I’m shoreside in South Dakota, working logistics for a small offshore supply outfit, and I’ve been asked to look into replacing our spreadsheet-based crew rotation tracker. We don’t have a developer on staff, so the appeal of these AI app builder tools is obvious, but the whole thing makes me uneasy. Our schedules and certificates are sensitive, and I don’t know how these platforms handle data ownership or where things actually get hosted. I also worry about building something that only I can maintain if I move on from this role.
Has anyone here gone down this road for a shoreside tool? I’m curious whether you kept the data in-house or let the platform manage it, and whether the licensing side turned out simpler or messier than expected. Any practical pitfalls worth knowing before I pitch this to management?
Update after reading through Building a SaaS Product with AI Builders - the data hosting and ownership questions still feel unresolved for something holding crew certificates. I’m leaning toward asking management for a small trial first, but I’m not convinced it solves the maintainability worry if I leave.