I read an article recently about how an organisation had recently rolled out six new apps in its fight against COVID-19.

At first glance, this appears impressive in showing how quickly they had created new services for their clients in a short period of time, but it raised a question: does this approach just encourage the proliferation of disparate systems that need to be maintained and supported?

Whilst recently applying a routine platform update to our clients' systems we were struck by the range of business areas that these applications support, and also that their ages varied from less than one year to sixteen years old.  Nonetheless, the update brought them all completely up to date in terms of their support for browser and UI standards, database support and security practices.

kinodb, our low code development platform, is used very productively by some business users, but it isn't specifically targeted at 'citizen developers’.