In India, a new wave of tech entrepreneurs are building startups without any coding knowledge

Vensy Krishna was among the lakhs of desperate Indians who scoured their towns for a hospital bed a few months ago. The Hyderabad-based lawyer’s mother had tested Covid-19 positive during the devastating second wave.

Fresh from her trauma, she put her knowledge of no-code tools to create Hyd COVID Resources to help others in the city. It enlisted essential resources such as hospital beds, oxygen cylinders, plasma, medicines, meal services, quarantine services and so on, in Hyderabad.

Created in only two hours, it went viral in no time. Krishna built the app using Glide, a no-code development platform.

No-code web development involves creating software using a graphic user interface, instead of conventional code-writing. Coding knowledge is not requisite to build and launch ideas when such tools are handy.

“No-code tools have been here for quite some time, but it was not all that rage,” Krishna said. “Everything has changed in the past six months, or even until December last year. With the Hyd COVID Resources, the first iteration took two hours. But of course, we kept improving after it went viral.”

In late April, the lawyer held a two-hour workshop on her experience, helping others create their own Covid resource apps in other cities.

With the “no-code” boom reaching India, launching an app-based business is becoming…

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