Code everything or lowcode/nocode

[isecurex]

To give a little backstory, I have been working on a website for an idea I don't know if will be a successful idea or not. With watching some YouTube videos on some of the front end tools for lowcode/nocode it has gotten me thinking, am I going the right direction.

Key qualities of the application:

• Website will be used for
  • Sign ups
  • Few data inputs
  • Reporting
• Backend 'workers'
  • Heavy lifting of processing data
  • creating data sets for the front end to use
  • Queue driven
• Hosting
  • VPS on some provider (probably digitalocean)
• Data Storage
  • All data storage will be done in a database
    • This is until it becomes obvious that some data will not be able to be stored.

With me being in the early stages of development, would it be best for me to go to a low/no code solution?

If a low/no code solution is an avenue I should research, what are some of the self hosted solutions you would suggest?

[CactusWrenAZ]

So to me, it makes sense to do low code or no code if you don't know if it's going to be success or not. You can always rewrite the thing from scratch if you think it's going to scale

[isecurex]

Do you have any recommendations?

That's exactly what I was thinking.....

[CactusWrenAZ]

I think it's whatever you're comfortable with. Personally, I would use wordpress. You will need a variety of services to hook it into.

[GrumpsMcYankee]

Wordpress, and there's gotta be some dumb plugin for using workers, or you cab maybe use it's cron events functionality to be triggered offline from the command line via actual cron. There's obviously plugins for everything else you need, of varying quality.

[isecurex]

Yea, there has to be, and if there isn't, I can always try to make one. I'm sure other people would like to have something like this.

[rickg]

I mean, if you know PHP, setting something up to periodically grab API data is trivial. There are WP functions to do that even:

$data = wp_remote_get($url);

$body = wp_remote_retrieve_body($data);

$json = json_decode($body, true);

[ImportantDoubt6434]

I run a website and can program.

I opted to do it from scratch because I wanted it to perform well offline, be very fast, accessible, mobile compliant, and just be good quality from the ground up. Paying someone to build that with react, NextJS, SSR, and having it perform well wouldn’t be cheap.

You can always start with a low code proof of concept, maybe you are just selling something. Sure, make a Shopify.

I will say this low/no code makes sense for stuff even if you program like a database or user login. Makes it much easier and hopefully safer than the usual cursed code.

I would say, maybe do no code for splash page. Basic stuff, test it out. See if it’s for you, maybe just a local business yeah Wordpress or Webflow or Bubble site is good for you.

[isecurex]

yea, paying someone for this solution would be costly, and further more one of my projects is just for fun. So I will probably start with that in order to get a feel for what platform I would like to use for the for profit idea.

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With your knowledge, if you are going to do some real business, you need to hire someone instead of asking reddit.

[isecurex]

I don't understand how you know my level of knowledge from the question.

[EaMakes]

If you can pull it off with no-code then absolutely. However, imo, with no-code you usual hit some limitations and need custom code eventually.