Many early-stage venture-backed companies rely heavily on their product teams - perhaps more heavily than what is really necessary. These companies often get blocked or slowed down by their product output because there is only so much the product team can build; tasks like getting customers' data into a CRM, reporting on data, building MVPs, etc., can pile up because the product team does not have the capacity to handle all of the requests.
Great article! One question though, when you talk about building comprehensive APIs for developers to build off of, do you mean having flexibility w exporting source code? Similar to how Webflow allows you to export the HTML/CSS if you choose to build in house? Just wanted to clarify
I meant they will have APIs so you can build around the no-code tools. For example, Airtable has a basic API for CRUD operations but they are working on a metadata API (https://airtable.com/api/meta) that will make it possible to do many more things like column lookups so you don't need to have your own mappings stored.
Great article! One question though, when you talk about building comprehensive APIs for developers to build off of, do you mean having flexibility w exporting source code? Similar to how Webflow allows you to export the HTML/CSS if you choose to build in house? Just wanted to clarify
Thank you!
I meant they will have APIs so you can build around the no-code tools. For example, Airtable has a basic API for CRUD operations but they are working on a metadata API (https://airtable.com/api/meta) that will make it possible to do many more things like column lookups so you don't need to have your own mappings stored.