🏅Bubble Challenge & 🤔 What is no-code?

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💪 Challenges

The Bubble Challenge starts today!

This month is for Bubble beginners and Bubble experts - we just want to see what you can accomplish in a month. Build anything you want - this is your month to get your idea out of your head and onto the screen.

Bubble is the most robust no-code app builder in the game! Using a drag-and-drop editor you can build complete, mobile-responsive web apps with a ton of functionality. From integrating databases, account management, to integrating your favourite other platforms.

Let's build on Bubble!

‍Rules

• Your project should be started during November
• Must primarily be built in Bubble
• Must be submitted on Makerpad.co by the 28th Nov 2020.
• You can work as a team

Take a look at the prizes available and Register Here!

🆕 Bubble Challenge: Kick-off Session. Monday November 2nd. Join us to run through the rules, the criteria, the prizes and everything else you need to know related to the Challenge! Register Here!

🆕 Getting Started with 8base. Monday November 2nd. In this free workshop we're joined by Sebastian Scholl, Product Manager of 8base. 8base is an easy way to build, run and grow professional-grade web and mobile applications that power your business. Register Here!

🔁 Build an All-in-One SaaS Solution with Outseta. We were joined by Geoff Roberts to showcase the use-cases and functionality of Outseta, including email, memberships, payments, analytics & customer support. Pro Members: Watch Replay!

🔁 Building Drop-In Billing Pages with Servicebot. We were 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. Pro Members: Watch Replay!

See all upcoming events on our Calendar

🆕 Makerpad Updates

🎉 Announcing Stackby as a Makerpad partner

We’re excited to announce that Stackby is now a Makerpad partner! Stackby gives you the building blocks of spreadsheets, databases and APIs in an all-in-one flexible platform. It allows you to plan, manage and automate your work. Stackby is as easy as a spreadsheet but you can mould it into a powerful database that your teams will love to use. Read the Blog post!

🤖 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.

Object Caching Estimator created by Sean Tierney - "I just published v1 of my app calculator to estimate the impact of object caching for WooCommerce sites. It’s basically an online estimator where you enter your site’s URL and it hits various API’s in the background to assemble an estimate of the speed improvements and consequent conversion gains for commerce sites. As well as savings to hosting bills based on reduced resource usage. If there’s enough interest I’ll publish a longer video that delves into some of the lessons learned in creating this app."

SystemFlow created by Greg and Matt. - "SystemFlow is the missing framework for Webflow. A few months ago we came up with an idea for a UI Framework that would help us deliver projects in Webflow much faster. I broke down the process to the tiniest bits and discovered that we spent so much time on repeating the same things over and over for each individual project. The pain-points were for example: wasting time recreating the structure for each website, with navbar, footer, creating new classes to apply spacing and deal with inconsistent spacing. We are on the last straight to launch and need your feedback!"

WiseCabin created by Austin Mudd. - "I recently went live with a landing page for a platform I am working on to curate the best insights from Twitter. Topics would include Tech, VC, Entrepreneurship, Business, Real Estate and other industries. There's an infinite amount of content out there in the world and we only have 24 hours in the day to consume it. So I'm hoping this platform could be a resource for folks to see the best of the best lessons learned, insights, and tips from people that interact with these topics."

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

⚙️ New Components

Parabola - Translate your Webflow blog (Component)
Webflow - Pompeo retail template (Component)
Slack - Live video call with your team (Component)
Glide - Medical Centre app template (Component)
Bubble - User management block (Component)

View all components in our Component Library

🎙️ Makerpad Podcast

Episode #39: Humberto Ayres Pereira

Humberto is the CEO of dashdash, a web-app creator with a spreadsheet interface allowing you to build powerful sales and marketing tools. He also helped build 3 other digital businesses, Skin.pt, EatFirst.com and AirCourts.com

In this discussion, Ben and Humberto discuss:

• Building with a no-code mentality
• Why dashdash uses the spreadsheet as the foundation of their product
• The major use cases for dashdash users

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! 🙏

✍️ Makerpad Blog

🤔 What is no-code?

No-code is a way of building on the internet and automating processes without writing a line of code. It is a way of thinking, a creative expression, and an act of resourcefulness. It is an answer to the question, “How can I use what exists to create something new?” Read the Blog post!

👉 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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