You don’t need to be a developer to do this. I’ve seen people with zero coding background build multi-step workflows with drag and drop, and your exact scenario is really doable.
The thing about the no-code builder is that it handles the boring stuff—navigate to URL, click button, extract data, wait for something to load. Drag and drop handles that. You connect those blocks together visually, set your conditions, and boom, workflow.
Where it gets interesting is when you need something custom. That’s where the low-code part matters. But you don’t need to write a full script. You drop in a custom code block when you hit something the builder doesn’t have, write a few lines, and move on. It’s not write from scratch, it’s fill in the gap.
Your scenario—three sites, data collection, conditional logic, spreadsheet export—that’s basically the textbook use case. I’d say 80% lives in the visual builder and maybe 20% needs a light code touch if anything at all.
Try it on Latenode and build the first site’s automation entirely in the builder. You’ll feel the boundaries pretty quick. https://latenode.com