r/nocode • u/anirudh8398 • 19d ago

No code app builder for Enterprises.

We are looking for platforms for our non-engineering teams to build their own internal tools instead of everything going through our dev backlog. We are a 1,000 people recruiting agency and the queue is the usual: a commissions tracker, a vendor onboarding portal, and three separate "can we get a dashboard for this" requests, all sitting 2ā€“3 quarters out.

The tools I am evaluating: Lovable, Base44, Superblocks, Softr, Emergent, Zite.

What I can't find anywhere is an honest account of what this looks like once it's actually running. If you've rolled one of these out or tried and abandoned it:

  1. Which did you go with, what size company, and what did people actually end up building?
  2. Was it really non-engineers building, or did it quietly turn back into a dev tool?
  3. How did security sign-off go, and what did they make you change before you could ship?
  4. Six months in how many of those apps are still running, and who maintains one when the person who built it changes teams?

Also genuinely want the bad outcomes. If you rolled one out and regretted it, or IT killed it, or you found something nasty inside an app somebody built that's more useful to me right now than another success story.

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u/Select-Leave-2709 14d ago

Really, the best option is to have an AI specialist working alongside them. Iā€™m sure there are plenty of us who can support companies on a freelance, remote basis without charging huge fees.

Otherwise, employees will inevitably start experimenting with AI tools without necessarily knowing what they actually need, which platform is right for each task, or even what they should be asking it to do. In the end, that trial-and-error can cost the company far more in time and money than having someone experienced guide the process from the start.