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No-code doesn't scale?

https://head.ai/content/when-no-code-stops-scaling
submitted this linkon April 24, 2022
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    I hate saying this (take it as tough love) but as an indie hacker you should worry about no-code stopping scaling when you actually reach that point (where your software can't take any more users).

    90%+ of our projects and ideas fail anyway so worrying about scaling upfront (most of the times) is just "premature optimization" IMO.

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      Great point - people worry about the wrong thing initially. It may take a while to have enough users to even think about scale and hopefully at that point you’ll have some money to do it the right way :)

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    Ditto as far as what darko said. No point in worrying about scale until you've actually got a product or service that people want. When your at that point, scale is a good problem to have, and there are lots of ways to go about solving it.

    I'm sure we've all heard the "do things that don't scale" phrase too. It's worth paying attention too. When you are just getting started, do whatever you need to do (within reason) you first customers ect. Worry about everything else later.