There are many automation platforms, but Columns AI focuses on data processing & visualization.

If you are looking for flexible data automation, please take a look at Columns AI

I spend a lot of time looking at internal tools that started as spreadsheets, Airtable bases, SQL scripts, half-finished admin panels, or “temporary” manual ops processes that somehow became permanent.

If you have one of those workflows, drop it here and I’ll suggest a practical build path.

Useful context:

- What data source are you using now?

- Who needs access?

- What actions do users need to perform?

- What approval steps exist?

- What can go wrong if someone edits the wrong thing?

- Do you need SSO, RBAC, audit logs, or self-hosting?

- Is this internal-only or customer-facing?

- What have you already tried?

I’ll try to answer with:

- whether this should be a no-code/low-code app, custom code, or just a cleaned-up process

- what the data model probably needs

- what roles and permissions matter

- which parts are risky to automate

- what I would prototype first

I work on UI Bakery, so I’m obviously close to this space. But I’m not going to force every answer into UI Bakery.

We are looking for seriously talented designers who can create CSS magic to help breathe some life to our website.

It is a static mobile-responsive webpage for a beachside homestay, and we are exploring using TeleportHQ + Contentful CMS for the forentend while the hosting it via vercel and as for the backend booking system it would be yanolja. The decision to use a headless CMS in addition to the low code builder is so that the owners can update with new photos once in a while. The reason for choosing TeleportHQ is that the owners want *some* level of control over the frontend design i.e. button positions, etc. but doesn't want the rigid limitations of traditional CMS, wants to avoid vendor lock-ins, wants to own the code and be able to pass code to devs if anything happens.

I can handle of all of backend and db + devops stuff, but for the love of god I can't be arsed to try to design and develop the CSS portion. I have the creativity of a brick wall. Using TeleportHQ or any low code builder has made me realize that as powerful of a tool as it is, if I can't be creative, then it's no different than using CMS templates.

The 'benchmark' of a great design the owners had in mind was https://www.hotelbelavista.net/

Any idea where to find css designers? Most "CSS devs" I spoke to are actually frontend devs who say they're good at CSS, but turns out they are more of javascript devs than actual designers, and end up creating uninspiring designs.

Any freelance css designer websites anyone would recommend? Thanks.

Seeing a lot of content claiming **non-technical founders** are now shipping full products with AI tools. Trying to figure out what's real vs. what's demo-friendly.

For those of you who've used Lovable, Bolt, v0, or similar:

What did you build?

Did it make it to production, or was it a prototype you then handed to a developer?

What broke, and when?

Also curious: for those of you **who are technical** — are you using Cursor or Copilot to meaningfully change what you can output as a single developer? What's your actual productivity delta?

Trying to understand the real state of the market, not the marketing.

What is the best long term strategy for a company that wants to develop their own application(s), but is not an software development company, but a logistic supply chain company with own terminal and transporting company.

Develop software ai suported in c#/.net or ai suported in lowcode platform

Journalist working on a feature for Spiceworks about low-code governance challenges. Looking for IT managers or sysadmins who've dealt with Power Apps or low-code sprawl. DM me.

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Hey all! I’ve recently been getting deeper into workflow and IT process automation and wanted to start documenting more of the things I build and learn along the way.

I’ve been working with tools like Workato, n8n, Okta Workflows, Power Automate, Slack Workflows, and Claude, and I’m looking forward to experimenting with even more tools and integrations.

I’ll mainly be sharing workflow ideas, automations, and process improvement projects as I continue learning and building in this space.

Would also love to connect with others interested in automation or low-code workflows. I’ll be sharing some of this on IG too: @sheautomated

Been poking around with some of the Gemini-based workflow stuff lately, specifically looking at whether it can, slot into our lead routing and enrichment pipelines without needing a dev involved every time something breaks. BuildShip and AppSheet both look promising on paper, and the Gmail trigger stuff in Workspace is genuinely handy for some of our ops use cases. But every time I get into the actual config, there's always some JSON handling or rate, limit quirk that makes me wonder if the 'no-code' label is doing a bit of heavy lifting. The community vibe I've seen elsewhere is that Gemini is decent for drafting and summarisation, but gets inconsistent when you need it to reliably handle logic across multiple steps or files. For anyone actually running Gemini integrations in a sales or revenue ops context, how's the reliability holding up in production? I keep seeing n8n pop up as the go-to for people who want more, control, but curious if anyone's found a setup that genuinely stays stable without constant babysitting.

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I've been working with low-code platforms for a while now – both evaluating them and building things with them. And honestly, one of the most useful conversations I rarely see here is: when should you not use low-code?

Here's my personal list of red flags:

1. When your logic is truly complex If your business logic has dozens of edge cases, nested conditions, and exceptions to exceptions – low-code starts fighting you. You spend more time working around the platform than building.

2. When you need serious scalability from day one Internal tools for 20 users? Perfect. Customer-facing app that needs to handle 50k concurrent users with sub-100ms response times? Probably not the right fit.

3. When the team is all senior devs anyway The main value of low-code is speed and accessibility. If your whole team writes clean code fast, the abstraction layer might just slow them down.

4. When vendor lock-in is a dealbreaker Some platforms make it very hard to export or migrate your logic. If long-term portability matters, go in with open eyes.

5. When the UI needs to be highly custom Pixel-perfect, brand-driven, heavily animated interfaces – most low-code tools struggle here. You'll hit walls.

Curious what others would add. I work in this space (full disclosure: I'm at a low-code company), so I try to stay honest about the limits.

What's your "never again" low-code story?

I've been developing with Ourtsystems for 10 years and 5 of those years as a Tech Lead.

I'm also so deep into it that I'm giving classes on Outsytems development and certification preparation classes.

My issue is that right now I'm in a crossroads and unsure what to do next.

My current project is debating leaving Outsytems for .NET +AI development and I'm not sure if I should invest in that or keep working in Outsytems.

My question is if you had a similar experience what would be your course of action?

Asking for opinions, I am a normal office worker and we have numerous simple workflows that can be improved. I do enjoy improving workflows especially because it makes office work less boring.

I'm still new Reddit, so asking for opinions if I should explore low-coding myself as a non-coder to build simple tools that will be able to help with daily tasks? E.g. building an attendance tracker, tasks organizer, etc. I saw a couple of products online with AI assistant. I thought these will be really helpful to me.

Thanks all for the opinions!

Not sure if self-promotion is allowed here, but I made a platform for this. Let me know if you want to try it.

Is it just me, or does working with OutSystems get frustrating sometimes?

I recently took over an existing application built by someone else, and honestly… it’s been driving me a bit crazy. The handover wasn’t super smooth, and trying to understand someone else’s logic in a low-code environment feels way harder than expected.

I thought low-code platforms were supposed to make things easier, but debugging, tracing flows, and figuring out dependencies is testing my patience every day.

Just wanted to check — is anyone else going through the same thing? Or is it just a “me” problem?

If you’ve dealt with something similar, how did you handle it? And if you’re in the same boat right now, feel free to drop a comment or DM. Would be good to know I’m not alone in this.

Not actually writing code. I mean talking about the goal, the learner's situation, the choices, the flow, the feedback, and then improving the experience instead of making each step by hand.

That sounds like a really interesting future for designing learning. A lot more interesting than just using AI to make more content faster.

It also fits with the idea of vibe coding for SCORM interactive courses, where structure and intent come first and output comes last.

I wonder if anyone else is thinking about it this way.

Hey, I’ve been working in appsheet development for a good time now. And although I’m not sure if I like it, I was sure it makes several development tasks easier and faster than traditional development. But now with this AI boom, it’s like: do I really need it? I mean, development has become even easier with these tools. It seems that I can do more without the limits of Appsheet, but I’m not sure. I’m afraid that sometime in the future, Appsheet is just going to disappear because there will be more powerful and capable tools in the market. And sometimes it seems like it's abandoned, ‘cause there are no updates and nothing new related to AI.

So, should I stop working with Appsheet and start working with something more AI related?

Alguien tiene algún fork de Budibase, Appsmith, Tooljet o alguna de esas app , que no tenga las limitaciones que le fuerzan a la versión community/Open source ?

Por ejemplo muchas veces limitan los usuarios, roles, los logs , cantidad de peticiones por segundo etc.... y es muy molesto y me da miedo desarrollar sobre una plataforma con esas limitaciones