Introduction
The no-code market is growing very fast. New no-code tools appear every day to make users' lives easier. As a manager, you have every reason to look into them.
This market, which was worth around $3.8 billion in 2017, is expected to exceed $21 billion by the end of 2022. Major tech players are also taking a growing interest in these solutions. Google bought AppSheet, Microsoft has its PowerApps solution and Amazon offers Honeycode.
Why should you, as a manager, care about no-code tools?
The answer is simple. These tools let you depend less on other stakeholders and become much more efficient.
With no-code tools, you can test a product without asking an already busy development team, which would take 3 months to build your solution.
By adding a few no-code tools to your ecosystem, you help your teams do more, more easily and more quickly.
Here are a few concrete examples:
- With Airtable, you can create powerful databases that are as easy to use as your good old Excel files.
- With Notion or Coda, you can manage a project in a simple, organized way, working collaboratively.
- With Webflow or Unbounce, you can create the ideal landing page for your product.
- With Zapier, Integromat or n8n, you can connect your tools to automate your tasks and processes.
- With Bubble or Adalo, you can design and build a mobile app with simple drag and drop.
- With Mixpanel and Amplitude, you can empower your teams by giving them the data analysis they need directly, without taking up a data scientist's time.
- The list could go on for a long time.
A world of work in full transformation
In the early days of the no-code movement, many people doubted that entire applications could become so powerful without writing a single line of code.
Today, there are many websites and apps built with no-code tools that support their growth up to thousands of users, without ever touching a line of code. This opens up promising prospects for the future of no-code.
2020, marked by the arrival of COVID-19 and remote work, sped up the growth of all these no-code and low-code tools. The future of no-code development looks promising, because demand exceeds IT departments' capacity to build and maintain applications. Gartner predicts that 65% of application development will be done with low-code or no-code by 2024. The firm also estimates that no-code developers will outnumber "traditional" developers at least 4 to 1 by 2023.
How to use Notion to increase your productivity
Many companies already use cloud solutions such as Google Drive. They let you manage many files online and, above all, work with several people on the same file at the same time.
These tools have already deeply changed the way we work. Yet companies quickly face a question. How do you avoid cluttering your online spaces, find your files quickly and avoid duplicating them?
Notion is a very good tool for organizing your content in a simple, visual way.
Here is why we like Notion so much (the Notion homepage illustrates it very well):
- Templates (Notion templates) help you get organized easily and provide an excellent framework to get started.
- Navigation is simple and convenient. You move around your knowledge base easily.
- Everything stays highly consistent. The styling is uniform and limited to paragraph text and 3 heading levels, which is all you need.
- The user experience is very well done, with many keyboard shortcuts and countless features.
- It is all-in-one software that can replace almost all the tools you use, such as Notes, Trello and most Google Docs.
- One detail that matters, the price is reasonable. Notion also hands out credits.
Are you convinced by the rise of no-code?
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