This post will reveal author’s experience of working in multiple startups. The views are completely driven based upon his personal experience and can be found biased. By Navneet Maheshwari.
Author realizes in recent times and strongly believe that the startups for whom tech is not the primary product should not get into building platforms from scratch at an early stage of their journey. There are multiple reasons for this including volatile business model which keeps on reiterating and evolving, the talent acquisition cost for the tech team that is very high, there will be a very high business learning quotient for developers, leading to a lot of communication, it takes a lot of time to build stable tech etc.
With the recent development in the Low code space, I feel startups should focus on building tech with these platforms before jumping on building a complete in-house stack. With the recent development in the Low code space, author feels startups should focus on building tech with these platforms before jumping on building a complete in-house stack.
There arises a plethora of platforms that can help you build any software without much need for engineering bandwidth. The Low-code/ No-code platform can be classified into the following segments:
- Frontend: (Website Builder, E-comm, Landing Page builder, etc). Some of them are Shopify, Webflow, WordPress, Wix, etc.
- Mobile App: (App Builder). Appsheet, Glide, Shopney, etc.
- Backend: Builder.io, Bubble, ERPNext
Author worked in 3 startups so far and there are is one thing that is common; Building Tech products is difficult: It’s not just simply coding and delivering a project. It’s a continuous reiterative process. Good read!
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