🥊 The 30 Day Challenge, with judges Ryan Hoover, Brianne Kimmel and others!

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🥊 The T30 Challenge

During September we'll be running the latest Makerpad challenge!
Build whatever you want using no-code in 30 days!

Some of the confirmed judges are:

Shaan Puri - Host, My First Million
Sahil Lavingia - Founder, Gumroad
Brianne Kimmel - Investor, Worklife
Ryan Hoover - Founder, Product Hunt
Mubashar Iqbal - Top PH Maker
Anne-Laure Le Cunff - Founder, Ness Labs
Pieter Levels - Founder, Nomad List

Present your no-code project to the judging panel and win an iPad Pro!

Enter The T30 Challenge!


📺 Palabra Tutorials

🤖 Easy email marketing automations (Tutorial)
🦾 Marketing automation with Palabra, Bubble & Segment (Tutorial)
🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏽 Automate emails to new subscribers using Google Forms & Palabra (Tutorial)
☑️ Send a confirmation email on completion of a Webflow form (Tutorial)
📤 Send emails from Zapier to get analytics with Palabra (Tutorial)

📆 Workshops & Events

🆕 Building Interactive, Visual Dashboards With Causal - Part 1. Monday August 24th. We'll be looking into what Causal is, how it is used and how to build models and dashboards to help you make sense of your data. Register Here!

🆕 How Investors Are Thinking About The No-Code Space. Wednesday August 26th. In this workshop, we're joined by Pascal Levy-Garboua of Long Journey VC to talk about how investors are looking at the no-code space.
Register Here!

🆕 Building Real Business Solutions for your Startup: With Airtable and Hubspot. Thursday August 27th. Come join us live as we learn how Cottage uses Airtable and Hubspot to deliver their services. David Peterson from Airtable will show us behind the scenes on building solutions. Register Here!

🆕 Learn How To Build Epic Web Experiences For Products & Startups. Monday August 31st. In this workshop we will be joined by John D Saunders, founder of 5 Four Digital, BlackIllustrations.com, Illustrator Hub and Black Wallet. We'll dive into how John thinks about Building Digital Products. Working with startups and developing side-projects. Register Here!

🔁 No Code, No Funding, No Problem. How To Bootstrap a Minimum Viable Product. Tyler Tringas, Founder of Earnest Capital joined us to dive into how to build and validate products without needing money or coding knowledge. Watch Replay!

🔁 Learn Webflow Fundamentals and Shortcuts with Mackenzie Child. We were joined by the wizard of Webflow, Mackenzie Child. We went into some of the fundamentals of the most powerful modern website builder to teach you how to build your sites from the ground up correctly. Watch Replay!

🔁 Learn Email Automation Superpowers With Palabra. Karen Serfaty joined us to explore how the Palabra workspace makes email automation simple. Watch Replay!

See all upcoming events on our Calendar.

⚙️ New Components

Slack - Approve travel requests (Component)
Bubble - To-do list block (Component)
Parabola - Process & transform Bubble data (Component)
Glide - Medical Centre app (Component)
Webflow - Biznus retail template (Component)

Take a look at the Component Library!


🤖 Community Activity

🥳 Projects

A Process For App Building - A 6-step design process to help get started when building an app, created by Sean Tierney
Webflow Landing Page - A tutorial on building a webflow site in 30 minutes, created by Romy Misra
FyreNation - An app for EDM festival and music lovers, created by Francisco C
Extracting Data with Automatio.co - A video on how to get data out of tools without using an API, created by Stefan Smiljkovic
DEI for Startups - A text message course for startups, on diversity, equity & inclusion, created by Chris Lally
Pluhg! - Connect and recommend people without sharing contact details, created by Manan Mehta

Add your project to the Community Showcase!

👋 Member Introductions

Jared Robin - Co-Founder of RevGenius, currently building a community
Dustin Jaacks - Co-Founder of Niro, building the next generation of web forms.
Zachary King - From Melbourne, getting started with no-code, starting to use Stripe & Memberstack

🤔 Members Ask

Chris asks which tool is best to build a Trello clone in?
Stefan wants to know what are the downsides to using Webflow for a blog?
Ali is interested in how to build a Cameo clone?
Zachary is looking how to schedule zaps on certain days based on a date field?
Kevin asks how to build a comparison page in Webflow?
Robert would like to discover how to extract tweets into Airtable?

Ask your questions here!


🎙️Makerpad Podcast

Episode #30: Ankit Gordhandas - CEO of Intersect Labs

Ankit Gordhandas is the founder and CEO of Intersect Labs. Intersect Labs offers services that enable intelligent decisions involving machine learning from spreadsheet data in 3 clicks. Intersect Labs started with the simple idea that anyone who wants to make accurate predictions should be able to do it themselves.

In this episode, Ben and Ankit discuss...

- The convergence of no-code and data science
- Is data science just for big companies, or for startups?
- Using data as a non-technical person
- Using Intersect to predict, analyze and forecast with your data.

Find out more & subscribe via: Makerpad.co/podcast If you like our episodes, a review would be really helpful! 🙏


💵 Makerpad No-Code Fund

In conjunction with Makerpad, Ben Tossell is raising a small fund to invest in the no-code ecosystem. It's a rolling fund on the AngelList platform. If you're interested in being a part of this please register your details here - The No-Code Fund


👉 Memberships

Every Friday we send up to 30 invites to people who've applied for Makerpad membership.

We are giving each signup access to 1-1 video onboarding with our team to help them straight away, as well as all the other Pro benefits of course!

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Ben ✌️& the Makerpad team 😍


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