Vendors

LowCode vendors: some are pretty aggressive in their sales strategy, but in general they are all the same. Their platform can do anything and is the best. Sure! 

We skip those sales and pre-sales people because it's our sincere advice to rigorously test before you buy. When you are using free platforms or better-priced platforms, perhaps it's ok. But when you find yourself being locked in to a three million-a-year platform, which needs a team of 50 developers to maintain your self-built software, you should really question yourself whether you still have that ROI on your LowCode platform. (And yes, this is an actual example)

There are some very happy customers and ISVs using LowCode. We have seen successful projects and transitions for companies that started using LowCode.

Also, the vendor is important when it comes to service. Service lock-in is part of most platform vendors and that is no problem, as long as they provide good service. To be honest, most platform vendors do a pretty good job, but some do better than others.

If you want to become a reseller or partner of LowCode vendors or build software as an ISV again, some vendors perform better than others.

As general advice, we would like to recommend that you try platforms before you buy. Don't waste time on a demo by the vendor; everything will work and everything is possible until it isn't!

Make sure your developers can play around with the platforms for some time - a few weeks is not enough. Make sure your platform has a large enough community so that solutions to platform problems can be found easily.

Let developers tell you which one they like the best, as they are the ones who need to work with the tool. Don't use LowCode platforms for complex mobile apps, as they are far more complex than web apps and when you encounter bugs, developers will want control over the code.