What do our community members want from their tech stack this year?
Rather listen than read? This article is based on our podcast episode #121 - No-Code in 2025: What do our community members want?
Our four interview partners for this episode were:
- Luisa Gebel (founder of ArtitUp - online art gallery)
- Moritz Drescher (full code developer)
- Jan Siebert (entrepreneur, founder of HalloPodcaster)
- Jan Bock (No-Code Developer & Webdesigner)
And they also have very specific wishes for their tech stack this year:
- Luisa would like more privacy options for Airtable and better SEO features for Softr. She also calls for an expansion of the automation options in Make.
- Jan Bock sees the greatest need for improvement in the integration of design and development processes. Figma plugins and better interfaces between design and frontend in particular could optimize the workflow.
- Jan Siebert believes that AI has the potential to automate many of the manual no-code processes - from database structures to code generation.
- Moritz, originally a no-code developer, is now increasingly relying on full code with AI support. For him, low-code and no-code tools are currently still too inflexible to keep up with the new AI-supported programming environments.
How does AI influence your daily work?
- Luisa develops an AI-based personalized email campaign for her art platform.
- Moritz relies on tools such as Cursor, Vercel AI SDK and LangChain for advanced AI agents.
- Jan Bock experiments with AI-supported UX/UI design and automation.
- Jan Siebert gets help with the database structure and has already tested some AI assistants from the no-code tools.
Many no-code platforms already integrate AI-supported assistants - for example WeWeb's Co-Pilot or the Xano Generator. However, opinions differ as to whether these really add value.
While some believe that AI will make no-code even more powerful, Moritz, for example, argues that AI makes full-code so accessible that no-code could become less important. Could it soon be more efficient to work directly with code instead of relying on visual editors?
Bye No-Code, Hi Visual Development - What about this new term?
Another topic that was particularly in focus in 2024 is the term "visual development", which is increasingly replacing classic no-code and low-code terms.
This is how our guests feel about the term:
- Jan Siebert sees the term as a sensible further development, but does not believe that traditional developers will switch to low- and no-code tools as a result.
- Jan Bock considers "visual development" to be more professional and convincing for developers. An opportunity to unite both worlds.
- Moritz has an interesting opinion here. He believes that only tools with code export should be referred to as visual development. The export enables you to continue working on the code afterwards. Bubble, for example, does not allow this.
- Luisa criticizes the term as misleading, as it sounds a lot like design and does not reflect the full functionality of no-code.
At VisualMakers, we believe that the term "visual development" can help position no-code tools as serious development environments and increase acceptance among professional developers. It encompasses far more than just the "no-code" approach (which is actually not true) and gives development with no-code tools a new respectability through the "development" term.
Learning to code has never been so easy - so what role will no-code tools still play?
Will no-code still play a role in the era of AI? Or will AI-supported full-code development make it superfluous?
These are the predictions of our guests:
- Luisa believes that AI can be particularly helpful in the customer experience. For example, to provide better and more personalized recommendations in marketing.
- Jan Siebert expects that database design will soon be completely taken over by AI. A task that can otherwise be very tedious and complicated for non-developers.
- Moritz predicts that AI will simplify the full-code development process so much that no-code tools will become less important in the long term.
And what do we at VisualMakers think? - our conclusion
- Visual development: Tools such as Flutterflow or Xano now see themselves as visual development tools and avoid the term no-code. We are also increasingly using this term. We are now developing customer projects with a mixture of no, low and full code. "Visual development" covers this new type of development well.
- AI vs. no-code: Even though it's easier than ever to learn to program, we don't believe that this will necessarily lead to people doing it. Visual development has the clear advantage of the visual component. Coupled with the AI wizards specialized on the tools, it will be easier than ever to build software applications.
- Community: New members join our community and our Academy every day. And more and more companies are taking no-code and low-code seriously as technologies for more than just prototypes. 2025 could be the year in which visual development establishes itself as a permanent fixture in the world of software development.
One thing is clear: a lot will happen in the world of no- and low-code tools in 2025! And if you don't want to miss any of it, then join our Slack community! Over 1,000 other no-coders are waiting for you there: https://go.visualmakers.de/slack-community
