Makerpad - 🛠️ Building Communities & Marketplaces

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😀 Community Challenge

It's the last few days of our Challenge to build a place for people to meet online!

Using no-code tools, you can create a community 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 Weds Oct 21st to be in with a chance of winning prizes!

Registration to join is now open! Register Here!

📺 Latest Tutorials

💻 How to create a Notion membership site with Memberspace (Tutorial)
🎱 Setting up user profiles & authentication on Webflow with 8base (Tutorial)

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

🆕 Build an All-in-One SaaS Solution with Outseta. Monday October 19th. We'll be joined by Geoff Roberts to showcase the use-cases and functionality of Outseta, including email, memberships, payments, analytics & customer support. Register Here!

🆕 Building Drop-In Billing Pages with Servicebot. Wednesday October 21st. We'll be joined by Ben Sears to dive into the basics of Servicebot to learn how to create drop-in billing pages without code. Also how to implement a cloneable Servicebot Bubble template and Stripe Payment Webhooks too. Register Here!

🔁 Engage Your Audience with involve.me. We were 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 dive into the basics of involve.me, its functionality and how to build a shoppable quiz. Pro Members: Watch Replay!

🔁 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. Pro Members: Watch Replay - Part 1, Pro-Members: 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. Pro Members: Watch Replay!

See all upcoming events on our Calendar

🤖 Member Projects

Makerpad community members are regularly learning about new no-code tools, posting resources, showcasing their projects and adding useful tips & tricks in the forums to help other members out. Here are some of our latest member projects.

What I Learned In No-Code This Year created by Romy Misra. "I tried something different today, I did a vlog of what I've learned from making things this year and posting on Youtube! Would love any feedback!"

3 Things I Learned From Hotjar created by Curtis. "Hotjar is a great tool that can help you understand how people click, move, and scroll your website. I have used Hotjar for a long time. It's always a go-to tool for quick UX modification. During my recent launch, I learned three things. These insights helped me optimize."

Startup Investment Library created by Felix. "I have been working on VenturesList for some time after the T30 Challenge. This product is designed to help early-stage startups develop funding knowledge and strategies by showing essential resources in the investment life cycle."

Share a Coffee created by Curtis. "My daily newsletter is called Share a Coffee. Every weekday I'll showcase a new creator and buy them a coffee through Buy Me A Coffee. The creator nominates the next person to get a coffee."

Investment Readiness Score created by Hari. "This is a simple model that I have developed for quick assessment of investment readiness for startups. This can be used by investors, founders & mentors to see how a startup is placed at this point in time to attract funding and the nature of the funding source."

Simple Class Template created by Paul Vu. "This is a simple class management Glide template for teachers to use to manage their classes and students."

Taskcord created by Bigint. "Taskord is a free open source social media tool for tasks! Where users can post public and private to-do's, ask questions, and launch products. Taskord helps you to get things done together with the members of the community."

Take a look at some more of our member's projects in the Community Showcase!

⚙️ New Components

Webflow - Cloneable bubble.io template (Component)
Bubble - Project board block (Component)
Zapier - Get daily reminders in Slack (Component)
Airtable - Same table linked records script (Component)
Glide - Issue tracker template (Component)

View all components in our Component Library

💼 Jobs

Featured: Squarespace Theme Builder & Systems Designer - MOUSHI - Remote

MOUSHI is a micro-firm that began by designing websites on Squarespace and eventually became a featured partner on their platform. We build the web presence for small to midsize service firms, and go on to provide them with consulting, support, and creative education. MOUSHI are looking to hire a Systems Designer with demonstrated experience of building for Squarespace, following best practices. With the ability to understand the clients needs and be able to manage projects successfully. Read more!

Featured: No-Code Operations (Tech & Ops Lead) - JJELLYFISH - Remote

JJELLYFISH is a B2B consulting firm that supports startups and new ventures globally. They are looking to hire someone extremely well-versed with Slack, Airtable, Zapier, Notion, Google Suite. (Bonus points for other tools — tech stack includes Reply.io, Coupler, Parabola, Apollo.io, Phantombuster, and more – always evolving!) Read more!

No-Code Operations Specialist - RPA Tools - Remote

Rebuild Concept App in bubble.io - Freelance Contract - Remote

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

🎙️ Makerpad Podcast

Episode #37: Building Marketplaces with Connor Finlayson. Connor is the founder of Unicorn Factory, a no-code marketplace that connects businesses in New Zealand to local freelancers.

In this episode, Ben and Connor discuss:

• Why Connor uses Airtable
• Building a custom approval system for his marketplace
• Connor's thoughts on Zapier and Memberstack (among other tools he uses)

You can listen to all episodes of the Makerpad Podcast here Makerpad.co/podcast

If you like our episodes, a review would be really helpful! 🙏

👉 Memberships

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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