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🏆 The T30 Challenge

Announcing the winners!

We have had a fantastic response to the T30 challenge and have been blown away by the enthusiasm, commitment & creativity of our members! We have had hundreds of participants with 60+ projects being submitted for community voting. The judging panel were extremely impressed with the quality of the ideas submitted and the effort made to ship something in just 30 days!

And the winners are:

🥇 1st Place: Neo Coach - 1-on-1 Digital Health & Fitness Coaching. Created by Andrew Dowd & Luke Kavanagh.
🥈 2nd Place: Daily.so - Build closer communities with asynchronous daily video check-ins. Created by Kieran
🥉 3rd Place: Game Builder - Classic Multiplayer Zelda Game Builder. Created by Jason K

Congratulations to the winners & well done to all who participated! 👏


😀 Community Challenge

In this new challenge, you have three weeks to build a place for people to meet online and start to find your people!

Can you sit on your couch and make new friends around the world? One of the greatest joys is finding people who care about the same things as you! Using no-code tools, you can create a place online for people who care about the same things to meet one another, discuss those interests, and work on new ideas together. Submit your project by Oct 21st to be in with a chance of winning prizes!

Registration to join is now open! Register Here!

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🎱 Setting up profiles + authentication on Webflow, with 8base (Tutorial)

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📆 Workshops & Events


🆕 Makerpad Community Challenge Kick-off Session. Monday October 5th. Join us for the first Community Challenge session. Over the course of the challenge, you'll have three weeks to build a place for people to meet online and start to find your people! Register Here!

🆕 Engage Your Audience with involve.me. Wednesday October 7th. We'll be joined by Monika Ben of involve.me to dive into how to use the tool and explore some of the ways involve.me will let you build engaging interactive content without the need for a developer. We'll be diving into the basics of involve.me, its functionality and how to build a shoppable quiz. Register Here!

🔁 Building a Community Site with Bubble We were joined by the Bubble Education team for these workshops on building a community app like Makerpad, all on Bubble's no-code platform! We discussed features like exclusive memberships, user profiles and comment & upvote systems. Watch Replay: Part 1, Watch Replay: Part 2.

🔁 The Community Creator Deep-Dive Expert Panel. In conjunction with the launch of our latest Makerpad Deep-Dive, we discussed how to run a low-cost membership community or creator business using no-code tools. 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!

See all upcoming events on our Calendar.


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Community Manager - Notion - San Francisco
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