Let’s chat today, because several friends around me have been saying that their companies are also preparing or are already building low-code platforms. Most of them are big factories, some of which have been invested for more than a year and have been thrown away. I went in for a few million, and it still feels like a long way to go. It can be seen that everyone is aware that at present, without a low-code platform support, the R&D efficiency is too low, and the R&D cost is too high.
So far, I have experienced the construction of low-code platforms three times. Every time I build a low-code platform, it is a collection of the company's elite strength, which requires more than two or three years of investment. Previously, the company's low-code platform was also invested in Twenty million or more. Yesterday, I also searched for the word "low-code" on Baidu, and turned over about ten pages. There are about 23 manufacturers. You say, what should be the gap between the low-code platforms? I think it should be the depth of the architect's understanding of the business and the breadth of the business grasp.
For example, the modeling function, although it is simply to create a table and create fields, but if a table is created, it comes with some common default fields, such as creator, creation date, modifying person, modification date, tree nodes, etc., it will It makes the user more comfortable, and the details are often the most distant place. This is also a test of whether the architect himself has summarized and abstracted the business. The following is an example of a quick ride platform:
For example, the interface designer, here is the place where modeling, interface and logic are integrated, and it is also the function of opening up the grades of various low-code platforms. A poor interface designer is just a form, and a good interface designer is a drawing board. , provides a lot of components, you can put them how you want, and what you see is what you get, and also provides a code editor, you can change the style and write logic, and whether the components can be customized and expanded, and can you quickly reference the more popular ones in the market. Components, etc., only by providing these, the R&D personnel will not be limited by the platform, but can avoid repetitive work and spend time in more valuable places. For enterprise management business, there are no more than three points: one is data collection, and manual input is usually the list and form operations of additions, deletions and modifications, as well as the input of external smart devices, one is process control, and the other is data analysis, cleaning the collected data Analysis, the value of R&D personnel is more in adding components, improving code reuse, improving external smart devices or artificial intelligence, etc., which can expand the boundary and improve efficiency. Therefore, whether the platform architect can control the platform's There are stages in the boundaries, and only in this way can products have trade-offs.
For example, after the Kuaidai platform took 3 years to build from 2017 to 2019, the next two or three years have been polishing the details, and polishing them through projects. The details are the most time-consuming to polish, and they also test the architect's cognition the most. The place.
The quick ride platform has been released on gitee for everyone to use.
When choosing a low-code platform, you must choose the one that fits your business scenario, and taste the deep cognition of the architect through the details.