🦄 How To Find a Problem To Work On + 💯 Finding Your First 100 Customers

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⚔️ The T30 Challenge

The first week of the T30 Challenge is nearly done and we have been blown away by the fantastic ideas and projects that people are already building and collaborating on. With over 700 participants signed up to participate, it has had an incredible response, with an exceptional line up of judges and lots of informative webinars to help you each week.

Our Kick-Off session and first challenge workshop took place last week and the replays are now available to Challenge Members! Three more Challenge Workshops are coming this week!

It's still not too late to register for the T30 Challenge. All projects must be submitted by the 28th September in time for the community voting. The top projects as voted for by the community will then present to our panel of judges and winners will be announced on October 4th.

To be in with a chance to win, Register Here to join the T30 Challenge!

📺 New Tutorial

🧊 Develop a custom CRM using 8base and Retool (Tutorial)
8base put together this epic tutorial on developing a custom CRM using Retool + 8base. Two Makerpad partners together in one, building a whole front-end & back-end without writing any code 😍

View all our 200+ Tutorials here! Makerpad.co/Tutorials

📆 Workshops & Events

🆕 T30 Challenge Workshop - How to find a problem to work on, with Mubashar Iqbal. Tuesday September 8th. Challenge judge and serial maker, Mubashar Iqbal will be talking about how to find a problem to work on, avoiding shiny object syndrome and leveraging no-code tools. Register Here!

🆕 T30 Challenge Workshop - Finding your first 100 customers, with Arvid Kahl. Wednesday September 9th. Arvid Kahl will be talking about everything bootstrapping and building products. How to find your first 100 users, building and iterating on your MVP and why choose bootstrapping? Register Here!

🆕 T30 Challenge Workshop - Researching and Identifying Trends, with Dru Riley. Monday September 14th. In this challenge workshop we're joined by judge and founder of Trends.vc, Dru Riley. How to research and identify trends, building a community around a product and finding your first users. Register Here!

🔁 Makerpad T30 Challenge - Kick-off Session. Take a look at the kick-off session for the Makerpad T30 Challenge! We talked about: the T30 Challenge rules and judges. Plus some build ideas and winning criteria. Challenge Members: Watch Replay!

🔁 T30 Challenge Workshop - Building Community and Organising Projects, with Khe Hy. Notion Pro and founder of Rad Reads, Khe Hy talked about building projects, organising work, leveraging no-code tools and creating SOPs. Challenge Members: Watch Replay!

🔁 No-Code Predictive Analytics, with Intersect Labs. Ankit Gordhandas, CEO and Founder of no-code predictive analytics tool Intersect Labs talked about the core functionality of the product, how to bring machine learning into your business and building models. Pro Members: Watch Replay!

See all upcoming events on our Calendar.

⚙️ New Components

Slack - Get Google Analytics Reports (Component)
Webflow - 3D Cloth Slideshow (Component)
Parabola - Use APIs to automate a newsletter (Component)
Airtable - Forecasting + Machine Learning (Component)
Bubble - Custom elements block (Component)
Glide - Create your own medical practice app (Component)

Take a look at the Component Library!

🤖 Community Activity

🥳 Projects

Vibecity - Created by Parth Pratik "A live platform where travellers can explore their favourite destinations by interacting with locals, who take them through their cities & help them learn about their culture, food, places to visit & their heritage. It's like travelling & connecting with creators & explorers without leaving your home."

Sponsor & Hire Buttons - Created by Ben Tossell. "Introducing Sponsor & Hire buttons on Makerpad profiles. You can add third-party links to get financial contributions and add your hiring links, like Buy Me A Coffee links and Calendly links"

Webflow Hosting Video - Created by Romy Misra. "I love Webflow but it can get pretty expensive for side projects. I'm sharing my hack on how you can get free hosting for your Webflow projects which are static. It does involve a few lines of code - it's simple and anyone can do it, even if you have never coded before."

Zapevs - Created by Kevin. "This week I built a site showcasing hundreds of the most popular electric vehicles around the world. Would love to hear feedback!"

Notion Presentation Breakdown - Created by Tem. "I do a lot of presentations and recently it occurred to me to make a public breakdown, guide or "visual companion" of a presentation I did for Techstars about Notion, on Notion (quite meta). It works rather great, so I made a free template out of it."

Add your project to the Community Showcase!

🧰 Tool Updates

Memberspace - "We just announced our integration with Castos. You can now quickly and easily add a private podcast to your membership. This can be a great way to improve your membership offering and grow revenue. Our integration with Castos makes setting up a private podcast really easy: Create a private podcast on Castos, Integrate with MemberSpace in 2 minutes. Manage all subscribers, members, payments & plans from the convenience of your MemberSpace backend!"

Causal - "We've started selecting a model each week to share on Twitter and our product updates. Here are some interesting ones from the past weeks, POKT Network economic model, Founder break-even calculator, Tesla 3-statement model. We'd love to see some submissions from the Makerpad community! We're also sending stash to whoever's model we select :)"

8base - "5 reasons why developers are choosing 8base over Firebase"

🎙️Makerpad Podcast

Episode #32: Arisa Amano, Bob Remeika - Internal.io

Arisa and Bob are the co-founders of Internal, an internal tools platform that allows anyone to create without code.

In this episode Ben, Bob and Arisa discuss:

- Why Internal helps solve a crucial problem that Bob and Arisa saw during their time at Zenefits.
- Why team tools don't typically get as much love, and how Internal can help.
- How no-code lends itself to help you understand more technical aspects of work.

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

⚡ The IO Summit 2020
Accelerate your learning and expand your network at The New Innovators Summit - 2020. A virtual summit for today's leaders, creators, innovators and entrepreneurs, with an amazing line up of speakers. Running Oct 20th - 22nd 2020. Register for Tickets!

💵 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 Pro membership.

Makerpad Pro membership is $600 for lifetime access and it includes:

• Full access to all 200+ tutorials
• Bootcamps, Live Workshops & recordings.
• Entry to all Challenges and the private community
• 1-1 video on-boarding with the Makerpad team
• Weekly video office-hours & community events
• $50k+ of discounts on tools including $2k Airtable credits, 6 months free Typeform, Adalo, Memberstack, Bubble and more.

👉 Apply for Pro Membership!

Cheers,

Ben ✌️ & the Makerpad team 😍

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