Do you remember Google Wave? You’ll be 100% forgiven if you don’t because it wasn’t around for very long. What was supposed to be the “be all and end all” of group communication from Google themselves… just never took off. It’s important to...
So you know exactly what kind of application you want to build. You can visualize the whole thing in your head and damn is it sweet. Congratulations, you’re most of the way there. Now, let’s take a look at the specific platform features you’ll...
Citizen Development, Betty Blocks platform, No-code, Article
A couple of weeks ago, my grandpa showed me how to burn CDs. I said, “Wow, cool grandpa, I will try it out back home.” A little later, I walk out the door with Spotify Premium streaming through my smartphone. I applaud him for making the effort...
In my last blog, “No-code: How it Works”, we went over the basics of what no-code platforms really are. Which is great if you’re just starting out but it does, of course, raise a second very important question. What applications can you create? ...
Citizen Development, Betty Blocks platform, No-code, Article
Remember when tech was a boring place for boring men? Yeah, those days are over. Tech has become a vibrant and fun ecosystem that moves faster than ever. What hasn’t changed much is that it’s still a predominantly male world. But we think that...
HpaPaaS. RAD. DPA. LCAP. OMG. WTF. Whatever you call them, there are no-code platforms and there are low-code platforms. They allow users to build different types of applications with limited coding or none at all, and they do so because software...
Digital Transformation, Citizen Development, Betty Blocks platform, No-code, Article
One of the most frequent questions we get asked is, “How can you possibly build an application without writing a single line of code?”
Let’s start by acknowledging what coding is. Building an application traditionally requires 2 things:...
Citizen Development, Betty Blocks platform, No-code, Article
I could start by telling you that innovation is at an all-time high, how exponential growth is happening now, and that you should definitely digitally transform just to keep up. But, that has all been said and done. So, let’s just get pragmatic:...
Last week the big news came out that Microsoft and Betty Blocks entered a strategic partnership to democratize application development. Ridiculously bananas as that news is, we understand that it opens the door for a lot of questions. We even had...
Innovation is one of the buzzwords of the last couple of years and for good reason. We are at the tipping point of technology and actual innovation is happening faster than ever. But, there’s more to innovation behind the buzz and that’s where...