Top 10 Low-Code online Database app Creators

Important news about Low-Code online Database app Creators

2023. Microsoft’s new Power Platform AI copilot will build your apps for you



Microsoft has added its AI copilot to Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents and Power Automate. The idea here is to use AI to make using these tools for building line-of-business apps, flows and bots even easier by letting users use natural language to describe what they want to build. At its core, this works a bit like using the new Bing or ChatGPT. You tell the Power Platform Copilot what you want and then refine these ideas through a back-and-forth with the bot in the chat sidebar. In Power Apps, the main low-code tool of the Power Platform, users can now use sentences like “Create a time and expense application to enable my employees to submit their time and expense reports” and it will generate this app for them.


2022. Retool raises $45M to make building custom software as easy as buying off the shelf



Retool, the cloud-based app development platform, has secured $45 million at a valuation of $3.2 billion. Retool sees significant potential and essential tasks remaining in the realm of custom software — applications designed for a specific purpose and user. Since its inception in 2017, it has seen over 500,000 apps created on its platform with billions of queries indicating strong usage. Retool’s core platform currently revolves around approximately 90 “components” that can be assembled — not so much in a “low code” manner but to provide software developers and engineers with fundamental elements like forms, charts and tables. Additionally, it offers validation, accessibility and other tools necessary to ensure everything functions correctly. Developers can then integrate any database or API — including those with REST or GraphQL APIs, as well as PostgreSQL, MongoDB and other data sources — to complete the remaining software development.

2022. Appsmith, a low-code platform for building business apps, lands $41M



Appsmith, which is creating an open-source platform for internal development teams to build the custom apps they require, has secured $41 million in Series B funding. Although the company markets it as low code, it’s intended to accelerate the development process for seasoned developers rather than enabling business users to create applications, as some low-code platforms aim to do. It achieves this by offering many of the components necessary to build an application, such as front-end elements, data connectors, or access control, which are components developers often need to create from scratch.


2022. Liveblocks grabs $5 million for its real-time collaboration API



Liveblocks, a startup that enables you to transform a standard web app into a multiplayer experience with advanced hosted APIs, has secured a $5 million seed round. Alongside its live presence state API, the company is also launching its live storage API. In recent years, developing a web app has become simpler thanks to frameworks and APIs. However, enabling multiple users to interact with the same document, form, whiteboard, or piece of content remains exceptionally challenging. Liveblocks essentially speeds up this process. The startup initially released a live presence state API, similar to how you see multiple profile pictures in the top-right corner of a Google Docs document, indicating who is currently viewing it. You can also observe if someone is moving their cursor or selecting text. By integrating Liveblocks’ presence API, you can replicate this functionality, showing a list of users viewing a document and tracking everyone’s cursors in real-time.


2022. Brazil’s Abstra lands $2.3M to help teams make apps with its no-code tool



In the vast and bewildering universe of app development, where lines of code twist and writhe like agitated eels in a fish tank, Abstra has emerged as the improbable hero armed with a no-code tool that allows mere mortals—designers and programmers alike—to build professional apps with a flourish and a click. Having just conjured $2.3 million in funding (possibly from wise investors who simply didn’t want to write code themselves), Abstra is particularly adored by agencies keen on delivering faster results and non-technical teams tired of pleading with centralized engineering wizards. With Abstra, designers and junior programmers can whip up apps and websites at speeds that would make senior developers in larger companies clutch their keyboards in existential dread.


2021. AWS launches Amplify Studio, a new low-code app development tool



In a rather splendidly audacious move that could only be described as thoroughly AWS-ish, the cloud behemoth has unveiled Amplify Studio, a newfangled no-code/low-code concoction designed to let developers hurl together cloud-connected apps with the ease of an intergalactic sandwich maker. Now, while AWS Amplify itself was already out there assembling web and mobile apps, it was dreadfully lacking that irresistibly human, drag-and-drop allure, which Amplify Studio now proudly delivers. The clever twist? AWS cunningly tied Studio to Figma—the designer's holy grail—enabling designers to go about their business in Figma while developers then swoop in to weave together the backend data and logic in Studio. Ingenious, really, as it saves AWS the ghastly trouble of inventing its own design tool. Instead, Studio deftly converts Figma designs into React UI component code, leaving one to wonder if AWS isn’t quietly preparing to conquer app-building itself next.


2021. Google brings AppSheet automations to Gmail


Google has announced a new feature for its AppSheet automation service that will allow developers on its no-code platform to create custom apps and automation that can interact directly with Gmail. By leveraging dynamic email, developers can now build applications that users can trigger and execute right from inside their Gmail inbox — and while that has been the promise of dynamic email since Google announced it in 2019, we haven’t seen all that many developers really make use of these capabilities yet. With this, an AppSheet developer could now build an approval workflow or asset management system that users can update right from within an email, for example.


2021. Stacker raises $20M to help business units build software without coding



No-code platforms have evolved into a booming market and Stacker, a London-based no-code platform, is aiming to elevate the concept further. Not only can you develop a web application from a spreadsheet, but you can also extract data from various sources to automatically create a sophisticated business application (though some adjustments may be needed). To truly benefit businesses, the platform needs to integrate with the data they value. Thus, we allow users to incorporate their spreadsheets, SQL databases, Salesforce data and all the information they use to operate their business and automatically transform it into an app. Once the company imports the data and generates an app, users can start customizing its appearance, but Stacker provides a significant head start in creating a functional application right from the beginning.


2021. Bryter raises $66M for its no-code tools for enterprise



Bryter — an AI-driven no-code startup that has developed a platform used by around 100 global corporations to date across approximately 2,000 business applications and workflows — has secured $66 million in Series B funding. This capital will be invested into enhancing its platform and expanding its presence in the U.S. No-code startups continue to gain significant momentum among enterprises and Bryter is not alone in this trend: Airtable, Genesis, Rows, Creatio and Ushur are among the numerous startups creating "hands-on tech solutions for non-technical users" that have attracted investment in recent months.


2021. Noogata raises $12M for its no-code enterprise AI platform



In the far reaches of startup galaxy, where venture capital flows like particularly interested champagne, Noogata has emerged with a curious contraption that defies most things tech people would like to describe as “code.” Having secured a rather cosmic $12 million seed round, Noogata offers enterprises a no-code AI platform composed of what one might call “AI building blocks”—little clusters of intelligence just waiting to plug into anything from data warehouses to Salesforce to Stripe, like puzzle pieces in the universe’s most ambitious jigsaw. Imagine, for instance, an e-commerce retailer, slightly overwhelmed by the cosmic chaos of pricing, nudging these building blocks into place to optimize prices with algorithmic finesse. Or, picture a humble brick-and-mortar shop using these insights to precisely decide which widgets go to which store, as if guided by an all-knowing AI GPS.