The Citizen Coding Platform
Rating: 8 out of 10
November 09, 2019
TD
Vetted Review
2 years of experience
App Maker is our internal "citizen developer" platform at work. Any department is free to use it to create apps and automate common tasks, though it's used most by our sales engineering department as a great way to deploy internal applications and departmental assistance pieces with minimal cost and effort. It's a fast way for non-developers (though they do need some experience with coding) to take care of things without submitting to the dev queue and waiting for the internal development team to jump on a small project.
- Minimal coding experience required. Javascript is a must-have, but the documentation is excellent, and once you're past the learning curve, it's great!
- Great WYSIWYG editor. It's easy to see the layout and still have deep control over what you're putting together.
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- We have seen a reduction in time spent on manual processes by being able to automate functions in Google Sheets, take input with special functionality, and have App Maker do the work for us.
- We have seen the internal development queue decrease, which allows us to focus on larger projects that couldn't be handled by App Maker.
- We have seen ownership and process improvements increase in certain departments, as they are able to get to work themselves.
App Maker is really kind of new in its own space. We haven't seen the level of functionality, nor the deep integrations, with anything else. It can replace a lot of products, and we've seen it in place in many applications across our organization, so it's been able to reduce our spend on products that offer specific functionality and still need to be customized.