No-Code 2025 Finale: Xano vs N8N, OpenAI App Store & The Rise of Agents

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All right, final show for the year. What do we got today? So, we got Zeno meets Nadn. Nadn, Zapier, and make slowly pivot to become agentic operating systems. Cloud NM for cloud code, but could we use it for more? And then, OpenAI, they have an app store. I don't want to miss this App Store moment again like I did with the iPhone. So, maybe it's something I'll look into. And of course, his other no code news. Welcome to the last show of the year for no code news. Enjoy. The first news article is YouTube playables. Where does this fit in the no code? Where does this bit fit in this news? This is part of the whole moment in time where we can create things we couldn't do before. Whether it's slop or not, we'll leave that up to people to argue or discuss. But I have some ideas for games that would be fun to to make a reality. So, I'm happy that YouTube made these playables and um I tried to sign up, but I guess I have to wait or maybe I'm in now and I got to go look. I will be making a game or two there. Zano and Naden, the two meet. It's a good video. I'll have a link down below. I don't know when I would use them both. In this video, he uses the Nan agent to then talk to uh Zano and then they use an agent over there. The big win there was the database integration, which is all cool. All this stuff is really neat. It'd be interesting to see why I'd want to use both. And I hope in early 2026 to make part of how I build series me comparing the two. I really do enjoy that N& is open source, but I really am curious about Zano. The next news article, developers can now submit apps to Chat GPT. It's cool. I still regret to this day missing out on the iOS app craze. ChatGpt is really pushing the app integration. So you could just basically say, "Hey, play my Apple Music, play my Spotify, do this particular thing." So, we'll see how this pans out. All right, quick ad break for my 2026 membership series. 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By the end of that track, you're just going to understand how to build not just with AI, but with no code tools. Then of course during the week, I'm just going to keep an eye on what's trending and what's interesting to me and I'll cover those topics as well. So these are four track 2026. If you join, you'll be in you'll do the live lessons with me. You'll get more support and you'll help support the channel. Looking forward to 2026. Thank you. All right. Thanks for watching that. All right. The next article or news thing I want to that that came to my news feed is Sim Theory. So I'll have a link below. Sim Theory, I hear these guys, they have a podcast who work there. They really know what they're doing. They really have a sense of things because they're working on it for real every day with MCPs and practical applications of AI, not just theoretical. And sim theory could be for me the answer where I can store context more easily versus projects in chatbt or claude or I don't even think Gemini has it. I've tried Manis. Manis is good. So I'm going to give Sim theory a try. So I'm just sharing that here as a platform that might help to do more agentic or process heavy automations with AI. It's going to be interesting to see. The big win might be just the context. the fact that I have a place that stores context in a way that it doesn't have limitations or like this feeling of not done well like with OpenAI. All right, the next news article is Zapier. They're sponsor times, but I'm always really honest with everything I'll say here and they just they continue to push agent dashboards, agent hubs and more agent workflows. In this case, it's a template type system where you can get going and have your agentic Jira, your agentic code reviews in other just normal things companies need to remove some of the grunt work we all have many years of doing. Many developers I've known have spent most of their day just doing code reviews. If they could train an AI system to do it for them, and it's not impossible, then they could save a bunch of time and there's so much value here. So when platforms like uh Zapier or any of these are creating these out of the off-the-shelf solutions, it's really worth thinking about. All right. Now for videos I like this week. Again, that Zeno and N8M1, it's worth a watch. If anything, you get a sense of what Zano can do and then you start to see where these the ven diagram of these two overlap. It's going to be really interesting to see where they don't overlap, especially Naden already wins in the open source self-hosting, but it'd be interesting to see really. The next video that caught my attention is Spaceport. This is he does great videos here and it's local AI facts 2.0 hardware deep dive. Good video if you're interested in this stuff and he just goes through a bunch of the common questions people have about this stuff. So worth a watch, worth a listen and he's got a great channel. Just really fun stuff. Another channel that comes across my radar is XCreate. He seems to be having a really good time and this is Zage Turbo. So, just how to run these image generation tools on your Mac and just see what you can do with them, how fast they are, and how you can maybe push them a little bit more. Good channel. Another one to keep an eye on. Then there's a video I did. I'll have a link to that as well. This is onis. Now, I go over, which is like an open-source software, not open source hardware that will run on prim AI and hosting solutions in a really nice way. They just did a wonderful job. But by the end of the video, I have one reservation and I really think it's worth a listen. So give the video a watch, get a sense of what this product can do for you if you want to run your own onrem home office, whatever solution, and then just consider the what you're getting into. Trending repos and hugging face news. Couga is an IBM agent. And again, I didn't get a lot of chance to look at this one, but it looks like there's a lot of thought put into it. It has it has a way to maybe escape the endless code. Some of these platforms have such opinionated frameworks that the AI can put the code out there in a way that it's going to be good or not good but work. So in this case, it's just how do you make these enterprise agents so that they know the context of the enterprise and the task of the enterprise and stay on task. Any of these frameworks or platforms could be a good win for a company that's trying to figure out how to agentify some of their work without the BS of the word agentic, but mostly like how to really make these things do tasks. I'll cover some of those as you saw in the video with my ad. Next, AI draw- another GitHub repo that looks interesting as it does charts, diagrams, and again just look at this one from the sense of how it's done. It has a chat on the and then the output on the left. And this is the AG UI framework. Copilot kit talks a lot about this and how you can build things in a way that you're not coding the UI by hand as much as letting JSON populate the UI with forms and tables and diagrams so you have a consistent output from the chat. It's a great it's an interesting way to start thinking about building for this agentic I would say agentic for a more a AI or chat driven user experience. Sim AI this keeps coming across my radar. I just got to get time to work on this one. Like I said with Zano, this would be a great comparison to NAN and a video in and of itself. I am always looking to do more of these, but I have to keep upping my sponsor ad game so I can support me doing these. As those come in though, I will be doing SIM AI because it is such a it looks really interesting and any product that's newer than N8N has a chance to learn from all the mistakes N8 might have made. So hopefully they are taking it to the next level. So SIM.AI AI different than the sim theory one I mentioned earlier. The next one and last one is claude mem. So this is for claude code but remember sometimes and I mentioned this earlier too like I just want context. I want to go to the prompt. I want to go to a terminal. I want to go to not even a terminal. I want to go to something and I can say hey help me with this. And we've talked about it before. It's all right here. All the images and files and context is so key. So I would see this as a tool I can use with cloud code in a way that is just not about code and it's about bringing memory and context to cloud code in a way that's just done better than throwing a whole bunch of words at it and folders and files and doing it in a way that seems to be maybe a framework around how to give AI more long-term context and memory. So I'm going to be checking that one out as well. I have a whole as you saw in the ad a whole series on building onrem work. I wonder if this could be better than rag or play a different role than rag for the AI part of things. I have to just figure it out honestly. So that's Claude mem. All right. All right. That's a wrap for 2025. I will do a lot more next year with this topic no code. And it really is a big changer for me. It's been a year of no code and I don't know if I done did any code this year actually where I had to go in and really do it other than a few vibe coding efforts but they were fun but again I just was drawn back to the softer or the dragable interfaces and then NM backends and whatnot. So a good year. I'm looking forward to next year to keep surfacing this news and staying on top of it and hoping giving people a sense of what's possible with no code and the benefits of AI in that context. Thanks for listening and join the subscribe level that helps a lot or join the member level that helps a lot or subscribe and comment and just help me to understand if there's something more you want to hear and give me your feedback. All right, thank you. I'll see you in 2026.