🏡​ Cottage Deep-Dive & Webflow Fundamentals Webinar tomorrow with 🦩 Mackenzie Child.

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🏡 Cottage Deep-Dive: How to manage, track and automate complex projects with Airtable and Hubspot

In this deep-dive Makerpad breaks down how you can use technology to manage and automate a complex and custom project management solution using Airtable and Hubspot.

The solution has been created for a real world need in a start-up called Cottage. Cottage is a platform that helps home-owners design, finance and build Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU) in the San Fransisco Bay area. People build ADU's to generate rental income, create an additional living space, and boost their home equity.

The solution covers everything from project management, managing meetings, sending out design surveys, questionnaires, on site surveys, creating task lists automatically, and then generating and sending contracts to the stakeholders. We go deep into the methods we used to automate the projects steps and workflows using Airtable & Hubspot supported by tools such as Zapier, X.ai, Gmail, Typeform, Slack and Pandadoc.

Take a look at the deep dive, recreate and rebuild similar business processes by following the tutorials.

📺 Tutorials

🔗 Connect Hubspot deals to Airtable (Tutorial)
🤖 Automate recurring interactions in your deal and project cycle (Tutorial)
📋 Pre-fill Airtable forms and link to existing records (Tutorial)
🗂️ Sync files across Airtable, Hubspot and Google Drive (Tutorial)
✍🏼 Generate pre-filled contracts in Hubspot, using PandaDoc (Tutorial)
✔️ Generate a task list for projects in Airtable (Tutorial)

📆 Workshops & Events

🆕 Learn Webflow Fundamentals and Shortcuts with Mackenzie Child. Monday August 17th. Tomorrow we'll be joined by the wizard of Webflow, Mackenzie Child. We'll be diving into some of the fundamentals of the most powerful modern website builder and teach you how to build your sites from the ground up correctly. Register Here!

🆕 No Code, No Funding, No Problem. How To Bootstrap a Minimum Viable Product. Wednesday August 19th. Tyler Tringas, Founder of Earnest Capital joins us to dive into how to build and validate products without needing money or coding knowledge. Register Here!

🆕 Building Real Business Solutions for your Startup: With Airtable and Hubspot. Thursday August 20th. 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!

🔁 Webinar - Zero to Sold with Arvid Kahl - Recently Arvid joined us for a webinar where we covered identifying a problem, finding first users, scaling and selling your SaaS business. Watch Replay!

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

Office Hours - Thursday August 20th - Stop by and chat to the team about anything you need support with.

Ship it! - Friday August 21st - Submit your latest project & show the community! Give feedback to other members on what they've made.

See all upcoming events on our Calendar.

⚙️ New Components

Airtable - Fetch the wikipedia summary for a keyword (Component)
Parabola - Enrich your CRM leads (Component)
Zapier - Get summary emails of new Airtable records (Component)
Slack - Use screen-sharing to solve problems collaboratively (Component)
Bubble - Side menu FAQ's block (Component)

Take a look at the Component Library!

🆕 Makerpad Updates

🎉 Passbase joins as a Makerpad Partner!

We're pleased to announce that Passbase has joined as our latest partner. Passbase is an identity verification, KYC and anti money-laundering solution that helps companies onboard users from over 190 countries and screen 6,000 government IDs in 14 languages. It can be integrated with no code at all, natively on web, mobile and can be added to checkout flows in a matter of seconds. The Passbase toolkit protects your product against fraud and helps your conversion rates too. Read about Passbase

🎉 Welcoming Niro as a Makerpad Partner!

We're thrilled to share that Niro is now a Makerpad partner. Niro lets you design interactive click flows to engage your customers and capture important information. Use over 20+ drag-and-drop building blocks to build upon your previous forms and turn them into conversational flows that create an amazing user-experience for your customers. Read about Niro

💼 Jobs

Tray.io - Product Manager - London. Apply here
Tray.io - Frontend Engineer - London. Apply here

Makerpad - Marketing Role - Remote - Part time to full-time. Apply here
Makerpad - Executive Assistant - Remote - Part-time to full-time. Apply here

Take a look at all jobs on our Makerpad.co/jobs page!

🤖 Community Activity

🥳 Projects

100+ No-Code Resources - A Trello board listing no-code tools, podcasts & newsletters, created by Mariam Hakobyan
T-Shirt Concept Store - A t-shirt store built using Glide apps, created by Varun Goel
Venture Threads - A curated list of the best VC twitter threads, created by Ziv Reichert
Dawn + Dusk - Twice daily newsletter for productivity and relaxation, created by Emily Veras
Codeless.how - Free videos on automating your business, created by Greg

Add your project to the Community Showcase!

👋 Member Introductions

Greg - Looking to contribute to the community and create some great automations!
Connor Leech - A software engineer, currently working with no-code tools like Airtable and Google Forms

🤔 Members Ask

Kevin is looking how to solve a bug that stops Webflow draft CMS items being published?
Dimitris wants to know which technical concepts do you struggle with?

Ask your questions here!

🎙️Makerpad Podcast

Episode #28: Sid Yadav - Co-Founder of Circle

Sid started Circle in October last year with two other co-founders, both ex-Teachable. Circle is the modern community platform for creators, and is used by Makerpad. Other creator communities on Circle include Pat Flynn, Tiago Forte, David Perell, and Anne-Laure Le Cunff.

In this conversation, Ben and Sid discuss...

- Committing to new features vs. keeping away from technical debt
- Using integrations to give your users super powers
- When do you know when it's time to launch your app?

Episode #29: Cottage Deep-Dive - Featuring David Peterson

How Cottage created a thriving startup with Hubspot and Airtable. In this episode we have David Peterson from Airtable on to discuss how Makerpad and Airtable created a custom solution for Cottage – a San Francisco based company that helps home-owners design, permit, and build Accessory Dwelling Units such as a guest house.

In this episode, Ben and David Discuss...

- Using Airtable for Project Management
- Airtable integrations and the process of building solutions for startups.
- More details on the process of solving real problems for freeing up time in organizations using no-code tools.

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

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💵 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

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