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# Kind of a Big Deal
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/kind-of-a-big-deal/
- Published: 2022-10-11T16:45:39.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-12T21:26:52.000Z
- Description: Make no mistake: Low-code/no-code has arrived.
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Future of Work, Low-Code/No-Code, Technology, Trends, Attempted Humor, Citizen Development, LCNC book, #not-too-tall, #no-crop

"In God we trust. All others must bring data."  
—William Edwards Deming

When I began researching [the new book](https://www.philsimon.com/books/low-code-no-code/), I knew that low-code/no-code tools had started to gain acceptance. [Ten-billion-dollar valuations](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-13/airtable-scores-11-7-billion-valuation-plans-europe-expansion?ref=philsimon.com) tend to validate a market. At the same time, though, I doubted that they had gone mainstream.

Yet.

To further verify my assumption, I launched an informal poll on a LinkedIn project-management group. It received 60 responses before the moderators inexplicably removed it.

Despite its limited shelf-life, the decidedly unscientific results supported my initial hypothesis:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8f/b5/8fb5e321-49a6-4cf5-8a28-c6f6d5417e54/content/images/2025/05/poll-2.jpg)

Informal LinkedIn Poll

Of course, the adoption of every new tech is uneven. (Cue [Gibson quote](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/681-the-future-is-already-here-it-s-just-not-evenly?ref=philsimon.com).) LC/NC has arrived in earnest, and it's *already* [kind of a big deal](https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2021-02-15-gartner-forecasts-worldwide-low-code-development-technologies-market-to-grow-23-percent-in-2021?ref=philsimon.com).

![](https://media3.giphy.com/media/qeCKyofbKetggOnOv5/giphy.gif?cid=790b761197be1648738a46aaab56aa25dcc8034ae5d3868b&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)

After writing the book, I know now why.

## Simon Says

Today's LC/NC tools are an order of magnitude more powerful, extensible, user-friendly, and affordable than their predecessors. All sorts of organizations are already putting them to good use. I think that you'll find the case studies in *Low-Code/No-Code* particularly instructive.

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