"so you just build apps without code?" - Uhm, yeah?

Dave Talas
March 22, 2024
5 minute read

For the last decade, you kept hearing: "Learn programming or you'll be left behind."

What a lie...

You see, programming is important and useful for sure, but for everyday use cases, it's an overkill.

Hiring a developer or a team to build you an app that millions of users will use monthly, needs to handle lots of crazy edge cases, must work on all operating systems, etc.? - Probably a wise choice.

Hiring a developer to integrate GPT or Claude into your spreadsheets or databases? - Definitely an overkill.

It's like bringing a gun to a knife fight.

I'd like to assure you, you don't need to know any programming language to build automations.

I don't know how to code and I can still build cool stuff.

Last week I built an app in 5 minutes that watches our main company inboxes, and when there is an email with the word "invoice" in it, it uploads its attachments to a specified folder for bookkeeping.

This proves the only programming language you need now is your native language. And a good thinking.

I just hopped of a call with a prospective client, and they asked: "So you just build apps without code? Where is the code that's running in the background?" - with a suspicious facial expression.

And I simply said, yeah, let me show you. And I went on, shared my screen and showed this automation:

Let me explain what you see.

There are 5 colorful circles, representing a STEP in the process.

  1. The first one is the trigger, that "Watches new Files" in a certain Google Drive folder. This folder is for audio transcriptions, whenever I have an audio file to transcribe, I upload it there.
  2. Then the second circle simply downloads the file.
  3. Then if the file is under 25MBs, it gets sent to the 3rd circle, which is Whisper-1, OpenAI's Speech-to-Text model, and creates a transcription of the audio file
  4. Once that's done, a new Google Document is created in a certain folder
  5. And for housekeeping, the last circle moves the audio file to a different subfolder called "processed audio files"

I think I put such this thing together in an hour.

So if you have a structured thinking where you can think of simple workflows like this in a step-by-step process, you can build something like this too.

I think for me, going to medical school and understanding the processes in the most complex system known to man — the human body — helped a lot to develop this thinking.

And I've created a lot of courses to teach you this.

I can't be there to build automations for everyone, but I can help you do the same for yourself.

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Best,
Dave