💵 The No-Code Fund, 🥾 Bootstrap Your No-Code MVP and 🤓 Makerpad Is Hiring!

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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

📆 Workshops & Events

🔁 Webinar - Zero to Sold with Arvid Kahl - Last week 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. Wednesday August 12th. Karen Serfaty joins us to explore how the Palabra workspace makes email automation simple. 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!

Office Hours - Thursday August 13th - Stop by and chat to the team about anything you need support with.

Ship it! - Friday August 14th - 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

Glide - Daily check-in app (Component)
Slack - Send company wide announcements (Component)
Parabola - Sort multiple columns (Component)
Webflow - Pricing component (Component)
Bubble - Application form block (Component)
Zapier - Post a random good morning GIF on Slack (Component)

Take a look at the Component Library!

🥊 Nocode Rumble Winners!
Back in March we followed the weekly updates of 8 makers from around the world, as they started to build their own products. Against all the odds, they succeeded and demonstrated the power of no-code tools. Voting has now taken place and the winners have been announced as voted for by the Nocode Rumble community. Read the Blog Post!

🌍 Webflow Virtual World Tour!

First event is August 18th! Take a virtual trip around the world with the Webflow team! The virtual world tour is 9 events in 8 different time zones during August & September. Network with design teams, founders, marketers, agency owners and Webflow experts. At all of the events, you'll learn something new and tickets are free! Get Tickets!

🏆Adalo Make-a-Clone Challenge!

Entries must be in by August 12th! Cloneable Kits are the newest feature to be released by Adalo. Makerpad is teaming up with Adalo for the Make-a-Clone challenge. Use your creativity to create a kit or template that can be cloned by others. Fill the Adalo community with well designed resources that are highly requested! Win Adalo subscriptions for the best kits & clones! Enter the Challenge Here!

💼 Jobs - Makerpad is hiring!

Makerpad started out as the resource for individuals to learn and build no-code solutions for their businesses. Today, we help thousands of no-coders learn to build projects and ship ideas faster thanks to the support of our content and community. If joining the Makerpad team interests you, take a look at our current roles!

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

🤖 Community Activity

🥳 Projects

NoCode Notion - Templates, tools and guides to build micro-startups in Notion, created by Brett Chang
Landing Page Planning - A video on planning before designing your next landing page, created by Romy Misra
Product Management Inspirations - Inspirational quotes and questions gathered from product managers, created by Büşra Coşkuner
The August Bradley Collection - A checklist collection of useful Notion videos from August Bradley, created by Hari

Add your project to the Community Showcase!

👋 Member Introductions

Olivier Michel - Founder of Ancileo, recently joined the community
Preet Singh - From Toronto, founder of 2 design communities and organizer of conferences.

🤔 Members Ask

Sam is looking how to automate Figma screenshots and links?
Any wants to know has anyone created an invite-only community?
The Creating Value founder asked how to sync an Outlook calendar with Google?
Irma asks how to send a form out with a pre-filled email address?

🎙️Makerpad Podcast

Episode #27: Greg Isenberg - Late Checkout

Greg is an entrepreneur and VC currently running Late Checkout, a startup studio/agency trying to create startups by focusing on un-bundling Reddit. He previously founded Islands (sold to WeWork). In this episode, Ben and Greg discuss:

Community vs. audience, experimentation using no-code and the Studio model for building and launching products.

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

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 If you're looking for:

🔥Feedback on a project
🧐 Need help with a specific problem
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Wanting to connect with other members for accountability

👉 Apply for Pro Membership to get access!

👉 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!

Apply to join!

Cheers,

Ben ✌️& the Makerpad team 😍

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