[HN Gopher] Expanding access to Opal, our no-code AI mini-app bu...
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Expanding access to Opal, our no-code AI mini-app builder
Author : simonpure
Score : 27 points
Date : 2025-10-08 19:56 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| DataDaemon wrote:
| living in the EU feels like living in the Stone Age
| sjbr wrote:
| At least you are getting chat control.
| dmitrygr wrote:
| Nobody in the stone age voted to live in the stone age,
| ignoring all warnings that their vote would produce a stone
| age.
| simonjgreen wrote:
| Or like there is an expectation companies will treat your
| information with respect and act with integrity. It is
| unfortunate that that causes companies to have to think for
| longer about how they will act before they do.
| nicce wrote:
| OpenAI tried without real regulation and we see how that
| turned out.
| dmitrygr wrote:
| > It is unfortunate that that causes companies to have to
| think for longer
|
| It is basic market dynamics that the harder you make it to
| enter a market, the more reluctant entrants will be. Whether
| the regulation that makes market entry more difficult is
| "good" or "bad" is simply irrelevant.
| gundmc wrote:
| Seems like cool framework, but I'm bothered by the example image
| around having AI research and generate a blog post. This is
| exactly the sort of thing I don't want.
| barbazoo wrote:
| [flagged]
| dang wrote:
| Most of us probably agree, but can you please not post
| unsubstantive comments to HN? We want _curious_ conversation
| here.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| ngruhn wrote:
| Name one successful no-code solution. Not snark. I'm serious.
| Give me examples. In my experience, these no-code tools either
| die being too simple or live long enough to be patched into fully
| fledged visual programming languages. At which point the promised
| simplicity is gone. Idk, maybe with AI it's different.
| mjr00 wrote:
| Really depends on the scope of the solution; a lot of web
| development has gone no-code through the use of frameworks and
| platforms like Wix, Unbounce, Squarespace, Shopify, Gumroad,
| etc. Like it's crazy to think, but 15 years ago if you were a
| person with a single widget you wanted to sell over the
| internet (even a digital widget with no shipping logistics!) it
| was a big hassle that involved a lot of programming and hooking
| up various APIs. Now you can get a full e-commerce site with
| analytics and payments integrated fairly easily with basically
| no technical knowledge.
|
| The counter-argument is that these tools are too narrowly
| scoped, but I think that's exactly what made them successful;
| their "no-code" tools provided a solution for a common problem.
|
| Ultimately I agree with what you're getting at. There's never
| been a successful no-code, or even low-code, replacement for
| general purpose programming, and there never will be.
| ngruhn wrote:
| Fair enough. Those website builders have their place. I'm
| rather thinking of something like NodeRed where you specify
| control flow. But with boxes and arrows instead of code.
| Which is also what this Google product seems to do.
| blast wrote:
| Replit
| holografix wrote:
| Unreal Engine's Blueprints
| shmoogy wrote:
| Node Red, N8N, and Zapier I think are the biggest ones. I think
| the cool idea of AI implemented no code is, in theory, you can
| add a new node - tell the AI what to do, and it can build
| custom logic to do whatever it is that you want with the input.
|
| Thats probably verging on too high of a complexity for end
| users, but if you can obfuscate the black box and have it work
| well enough, it can definitely be big.
| Onavo wrote:
| What happened to Microsoft's low code AI builder?
|
| https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/13/microsoft-acquires-lobe-a-...
| holografix wrote:
| What about jules.google.com ? Are these competing products?
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