Jeremie Guedj - Aug 11th 2023

Intro

So we’ve got an idea to solve, as identified in Step 1 of the game plan. All that’s left to do, is just to build a web app solving that problem.

Small detail. It’s well known that having the idea is much harder than execution.

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Seriously now, having the idea is close to worthless. Execution is 99.9%, idea is 0.1%.

To start executing, I need to choose the different tools needed to build my solution.

Any software is built from multiple layers, which together form what is called a Tech Stack (more details below).

It’s like a cake. Or a building. Both are made possible by the collective of their layers or parts.

Let’s get into it.

Standard SW Development vs Low-Code vs No-Code

Let’s first address the solution space for tech stacks.

The vast majority of any software you use are probably built with standard SW development:

Software engineers build the complete product with code that needs to get compiled and then deployed to servers that needs to get maintained.
It allows for complete control over the product and it’s deployment
This comes at the cost of needing SW engineering experience + lot’s of engineer time time
Even creating a simple MVP only to get user signal can be a long and expensive adventure.