The Power of the No-Code Community

Physical communities allow us to connect with fellow human beings and provide a sense of security and well being. Online communities offer similar benefits and if linked to a shared purpose allow us to share experience and learn from others.

As no-code programming has developed in recent years, so has the no-code community. Tens of thousands of people all over the world share their experiences of no-code, ask questions of their peers and offer advice on how to improve and turn a hobby into a career.

According to Jacob Arnould, the CEO of Skippet, the image of a traditional developer is of an independent contributor connected to their computer but not much else. “But this no-code community is really collaborative and they're feeding each other and bringing in new people and expanding the community,” he said.

The no-code community includes:

• The no-code Reddit community
• The Siri Shortcuts Reddit community
• nocodefounders.com
• shno.co which lists 11 of the best no-code community sites
• nocode.tech which hosts the No-Code University with free tutorials
• https://www.buildinpublic.xyz/ which encourages no-coders to share their experiences creating no-code tools with others

On the Reddit no-code community, posters describe how they built a customer relationship management tool without coding or an inventory management app in 90 minutes. They link to videos to allow others to learn from their experience. People new to no-code ask questions and one poster asks for help to build a drinking game app.

Nocodefounders.com describes itself as a “global community of founders and businesses using no-code tools to grow faster” and says it has more than 13,000 members.

Jacob notes that members of the no-code community have a sense of feeling like superheroes with superpowers when they discover they can make their own apps and automations.

“No-code can be a hobby or people can then use it to improve their personal life or their work. I love the sense of people feeling excited, being creative and choosing to do it not because their boss demands it of them,” he said.

“It's a big community and people are always sharing a couple of blocks of automation that just instantly makes something really helpful like converting a file type from a PNG to a JPEG. All they do is click a button and it does it. Or creating an automation like sending a text message to someone as soon as they arrive at the office.”

Skippet will launch its app later this year and it will make no-code app development even easier by using natural language to create apps.

“Solving a problem or implementing a solution should be as easy as describing it. Someone may struggle to figure out a solution to a problem but if they can describe their problem, Skippet will solve it for them,” said Jacob, Skippet’s CEO.

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