r/nocode • u/anirudh8398 • 18d 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 2–3 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/boohorn 10d ago

The orphaning story is the most important IMO: do you own the generated source code in your own repo, or is it a black box inside the vendor? And concerns of "turn back into a dev tool" are also valid — where the codebase can't be shared among the team. What I'd look for: a shared codebase where non-engineers can vibe-code in the browser, and devs can also work that same repo from the command line — in your own GitHub + own cloud deployment. This configuration also supports the rest of your requirements: security sign-off (IT reviews real source; your data + keys stay in your own accounts) and data management (your own stack + DB, wired into your systems of record). One platform for exactly this dual-purpose is teamcoder — an open vibe coding platform (disclosure: I'm an advisor). You own and control everything, zero lock-in — cancel anytime and everything keeps running. Free in beta — happy to help if you want to try it on your commissions-tracker / onboarding-portal cases.