This mostly reads like marketing copy for the tools mentioned. In my experience, they're good - even great - at some things but also limited once your needs become more complex. And excel is not going away anytime soon.
However, the ending is completely inexplicable:
> The No-Code Generation has the potential to finally fill that missing productivity gap in the global economy, making our lives better, while saving time for everyone.
What gap is this referring to? The gap between productivity and compensation? How does increasing productivity "fill" it? It's also pretty funny to define a generation by the productivity software that's available.
When computers were still a fairly new phenomenon, it was assumed that they would be an absolute game-changer and that productivity would go through the roof, objectively quantified in terms of revenue per employee. Productivity has in fact gone up, but not by leaps and bounds, and this is a puzzle to economists and other social scientists who study this sort of thing.
It's almost as if journalism involves sifting through the PR pitches in your email inbox, and deciding which ones make good enough copy to hit your weekly/daily news story quota.
I have no idea what the name of this "gap" is. But, there are still countless workers trudging through mind-numbing tedium who could regain hours or days per week with a moderate application of no-code. I've helped several do just this.
I honestly thought this was by design. If not by design, I find it difficult to explain the fact that so many developers create CRUD apps as a means to earning a living and have done for decades.
Excel. Users are often already using it, but have absolutely no idea what they could do with advanced formulas or super minimal vb script. There are still people sanitizing 300k line spreadsheets (hunting spaces etc) by hand.
The gap between business demand for functionality which improves customer experience and productivity, and IT capability to provide said demand.
Hacker news is filled with programmers who feel proud about their craft, and, judging on the comments here, feel threatened.
Yet it seems most of these people have never been in a big company where 90% of the world's business software is used, had to deliver something half-assed due to this ridiculous gap, which the business is elated for the next 10 years, with the programmer ashamed.
That's the value of software - supporting business processes. You can cut a lot of corners if you achieve that.
However, the ending is completely inexplicable:
> The No-Code Generation has the potential to finally fill that missing productivity gap in the global economy, making our lives better, while saving time for everyone.
What gap is this referring to? The gap between productivity and compensation? How does increasing productivity "fill" it? It's also pretty funny to define a generation by the productivity software that's available.