Drop your lessons and tips from your experience of working with no-code tools!
Bonus points if you suggest a tool that can be helpful with specific tasks.
Trying to build a searchable, filterable database, but getting stuck. I think Airtable will work for the backend, but don't know how to connect it to the front end.
Yep! I just taught some Delhi government school students how to use Glide. The govt has introduced Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum in schools now. The students I'm working with are building an app to find the nearest tailors.
I built several tools with no code. I love it because I can ship an idea in a few days and make it public. That's the best market validation ever!
I created:
- https://spreadtheworld.net - a database of 400+ places to post your startup (Made with airtable, flurly and Zapier)
- https://remoteFR.com, a job board with Table2Site and Airtable. Took me less than 2 days to build!
- http://m4m.so - A Marketing4Makers community. Made with Discord and Flurly. I'll add some knowledge base soon, it will be powered by Notion!
I also created a marketplace with Bubble to validate your ideas called IdeaHunt. But its a dead project
One of my fav no-code tools is Webflow: amazing community and great learning content (makes you laugh out loud kind of great: ).
Webflow is especially powerful with Flowbase (https://www.flowbase.co/).
I built multiple websites in the past months. Just released the newest one for Wonderpath: https://www.wonder-path.com/
The best way to learn is to start building. And my tip is to interact with the community: check out forums, post questions on Twitter. I believe we're still in the early days of no-code and early users can really help move these tools forward: share ideas, challenges, and any workarounds you discover.
We use Tally combined with other no-code tools to automate our own startup (a bit biased here as I'm a co-founder):
- We collect user feedback with Tally forms and automatically sync it to our Notion backlog
- Our help center and showcase page is built with Notion, and hosted plus customized with Super (https://help.tally.so)
- Personal website built with Tally (https://filipminev.com)
Why do we use no-code tools? Easy, fast, and budget-friendly!
Few websites including our own homepage (www.pensil.in) in webflow.
and few other service using webflow, zapier, airtable and memberstack.
But building regularly in bubble like social networking website (FB, LinkedIn, and Instagram), online course builder(udemy, coursera, skillshare etc), task management apps (trello and asana); and building more and more to launch something soon built on nocode.
However the learning process has been to "start with basic tutorial which are usually available on their website" and build something basic.. then begin with advance apps ... and the best thing to do is to join their community,.. they have been really helpful
Yes!! I used Typedream to build out www.atompay.me.
Used for: Building out a website / landing pages
Why Better? We wanted a web builder that was easy enough for anybody on the team to update and make changes fast. Our entire team uses Notion, so using Typedream was completely natural.
At Desking we've built most of our two apps using Bubble (https://desking.app/).
It's quite versatile to build with and we love that we haven't had to consider any of the underlying architecture.
It takes a few months to really learn how it works. Our apps are becoming more and more complex in their logic and sometimes we would like to be able to "peek under the hood" to see what exactly is going on. Especially working with external APIs can be frustrating.
We have had to move some parts of the logic outside of Bubble (to Azure) and probably will move away from Bubble as we grow.
I would definitely recommend checking it out! It does offer a lot more than Webflow when it comes to working with data and app logic.
@praatikainen We've been super impressed at the functionality capabilities of Bubble while working on our legal tech app .. The ability to rapidly iterate just can't be beat
launching our bubble + webflow ebook marketplace on jan 10. i'd say the biggest thing i learned about no code is try to pick one platform and stick to it? we had to do some pretty messy integrations between bubble and webflow that break in a lot of places and make for a less than perfect ux
Used to work for a company that built almost 100 websites on Webflow. A great tool for pixel-perfect web pages!
Also, some time ago I made myself a CV on Readymag, it was pretty easy to figure out and I did it really quickly. Though I heard from many people that it can get buggy...
Really want to try this one https://cargo.site/, heard it's pretty awesome and makes good automatic responsive design,
I made my personal website (https://almost.design) last year using blocs (https://blocsapp.com), a no code website builder based on bootstrap. Highly recommended if you plan on making a basic website.
Just starting out my career in design, this helped me learn the basics of web dev, which in turn helped me build this website (https://thursday.social) with complete ownership and control over my design.
Hey Sharath,
Built https://www.readsomethingfunny.com/ using entirely no code stack. Launched it on PH yesterday as well!
1. Front-end - Softr
2. Back-end - Airtable
No-code is the future of building products. Any no-code tool for building bots? (Especially Twitter bots)
It's probably the most common of no-code tools, but I rely heavily (probably a bit too heavily!) on Zapier for my premium newsletter. I opted to build my membership platform and integrate it with my ESP, instead of using a 'packaged product', and so Zapier is my best friend. It meant I could avoid the huge % commissions that most providers charge! P.s. you can see the end product at https://thechattymammoth.com
I might be a bit biased but I'm a big fan of no-code. Built my first landing page with Wix, used Airtable to build bases, Sheety to test a no-code backend, and a few others I can't remember now. Now working on a no-code tool of my own (www.databar.ai). :)
Yes. We've build our homepage with softr and will release our product on Monday which is build on Bubble+airtable+typeform and integrates with an AI engine and segment.
@stephi That's awesome! I've been checking out Softr and Pory as a frontend for an Airtable-oriented application we're looking to launch. It's neat to see such cool things being built on that tech
I've tried several tools but quickly understood that it's easier to learn to code than to build what I want combining scrappy standard out-of-the-box blocks from the no-code tools.
It's almost impossible to personalize and finetune most of these blocks exactly the way you want, and you have to learn very specific settings that each no-code platform uses. Unlike code, these skills are non-transferrable.
Once you learn at least one language, you can easily add new languages to your stack - they use similar logic, that is clear and straightforward. In a way, it is beautiful, like math. And they also have a big online community, where you can find answers to your questions and even chunks of code that you just need to copy and paste. Try that with the no-code tools: once you need something a bit different from the standard solution - well, you're out of luck)
No code is great if you have something simple or very standard that you need to mock up quickly.
I often use webflow to find or create new web page layouts quickly, however I would never build my real website here, and I think this would apply across many - 1) not customisable enough (DB options etc) 2) cost creep, lets face it if you're here you really care about cost 3) you are stuck in that tool and it will hinder your innovation ultimately.
@davob Or split into different abstraction layers so you reduce risks when scaling. Also could use opensource platforms. As in: if you have your own database on posgres use then nocoDB for airtable-like platform and get some APis easily. Then Use a no-code / low-code platform for front end (webflow , bubble, appgyver, draftbit...depending on use case).
When you get more user, see you're stressing the servers & cost, then move the front end into a fully coded self-hosted solution. You'll already have a lot available and probably would cut your front end dev cost by 50% anyway. what do you think?
I'm pretty new to the no-code game since I love to code things. However, sometimes it's just so much easier and less time consuming to use no-code tools.
A good example for this are landing pages: each time you work on a new product, you need a landing page. But it's so time consuming to build a fast, converting and great looking landing page.
So I'm now using https://fabulous.so to build landing pages for all my projects. (I'm the creator of fabulous.so, since I wanted to solve this exact problem :p).
I'm excited to hear which no-code you are using!
Summer Bod 2020