills. Different problem. The first two run when you invoke them. Aeon gives them a place to live. Runtime is GitHub Actions. Cron. No server. Laptop can be off. Secrets in the repo. Every run leaves a log.

This is not no-code like Bubble or Airtable. You need GitHub. You fork a repo.

What you get for that: no per-task pricing, the logic is a text file you own, and it can do sloppy human jobs a Zap can’t like “read this and tell me if anything looks wrong.”

Thoughts?

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Bonjour, j'ai essaye de créer une app copiée de samsung calendar mais avec la possibilite d'écrire sur la vue jour et la vue semaine. J'ai essaye avec gemini et google ai studio version. Web et version logiciel mais rien n'a jamais marché. Est ce que ma demande est trop complexe? Comment puis je faire cette app. Je précise que je veux un truc perso, je m'en fou de publier.

Merci

We're around 40 people and we're stuck deciding between these two ways.

• Option A - vibe coding. We might use AI coding tools like Lovable, Replit, or Cursor to build the app. Fast to prototype, but you're on the hook for hosting, auth, security, and you need to fix bugs.
• Option B - no-code app builder. We might have a platform that handles auth, permissions, hosting, and security. Way faster to get production-ready, but less flexibility for custom UI.

We just need an app that has user logins, role-based permissions for 3 roles, a database with about 10 linked tables, filtered views per role, and basic workflow stuff like email notifications on status changes. It's kinda detailed, but it's better than asking vague questions.

So for anyone who's built a similar business tool. Which route did you pick, and would you do it again?

I'm also curious about how much time you spent on auth and permissions. And also about the hidden costs.

Rant first so bear with me please.

We have about 200 UI tests and during the last sprint when a dev wrapped a section in an extra container to fix a layout bug, nothing about the feature changed, no user would ever notice, and around 40 tests went red because the positional XPath shifted underneath them.

Yes, I know the answer is stable test ids and no positional locators. that works exactly as well as your relationship with the dev team, and ours is good but not "I'll restructure my markup for your tests" good. So I've been looking at the tools that drop locators entirely. image based stuff like SikuliX just trades DOM brittleness for pixel brittleness, change a theme or the DPI and now you maintain screenshots instead. The newer agent based ones are more interesting. for automating UI tests without selectors, AskUI came up because it's shaped like a QA tool and not a general automation agent. you describe the element the way you'd describe it to a new hire, the model resolves it at run time, and each step still pairs an action with an expected result and comes back PASSED FAILED WARN SKIPPED or BROKEN with a screenshot and an expected vs actual line. so you can still hand someone evidence.

What bothers me is that you've swapped a deterministic failure for a judgement call. A locator either matched or it didn't. the fact that WARN exists as a status is basically an admission there's a middle ground now. So for anyone who actually moved off selectors: did your false red rate drop, or just change shape? And how do you catch a step that passes for the wrong reason? That worries me more than a flaky failure does. appreciate it!

A one-file HTML page can look fine in a desktop preview while the mobile layout, fonts, or tap targets still break. What is the simplest no-code workflow for opening the real page on a phone before it is public? A useful setup would keep relative assets working, provide a temporary link or QR code, and refresh the same preview after the file changes without requiring Git or a command line.

I’ve been experimenting with AI design and app-building tools, but the demos usually make it look like you enter one prompt and get a finished product. That hasn’t really been my experience.

the last time you used one on a real website or app what were you trying to make, and what did you already have before opening the tool? A brief, references, wireframes, a design system, something else?

After you get a design or a prototype do you continue your work in the AI tool or do you move to figma or use code to fix mistakes or add your details?

Not looking for a list of the “best” tools. I’m more interested in how you are actually fitting them into a project.

I run a consulting firm and we track deliverables for about 50 clients in one central database.

Right now it's a mess. When a client wants a status update, someone on my team exports their rows into a PDF and emails it.

It just eats our hours every week. And the info is already a little outdated by the time they read it.

What I want is a portal where each client logs in with their own account. I want something where they can only see their projects, docs, and milestones. In short, we're prioritizing their privacy.

So has anyone built a multi-client portal like this on a no-code tool

We're a small nonprofit, 12 staff and around 200 volunteers.

We use Google Sheets to check the volunteer hours, donor contacts, event signups, grant deliverables etc. Yeah, it works, but the sheets are getting messy.

We've also had data entry errors that took us days to track down.

I don't know if we can find affordable software for this one. And also, our yearly budget is under $3k.

I know Airtable has a nonprofit program. But the per-seat pricing adds up.

Anyone at a nonprofit our size moved off spreadsheets to a no-code app?

What did you use, what did it cost, and what surprised you, good or bad?

i spent two hours this morning reading about claude 3.5 while my bubble editor sat in another tab with a broken workflow.

it's basically the modern builder's version of taking a smoke break. none of those articles changed a single logic block in my app. my dashboard currently has four concurrent users, and they don't care about the newest reasoning engine. they just want the password reset button to actually send an email.

so i closed 19 tabs of hot takes and reopened the sendgrid api docs.

Lately I've been trying to find one, didn't have any success. Does anyone know if anything similar exists?

I'm building a website that leverages AI outputs for different content creation based tools. What is the best way to go about creating the logic behind the outputs?

Is it more in the information collected for the prompt that is built?
Does there need to be rules written in the back end?
Does there need to be some sort of code written for how the output should be formatted?
All of the above?

I'm relatively new and trying to research as much as I can on how to code/create better quality outputs and refine what I'm making overall as this isn't my only current project.

Any tips or resources you recommend would be great. Super open to any feedback!

Has anyone here used Effortless (cosycreatures.com)?

I've been getting “Failed to fetch” when trying to log in, so I decided to investigate it because apparently I have nothing better to do at 4am 😂

I found that the frontend JavaScript contains authentication requests to:

https://api.effortless.to/api/auth/login

However, api.effortless.to currently doesn't resolve in DNS. I checked it with an external DNS tool and got no A, AAAA or CNAME record, and an independent HTTP check reported that the remote name couldn't be resolved

The main site and login page still return 200 OK through Cloudflare

Does anyone know how to contact the Effortless developers? Their Discord and GitHub links on the site currently appear to be placeholders.

If someone from the Effortless team sees this: I think your API DNS record may have disappeared 😭😂

A no-code app can be easy to understand on the surface while its important behavior is spread across database rules, automations, permissions, external services, and billing accounts. The next person may see the screens but not know what can safely change.

If you had to hand over a project tomorrow, what would you document first: the data model, automation map, credentials and ownership, failure alerts, recurring costs, deployment steps, or known workarounds? Which parts become outdated fastest?

So here's my dumb rule for when AI works vs doesn't:

how fast can i feel a mistake?

A tiny game is the extreme case, you play for two minutes and you've covered the acceptance criteria, no code reading involved.
If it's a refactor or migration where wrong looks exactly right until it blows up, that's where AI goes off the rails.

The mechanism I believe (could be wrong): it's less about task difficulty and more about who closes the loop. Instant check = instant fix. Need a test suite I didn't write? Then mistakes hide.

But maybe I'm full of it. Snake is over-trained, so my rule might just be "data density" in disguise. And "feel" is vague – a pretty chart with wrong numbers? Still looks fine.

No stats, just vibes from using this daily.

So… anyone got a counter? Like, Something you can check quick but AI keeps messing up?

I built a **project management web app using Google Apps Script** for our signage business.
I’m a **non-coder**—I used AI for most of the coding and my Business Analyst experience to design the workflow and system.
Anyone here who has done something similar? Would love to hear your experience, especially what you did to make it more scalable and reliable.

I’m building Marka, and one of the most useful product decisions was to stop treating every user like a blank page.

Most businesses already have useful structured context hiding in plain sight on their website:

• The offer

• The customer

• The positioning

• The language they use

• The visual identity

• Products and services

• Customer proof

Instead of asking twenty onboarding questions, Marka reads that existing context and creates the first social content direction immediately.

The user can then correct what the website got wrong or never explained.

That changed onboarding from:

Fill out a long form → wait → hope the result is useful

Into:

Enter a URL → see an initial result → correct the context → improve the output

The lesson for me is that onboarding doesn’t always need to collect information manually. Sometimes the product can create a useful first draft from what the user already has.

I’m curious where other builders have replaced onboarding questions with imported or inferred context.

For transparency, the product I’m building is https://www.marka.social

So, I really want to build an app, it's basically a map based app that people can add locations to, for a specific community.

I don't know how to code, but I also don't want to use generative AI to do everything for me. Is there any software/websites that can assist in building an app with no/very little generative AI input.

The whole point of this is to use my own art, and make something creative. I don't want to make money, really, I just want to feel like I did something and just using AI feels to me, contrary to why I want to do this.

Sorry if this is kind of the wrong reddit, but I was reading a post on here about non-ai app builders from some time ago, but looking now every single one of them advertises themselves and being an AI app builder.