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⚔️ The T30 Challenge
The T30 Challenge is now entering its final week!
Our upcoming Challenge Workshop on Wednesday with Avni Patel Thompson will be ideal for those of you currently prioritising features for the first version of your project.
Want to build & launch something in just a 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!
📺 Involve.me Tutorials
🤔 What is Involve.me? (Tutorial)
🔢 Making a calculator (Tutorial)
💲 Calculating custom prices (Tutorial)
💵 Collecting payments (Tutorial)
🤑 Collecting recurring payments (Tutorial)
View all of our 200+ Tutorials here! Makerpad.co/Tutorials
📆 Workshops & Events
🆕 Building Models for Venture Stage Companies Monday September 21st. We'll explore how venture stage (or mature bootstrapped) companies can leverage the power of Causal to make better business decisions. Covering why models are useful for decision-making, how to model a business using Causal and how to track a model's performance against actual data, plus scenario planning. Register Here!
🆕 How Modern Village is Building a New Operating System For Parents, with Avni Patel Thompson. Wednesday September 23rd. In this Challenge workshop we're joined by Avni Patel Thompson to talk all things product building and user research. We discover how to find the pain points of your ideal customers, building the first version of your product, prioritising features and finding an inspiring problem to work on. Register Here!
🔁 T30 Challenge Workshop - Researching and Identifying Trends, with Dru Riley. In this challenge workshop we were joined by challenge judge and founder of Trends.vc, Dru Riley. We talked about how to research and identify trends, building a community around a product and finding your first users. Challenge Members: Watch Replay!
🔁 T30 Challenge Workshop - Makerpad Community Meetup. Julie Gauthier talked about project progress with some of our challenge members. Challenge Members: Watch Replay!
🔁 T30 Challenge Workshop - Finding your first 100 customers, with Arvid Kahl. Arvid Kahl talked about bootstrapping and building products. How to find your first 100 users, building and iterating on your MVP and why choose bootstrapping? Challenge Members: Watch Replay!
🔁 T30 Challenge Workshop - How to find a problem to work on, with Mubashar Iqbal. Challenge judge and serial maker, Mubashar Iqbal talked about how to find a problem to work on, avoiding shiny object syndrome and leveraging no-code tools. Challenge Members: Watch Replay!
See all upcoming events on our Calendar.
⚙️ New Components
Parabola - Analyse your Squarespace orders (Component)
Slack - Daily reminder to post a standup (Component)
Webflow - Interactive SVG morph (Component)
Airtable - Set default values (Component)
Glide - Create your own conference app (Component)
Take a look at the Component Library!
🆕 Makerpad Updates
🎉 Involve.me is now a Makerpad Partner!
We’re thrilled to share that Involve.me is now a Makerpad partner. Involve.me allows you to create interactive content that’s perfectly tailored to your brand. It provides you with powerful tools for improving your user and customer engagement. Involve.me lets you create product quizzes, design sales funnels, collect feedback and accept online payments. All of the data Involve.me collects can be passed to all of the tools you already use, through their integrations for an even more optimized workflow. Read the blog post!
🎉 Announcing Outseta as a Makerpad Partner!
We’re excited to announce that Outseta has joined as a Makerpad partner. Outseta gives you all the tools you need to run a recurring revenue start-up. It integrates with any SaaS product or website with or without code. Outseta has a full suite of tools that are specifically designed for your business model. Having Authentication, Billing, Helpdesk, Email and CRM all within the same tool combines many other products and provides a more robust solution that’s made to work together. Outseta can bring fantastic value to your recurring revenue business. Read the blog post!
🎉 Coinfu Joins a Makerpad Partner!
We’re happy to share that Coinfu is now a Makerpad partner. Coinfu provides workflow automation for cryptocurrency traders and investors. Coinfu will check trading conditions on a regular basis to free you up from repetitive actions. Their tools can help you to create automated price alerts and save your trades to a journal or spreadsheet for further analysis. It also integrates with the most common cryptocurrency platforms like Coinbase Pro, Bitstamp, Binance and others to deliver data to you as notifications, tweets and emails. Read the blog post!
💼 Jobs
No-Code Prototyper - Healthcare - Remote
Zapier Expert - Marketing - Remote
To see all job postings and to apply - visit Makerpad.co/jobs
🤖 Community Activity
🥳 Projects
WhatFeatures - Created by James Simpson. "The idea is to allow founders to create a showcase of potential upcoming features for their products and share with users. Users upvote their favourite and receive a reward (discount voucher / content etc.) for their insight. The showcases with the most engagement are top of the homepage so will get even more engagement and new users. I've created it entirely in bubble - my first bubble project! You should now be able to go on and create your own showcase. Please let me know what you think - any feedback much appreciated. Thanks"
HappyOrNot - Created by Curtis. "I just launched my first Adalo PWA called 😸 Happy or Not 😾. Find out if your cat is happy or not by uploading a picture. Share or download the result. Sign up to have all of your images saved. This is a client project, not a personal one. Let me know what you think and most importantly how your cat is feeling!"
Goalio - Created by Emily Veras. "I have been building Goalio for the T30 Challenge; Goalio is a personalized positive reinforcement system that helps people complete their goals by providing rewards and a like-minded community. I am focusing on the fitness category at the moment. I have had some fantastic feedback from the no-code community and would love to be able to chat further with anyone who has any additional insights or feedback"
Cofffee - Created by Travis Boatright - "The idea of this app is to create a social community around speciality coffee. People can share and find coffee through the explore tab. Also they can build out their own library with their own posts and their favorites. Right now I like the idea of being able to find coffee, but also want to provide tools and guides for better brewing at home. I have a pour over ratio tool where the user can input how much coffee they are making and find how much water to use to brew at a certain ratio."
Virtual Mojitos - Created by Felix - "I build one small project and practise a new no-code tool every weekend. This week I built an interactive flow (aka Instagram stories page) on Faraday. Super interesting tool to help to convert customers and improve engagement, gather leads, and drive growth."
Notionware - Created by Robert Andrews - "Humbly announcing Notionware - t-shirts, mugs and more for Notion lovers. Notionware began when, during lockdown, I began trying to connect up my thinking and my life using Notion. That notion spilled out of the screen as I began imagining a wearable product as personal to me as my Notion boards are."
Add your project to the Community Showcase!
🧰 Tool Updates
Airtable - "Airtable recently had a big announcement - the launch of Airtable Apps, Marketplace, Automations & Sync"
Glide - "What are the most interesting things you've seen built with Glide?"
8Base - "SaaS app development for non-technical founders"
Zapier - "Creating Google Docs from Form Responses"
View all Tool Updates here and post your tool questions too!
🎙️Makerpad Podcast
Episode #34 - Nicolas Sharp - Attio
Nicolas Sharp is the CEO & Founder of Attio, which is a fully customisable workspace for your team's relationships and workflows.
In this episode, Ben and Nicholas discuss...
- How Attio helps you set up a notification system for your internal processes.
- Remote work organizations and why workflows matter.
- Where the no-code industry is going according to Nicholas.
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. Commitments have now reached over $700k, we've partnered with First Round and Brianne Kimmel has come onboard as an advisor.
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!
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Ben ✌️ & the Makerpad team 😍
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