Our guest today is Gautam Nimmagadda, founder and CEO of Quixy, a no-code software development cloud platform provider in Hyderabad. The concept and even some of the tech has been around from as far back as when Visual Basic programming language was introduced some 30 years ago, Gautam says. Cloud computing, and the needs of a post-pandemic world, are moving the idea from geeks to business users

(00:40) Introduction to The Daily Tech Conversation

(00:58) Our guest today — Gautam Nimmagadda, founder and CEO, Quixy

(2:00) Quixy, a no-code software development platform that business users can use to put together applications without any knowledge of coding

(04:30) Lost in translation between the business customers needs and the software coder’s efforts; and other challenges of the transitional way of developing applications

(07:30) An idea that has been around for decades, but wasn’t called ‘no-code’; and had some limits

(08:30) Today, fairly complex applications can be built on these platforms and remote work has increased interest in them.

(11:45) Examples of popular applications in various verticals

(14:45) Digitalisation has become complex — this is part of the context for no-code software

(15:12) No-code simplifies these processes and allows more people to participate; therefore makes the processes more efficient; reduces the ‘cognitive overhead’

(17:18) Increasingly on the cloud

(21:10) What no-code development will mean for chief information officers and CTOs and their teams

(25:43) sticking to the guns on the idea of ‘no-code’ and not diluting it with a low-code approach, so that business users can use Quixy and not just developers

(27:08) Challenges in the way of broader adoption of no-code solutions

(28:30) Quixy’s growth so far

(31:05) On staying bootstrapped in an ecosystem awash with money