Ask HN: What low code platforms are worth using?

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Plasmic Landing Page
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Plasmic

Visual builder and design tool for any website or web app stack.
Pricing:
- Open Source
As a "no-code sales person," I actually agree. It's why we started on https://plasmic.app, to bridge the gap between low-code and code—we think there can exist low-code tools that integrate deeply with existing code and codebases, to allow scaling in complexity. A very nice effect of this is cross-functional collaboration—once it's possible for the team's developers to provide the right components as building blocks, then the non-developers in operations, design, marketing and product functions can compose these into full pages.

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Val Town Landing Page

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Val Town

If GitHub Gists could run and AWS Lambda were fun.

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Anvil.works Landing Page
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Anvil.works

Build seriously powerful web apps with all the flexibility of Python. No web development experience required.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
The problem with low-code platform is that you are always restricted and can't go beyond what they offer. And someday, you will run across a problem that you can never solve with that platform. But there is a better way to do it. In my experience Anvil is the fastest way to develop a web apps. It is a framework that lets you do everything including Frontend, Backend and Database using just Python. I started using it when I was a total newbiew to programming and I am still using it. You can check it out at https://anvil.works It has a drag and drop designer so you can just drag a component, attach a python function to it and you are done! Even communicating with backend is as simple as calling a python function and passing data as parameters to it. If you want, you can also implement HTML, CSS or Javascript in it. In fact, Anvil allows you to "steal" javascript apis for browser and implement them in python. You can integrate any javascript library like that. This means you won't ever have to worry about being stuck.

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Apache NiFi Landing Page
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Apache NiFi

An easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Apache NIFI (https://nifi.apache.org/). It uses the concept of Flow-based programming. Also its so underacknolged but this tool is very flexible. I have used as an Event Bus all the 3rd-Party Integrations.

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