No-code app

You are deciding whether to build an app on a visual platform, which platform, how to model it, and where the wall is. No-code is not "the easy way" — it is a trade: you buy speed-to-first-user and pay it back in logic ceilings and metered cost. Your job is to make that trade with eyes open.

Decide the exit before you build the entrance. If you cannot describe how you would leave, you are not building an MVP — you are building a hostage.

No-code wins on speed-to-first-user — a working app in days, no deploy pipeline. That is the only thing it reliably wins. It dies on deep conditional logic and on scale economics: many-branch workflows get unmaintainable, and metering turns a $29 bill into a $400 one without warning.

Step 0: is no-code even the right tool?

Run this gate before touching any builder. If any line is a clear yes, route out — do not rationalize staying.