🧑🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏽 6 Week Community Program: Open Now! 🏰 How to run a low-cost membership community

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🧑🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏽 6 Week Community Program

Want to go further with understanding, building and nurturing a community-based business?

October 12th - November 20th 2020

Our six-week program explores how to successfully build, grow, and manage an online community.

🤿 The Community Creator Deep-Dive: How to run a low-cost membership community or creator business with Circle, Memberspace, Gumroad, Notion & Super

Starting a business online as a creator can be a daunting task, especially if you don’t have a technical background. In this deep-dive we will break down, step-by-step, two ways to build a membership community business using tools such as Notion, Gumroad, Memberspace, Circle and Super.

Our deep-dive content is usually reserved just for our paid members, but as we've really pushed the boundaries of what can be created by anyone for this deep-dive, we decided to make this one open to all.

⚔️ The T30 Challenge

This is it! Tomorrow is the final day to submit your projects for the T30 Challenge.

All projects must be submitted by Monday 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!

📺 Tutorials

⚡ Setting up Super with Notion (Tutorial)
⭕ Integrating Circle with Super & Notion (Tutorial)
🔐 Integrating Memberspace with Super & Circle for paid communities (Tutorial)
💳 Selling digital products with Gumroad, with Notion & Super (Tutorial)
㊗️ Translate your website with Weglot (Tutorial)
🔀Weglot: A multilingual integration for every CMS (Tutorial)
🔤 Weglot for Webflow: Basic Setup (Tutorial)
🔣 Weglot for Webflow: UI Kit Walkthrough (Tutorial)
🈚 Can I use Weglot for free? (Tutorial)

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

🆕 Building a Community Site with Bubble - Part 1. Monday September 28th. Join us and the Bubble Education team for the first part of this workshop on building a community app like Makerpad, all on Bubble's no-code platform! You'll learn to create features like exclusive memberships, user profiles and comment & upvote systems. Register Here!

🆕 The Community Creator Deep-Dive Expert Panel. Tuesday September 29th. In conjunction with the launch of our latest Makerpad Deep-Dive, join us for a conversation about how to run a low-cost membership community or creator business using no-code tools. Register Here!

🆕 Building a Community Site with Bubble - Part 2. Wednesday September 30th. Join us and the Bubble Education team for the second part of this workshop on building a community app like Makerpad, all on Bubble's no-code platform! You'll learn to create features like exclusive memberships, user profiles and comment & upvote systems. Register Here!

🔁 T30 Challenge Workshop - Makerpad Community Meetup. Julie Gauthier talked about project progress with some of our challenge members. Challenge Members: Watch Replay!

🔁 Building Models for Venture Stage Companies We explored 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. Watch Replay!

🔁 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!

See all upcoming events on our Calendar.

⚙️ New Components

Slack - Work with external partners (Component)
Glide - Create your own Instagram (Component)
Parabola - Send data from any API to Google Sheets (Component)
Airtable - Matching strings using the Levenshtein Distance Algorithm (Component)
Webflow - Animated Fragment Slideshow (Component)

Take a look at the Component Library!

🆕 Makerpad Updates

🎉 Pico is now a Makerpad Partner!

We’re excited to announce that Pico is now a Makerpad partner. Pico provides signup and payment tools for earning revenue directly from your audience. After configuring Pico’s pre-built forms and landing pages, you’ll find they are built to convert visitors into customers and also add a modern touch to your site too. Create membership payments, subscription paywalls, paid newsletters, take donations and power online courses and consulting engagements with Pico. Read the blog post!

💼 Jobs

Webflow Job Board Builder - Freelance - Remote
Senior Engineer - Loomery - London
No-Code Developer - AirDev - Remote

To see all job postings and to apply - visit Makerpad.co/jobs

🤖 Community Activity

🥳 Projects

Qontroles - Created by Carlos Marchan - "A workspace to follow up on operations, built on Bubble. Many businesses and teams rely on tools like project management apps and spreadsheets to supervise operations. For many, information remains painful to find and use. We believe that follow-up work should be easier to do. Qontroles is an actionable community-like feed for your phone or desktop to help you act on the latest news. It lets you easily setup a virtual workspace to follow-up on operations."

Hamilton.so - Created by Tem - "A little a lil passion project complete! Myself, Luisa and Jakey from the Notion community built a wiki for the musical Hamilton"

Mobius.xyz - Created by Zachary King - "On the home stretch, building out the front end for Mobius.xyz (pain tracking platform). Company registered, Stripe account setup, Outseta activated and linked to stripe. Now I just need to figure out this whole web-flow thing and I'm sorted!"

Showw.work - Created by Aparajith Aradhya - "Last week we had some setbacks when other projects needed our time but we are back again and tying up all the loose ends and launching soon!"

Fresh Layover - Created by Hirad - "An Instrumental Background Music Project - I have completely changed the design of my project and focused more on a fun digital journey theme. It is now a one page website; like writing things on a sticky note, you can write it on a postcard. Based on the words that you write, you will be shown instrumental background music stickers. For example, if you write the word “calm” and some other words you will see an ambient playlist sticker"

Add your project to the Community Showcase!

🧰 Tool Updates

View all Tool Updates here and post your tool questions too!

🎙️Makerpad Podcast

Episode #35 - Taimur Abdaal from Causal.

Taimur Abdaal is the co-founder and CEO of Causal. Causal helps you build financial models effortlessly and share them with interactive, visual dashboards in a way that everyone will understand.

In this episode, Ben and Taimur discuss...

• The main use cases for Causal at startups
• The trend in engineering towards block based building.
• Measuring your economic impact

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

🌍 Changemakers 2020

Presenting Changemakers 2020, a virtual hackathon connecting makers with non-profits, running December 7th - 11th. Non-profits are leading the way toward recovery and progress. But while these groups have the passion and vision to affect change, so many of them have operational and technical challenges that slow them down. With Changemakers, we’re connecting tech’s smartest minds with the projects that need their help to run efficiently. Read More

💵 Makerpad No-Code Fund

Last chance to invest! 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!

Cheers,

Ben ✌️ & the Makerpad team 😍

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