How No-Code Tools Are Empowering Startups to Build MVPs Faster

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Varun Bhardwaj

26 Mar 2025 — 4 min read

Rahul Murthi, Acies, How No-Code Tools Are Empowering Startups to Build MVPs Faster

This article has been contributed by Mr. Rahul Murthi, Head - Revolution Pre-sales, Acies.

They say time is money, and in 2025, it cannot be more relevant. As we have observed with the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the artificial intelligence (AI) space, startups in this space survive and perish in a matter of months if they do not provide the best and most useful LLMs to attract enterprise and individual customer interests.

Startup founders are undergoing tremendous pressure when it comes to converting their idea into a viable technology-enabled product or service and then into an enterprise. These pressures are related to:

Selecting and maintaining the technology stack

Non-technical founders are reliant on their CTO or technology team for the right technology stack for building their product or technology-enabled services. However, most do not factor in how their stack can be future-proofed to rapid advancements in technology. Further most also do not assess the cost of development, deployment and maintenance, which creates sudden liquidity pressures.

Building a developer base

Startup founders require sufficient liquidity to hire development personnel who continue to be expensive given the depleting availability of good and versatile developers. This requires founders to constantly sell their idea and their product to investors at the cost of their equity to have this liquidity cushion available to hire developers.

Speed and time to market

Surviving without a large or sustainable market share in any technology-focused marketplace is extremely difficult for any product and startup today. Customers and investors alike are attracted to a product or startup if they have the best-in-class minimum viable product (MVP) that objectively outshines others or are operating in a market that with a relatively untapped large TAM (total addressable market) where market consolidation is yet to commence.

The No-Code solution

No-code platforms and tools today empower anyone (including non-technical individuals) to build their MVP with minimal to no need for writing any code. MVPs can be built using the technology stack already provided by such tools and no-code platforms, where the maintenance of such a stack is at the hands of the provider of these no-code platforms or tools for a small fee.

Today, most no-code platforms and tools provide users with a visual drag-and-drop interface and ready-to-use templates to select and turn ideas into a viable technology product. Additionally, they are able to test and check their product prior to going live and quickly make the necessary changes in a matter of minutes where any issues are observed.

While the initial wave of a no-code approach emerged from website builders, today’s no-code tools and platforms provide the entire suite of offerings, which include cloud hosting, database utilization, API integrations, computation and dashboarding and more. As a result, startup founders can select any no-code platform offering all these or a bunch of no-code tools that talk to each other, for building their MVP.

In fact, a lot of large enterprises today also use no-code platforms and tools as an alternative to their in-house bespoke developed application. As per Gartner’s projections, by 2025-26, around 70% of new applications will be developed by enterprises using no-code or low-code technologies.

Benefits for startups and founders

In addition to removing the need for coding, no-code platforms and tools provide significant benefits and opportunities for startups. Here are some of the key benefits that startups realize when adopting no-code platforms or tools for building their MVP:

Removing the stress on the technology stack reliance:

The reliance on maintaining and upgrading the technology stack now rests in the hands of the providers of the no-code tools and platforms, and most no-code platforms and tools are tuned to bring the best technologies available in the market to serve their customers

Removing the stress on the developer base:

With no-code platforms and tools providing a visual drag-and-drop interface which converts into code automatically, founders can look forward to a small base of developers and non-developers too for building their MVP, which allows for a liquidity cushion which can be invested into having a good sales team.

Reduced time to market:

Today, most website builders provide the capability of creating and hosting a new website within a day, even in minutes, with the help of AI. Similarly, no-code tools and platforms reduce the time for building an MVP significantly, so as to give the startup the opportunity to compete in the market. Feedback from customers in terms of new features or new sub-products can be quickly built and shipped through the no-code approach, which further enhances customer loyalty.

More focus on strategy and innovation for the founders:

With the above benefits, entrepreneurs and founders of startups can spend more time on analysing market trends and re-assessing their business strategy and innovative ideas to make their business and products better than they currently are to attract more customers, which gives further attraction to investors of such startups to invest more.