No-Code Lost to Vibe Coding, But Here’s What You Should Use Instead

Let’s pour one out for the no-code platforms. They’re not quite dead yet, but I can smell the bitter end coming.

Thanks a lot, vibe-coders!

Over the last dozen years, no-code platforms and tools like Bubble, Wix, Webflow, Airtable, and hundreds of other free and cheap counterparts have filled a gap for low-tech founders and experimenters, allowing anyone to quickly whip up anything from a website to a prototype and extend that into a real production application.

For the last couple years, these platforms and tools have been under siege by the rise in “vibe-coding,” the “speak your app into existence” strategy birthed by generative AI and quickly preferred by a lot of those same experimenters.

That battle was a valiant effort, a worthy struggle, and ultimately, it’s looking like a lost cause for no-code as we know it today.

For over a decade, I’ve been holding up these no-code tools as credible solutions that let anyone compete in tech, regardless of prior experience, as long as they had the drive and the capacity to learn.

But now there’s a better, cheaper, faster way. And it’s time to jump on it.

And no, it isn’t vibe coding.