🤯 Look! So Many Projects Made This Week!

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๐Ÿ“บ New Tutorial

๐Ÿ•โ€๐Ÿฆบ Fetch data via an API using DataFetcher & Airtable (Tutorial)
๐ŸŽซ How to build a Membership site using Squarespace & Memberspace (Tutorial)
๐Ÿค“ How to clone a job board template into Webflow (Tutorial)

โญ Challenges

The Advent of No-Code is a daily no-code mini-challenge for different skill levels that can be solved with a variety of no-code tools. The first week of the Advent of No-Code has been amazing! With members shipping fun, useful and amazing projects every day!

There's still time to take part! Use the challenges as training, practice problems or to build up a project portfolio. Just a little knowledge and some ideas will get you pretty far.

Take a look at how you can take part! adventofnocode.com

๐Ÿ† Bubble Challenge Winner!

Congratulations to Vinod Bhadala for their bubble project - QR Menu! QR Menu really utilizes bubble to its fullest, and provides an easy-to-use tool for restaurant owners to generate QR codes so that patrons can easily access the digital menu.

Honorable mentions include:

Well done to all who participated!

๐Ÿ“† Workshops & Events

๐Ÿ†• No-code AI: An Open Discussion. Tuesday 8th December. This Open Conversation with insights from experts will investigate how Artificial Intelligence can be applied in relation to the no-code space. Register Here!

๐Ÿ†• Make Your Website Multi-lingual with Weglot. Tuesday 8th December. We will be joined by Thomas Fanchin from Weglot. Weglot is a tool which makes it simple to translate your website into multiple languages. In this workshop we'll be exploring how to integrate Weglot into a Webflow site. Register Here!

๐Ÿ†• Office Hours with Sahil Lavingia & Ben Tossell. Thursday 10th December. Join Sahil (Founder and CEO of Gumroad) and Ben (Founder and CEO of Makerpad) as they chat about the new Gumroad memberships feature. Learn exactly what it enables for founders, how it was built with zero meetings and what's next for Gumroad. Register Here!

๐Ÿ†• Automation for Entrepreneurs. Wednesday 16th December. We will be joined by Jono Bacon to learn how he has built a successful business that maximises flexibility and efficiency. Jono will share automations he uses to run his business, how he approaches marketing with a community mindset, and the importance of systems thinking. Register Here!

๐Ÿ†• Automate Content Marketing & Print-on-Demand Fulfilment. Thursday 17th December. Melissa Buening will go over content marketing production automations and how she uses multiple print-on-demand vendors to fully-automate product fulfilment for her 3 ecommerce companies on Shopify. Register Here!

๐Ÿ” Hands-on With Formstack. No-Code Data Collection, Document Generation & Digital Signature Solution. Learn how Formstackโ€™s workplace productivity platform can help you to build forms and surveys, automate document creation and signing, and create intelligent workflowsโ€”all without code. In this session, we walk through: Formstack use cases, Airtable integration & automated document creation. Watch Replay!

๐Ÿ” Building an Events Management System with 8base and Retool. In this workshop we were joined by Sebastian Scholl, Product Manager at 8base. We develop an Event Management platform which enables anyone to create and update records, search for events and also view users who have registered for events. Watch Replay!

See all upcoming events on our Calendar


โœ๏ธ From The Blog

Member Spotlight: Travis Boatright
Each week weโ€™ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series. Read the blog post!

๐Ÿ’ผ Jobs

Bubble Developer - Workscout - Remote
Build a Cameo MVP - Remote
Front-End & Back-End Ecommerce MVP - Remote

To view all no-code jobs and to apply, visit makerpad.co/jobs


๐Ÿค– Member Projects

Dynamic Personal Bio created by Mathieu de Gouville. At first it looks like a simple home page, hover over the social links to see the dynamic page previews come to life!

Culture Questions created by Alden Marshall. Complete a team building questionnaire and export it as a PDF with your company name on it!

Groceries by Aisle created by Travis Boatright. Get around the grocery store super fast by organising your shopping list by category and aisle!

Nudger created by Glenn McWhinney. A Webflow app that lets you send a timed email reminder.

My Fitness Coach by Mamad. Book a session with an online fitness coach.

Taco Me created by Ben Tossell. Send a virtual taco to a friend to brighten their day!

Send an Elf created by James More. Send a small elf to a big heart during these difficult times!

Creator Grants created by Ben Tossell. Fast funding for no-code creators.

No-Code AMA Directory created by Glenn McWhinney. A place to make sure you catch all the upcoming AMA's and add your own expert AMA.

A Better Day created by Veronica Head. An online store selling positive message merchandise to raise mental health awareness.

First Time Founders created by Raul. A collection of entrepreneurial resources for first time founders.

โš™๏ธ New Components

Glide - Restaurant Guide (Component)
Parabola - Push Pendo.io data to Salesforce (Component)
Webflow - Automated fragment template (Component)
Airtable - Sales CRM data validation (Component)
Slack - Stay healthy working from home (Component)

View all components in our Component Library


๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Makerpad Podcast

Episode #44 Dorna Moini - Founder of Documate

In this episode of the podcast we were joined by Dorna Moini, CEO and Founder of document automation platform Documate.

In this conversation we talk about:
  • How Dorna made the switch from lawyer to start-up founder
  • Starting by helping with domestic abuse cases
  • Scratching your own itch
  • When to go big
  • How Dorna views the no-code space

And much more! We hope you enjoy this conversation. 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! ๐Ÿ™


๐Ÿ‘‰ 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.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Apply for Pro Membership!

Cheers,

Ben โœŒ๏ธ & the Makerpad team ๐Ÿ˜


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