Today’s post is a guest contribution from Shawn Xu (no relations). Shawn is one of the early engineers at Ascend.io, got his Masters in Human Comput

Low Code No Code, Part I: Use Cases and Landscape

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Today’s post is a guest contribution from Shawn Xu (no relations). Shawn is one of the early engineers at Ascend.io, got his Masters in Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon, and writes an informative WeChat public account on SaaS called 硅谷成长攻略.

The "Low Code, No Code" (LCNC) category of software products has been a hot, trendy area of VC investment (at least in Silicon Valley). This concept of LCNC coincided, and in some ways catalyzed, the rise of so-called "citizen developers". However, this umbrella term LCNC, especially the Low Code part, remains confusing and often lumped together with developer tools and API products.

In this Part I of a two-part series, we will explore the hypergrowth of the LCNC economy from the lens of an investor, and provide a landscape in an attempt to organize this vast landscape. (Note: you should not treat this post or any post on Interconnected as investment advice. Please do your own research.)

In Part II, to be published in a few weeks, I will look at the trends that are pushing LCNC forward, share some product evaluation heuristics, and discuss why we haven’t seen significant LCNC innovation in tech ecosystems outside of Silicon Valley, like China.

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