Low Code Ninjas

Low Code Ninjas is about low and no code projects, ideas, technologies, and successes.

With LCN LEGENDS, we're highlighting top thought leaders and influencers in low code, starting with Karthik Puvvada -- known as KP -- from OnDeck. KP's goal: helping 10x the number of ambitious no-code builders in the world.

Links:

https://www.beondeck.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/karthikpuvvada/

https://followanalytics.com/

What is it like to build a no-code retail mobile app? What are the steps, and what can you expect from a top-nothing no-code retail app development platform. In this episode of Low Code Ninjas, we go behind the scenes with FollowAnalytics' chief product officer Antony Gardez to under the steps and stages of building your next mobile retail experience.

Google's not just self-driving cars, AI assistants, internet search, and email. It's much, much more ... including low code in the enterprise. We're talking healthcare, automotive, and many other verticals.

We dive into the era of low code and what it's unlocking with Google's VP/GM and Head of Platform for Google Cloud, Amit Zavery.

Topics include AI, enterprise, consumer, citizen developers, Google Cloud, low code (of course!), no code, and much, much more ...

How do we unlock fun for a billion underserved gamers?

In this edition of Low Code Ninjas, Peggy Anne Salz and John Koetsier talk to Jason Chapman, Managing Partner of Konvoy Ventures, about unlocking creativity for the next billion gamers ... and the millions who will make their games with low code or no code platforms. 

People in major existing global markets have plenty of gaming options, Chapman says. But not everyone all over the world. So … if we need millions of new games, we also need something else ... millions of new game developers.

Why are 74% of the top 50 retail apps hybrid?

Giant retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and Target offer hybrid apps. Tech companies like Etsy and Groupon publish hybrid apps. And so do brands like Nike. But why? 

In this special edition of Low Code Ninjas, Peggy and John chat about a report they just released: Low Code Explosion. We chat about what we learned, why companies are going hybrid (and low code!) and what the benefits are.

Looking for the full report? Get it here:

https://followanalytics.com/the-low-code-explosion/

VC, CEO, and Silicon Valley insider Joe Hurd unveils the secret weapon in digital transformation: low code development.

Digital transformation is hard enough in ordinary times. Now we have COVID. And we don't have enough developers. Low code, however, can help ... and it's fueling a massive shift in how enterprise and retail companies are mobilizing for new customer needs and habits.

Native can be great. But low code offers a compelling combination of speed and power that can sometimes convert the most die-hard native fan and make him or her a low code evangelist.

Seth Winters, VP of Innovation for DoTERRA, still likes native and mixes some native code into his low code projects. But low code saved him literally years worth of development. And going hybrid between low code and native turned out to be the best possible solution ... with huge speed improvements over his other options.

Every year, Christmas is critical for retailers. But maybe more than ever before … this year, it’s literally life or death. This year’s holiday shopping season is literally off the charts. We’ve had 5 years of e-commerce growth in just months of COVID-19, and consumer behavior has shifted from in-store to digital.

That consumer behavior shift means that retailers need to be digital first. That’s e-commerce, sure, but it’s especially mobile commerce. And it means brands need to get ready quickly, which only low-code development can enable.

To dive in, we're joined by Sunil Rao, who is the Global Head, Consumer Goods Go-To-Market at Salesforce.

How do you build 37,000 personalized gyms for 37,000 different people when Covid-19 hits ... and your San Francisco gyms are completely locked down? In this episode of Low Code Ninjas, John Koetsier and Peggy Anne Salz chat with FITNESS SF president Don Dickerson, whose gyms were completely shut down for six months.

For 3 years, Dickerson had been trying to build a FITNESS SF mobile app.

During COVID, he built one in 2 months, with personalized video, diet and wellness functionality, hooks into HealthKit and data from wearables, and much, much more, that will soon be a paid subscription-based app.

All of this ... with low code development on the FollowAnalytics platform.

Does low-code enable the impossible in enterprise? In this episode of Low Code Ninjas we chat with Greg Callahan, a partner at Bain.

Via its account-management division Coro, Bain builds pixel-perfect apps for massive enterprise companies in weeks using a low-code platform, enabling what was impossible or just very expensive and very slow before. The result: massive increases in sales of 20-40%.

And, as Greg explains, in a startup, you might be gunning for 100% growth. For the Disneys and Walmarts of the world, 20% growth is amazing.

We chat about:

- what mobile offers the enterprise

- how low-code fits in

- the difference between high-growth and low-growth companies

- what Bain is able to do for enterprise-level clients 

- how quickly they can build massive mobile apps

- what features are most critical

Links relevant to this show:

 - Coro (Bain's account management tool): https://www.bain.com/consulting-services/customer-strategy-and-marketing/go-to-market-strategy/coro/

 - FollowAnalytics (the tool that Bain uses): https://followanalytics.com