🗣️ We want your stories! + 🤩 Join the Makerpad team

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​NEW! We want your stories! Contribute to Makerpad

We're excited to share for the first time our new Contribute page (kudos to Ben for putting this together).

We're making it our mission to share all the awesome things our community is doing without code, and this brings us a little closer to achieving that mission.

If you have a story to tell, we want to hear it.

If you're launching a business or side-project, share what you're building through us and make our audience your audience.

​Here's the page for anyone interested.

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🤲 On the blog: How no-code helped a product manager pivot into holistic healing

Katie Hill is a low-coder-turned no-coder and Digital Product Manager from Oregon USA.

After the pandemic hit, she came up with the idea to build a holistic healing community platform — a project that would combine her skills in digital marketing with her passion for holistic health.

Katie suffered from a mystery illness for 3 years when she was just out of college. After getting fed up with no diagnosis from multiple doctors, she finally went to see a naturopath. She was diagnosed within a week and after some dietary and lifestyle changes, was back to her healthy self.

That changed her whole perspective on healthcare. And ever since, she's felt the call to spread the word about alternative, root-cause healing, and to promote and facilitate connections with amazing holistic providers.

Choosing the no-code path

Katie took part in an entrepreneur bootcamp that resulted in a business plan and pitch deck. However, she was faced with the question of how to build her idea on a bootstrap budget.

She came across Makerpad’s No-Code Fundamentals course, and although she'd never heard “no-code” before, she took a leap of faith and dived in.

Through the course, Katie started building a platform that would include a provider directory, resources and information on modalities, a marketplace for providers to sell their products, and community spaces for providers to collaborate and patients to meet others with similar conditions.

It's free to search the platform's directory, resources, and marketplace, but Katie plans to add a membership for additional community features.

Softr, Airtable, and the “build fast, build often” approach

Katie had originally planned on using Webflow, Airtable and Jetboost for the build, but one of the valuable lessons she learned from the course was to "build fast, build often".

So she switched gears and tried Softr + Airtable — and she's very glad she followed the urge to pivot!

She built and iterated and built, and Katie says she's happy with the way Village Health turned out, especially with only a handful of days to build.

She was able to build out a directory, modality resource list, subscription plans, and a member dashboard. She plans to add more community features in the near future.

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Read Katie's full story here.

Want to join the next No-Code Fundamentals cohort? Here's more info.

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✉️ New tutorial: Set up, market and run a paid newsletter using ConvertKit

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to set up and run a paid newsletter, including capturing and converting new subscribers, taking recurring payments, and of course, sending your newsletter — both free and paid versions.

Historically, you would have needed to use a few tools to handle all of this work, but thanks to ConvertKit's new Product feature update, you can now do it all in one place.

This tutorial will show you the setup step-by-step so you can get your paid newsletter up and running today.

​View this tutorial →​

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💼 Jobs​
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🌟 Marketing & Editorial Assistant – Makerpad​
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We're looking for a junior-level assistant to help us produce awesome content. This person will be at the helm of our content production machine, responsible for quality control and publishing, sourcing and writing content ideas, and helping market content through our social channels.

Sound like you? Read more and apply →​

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​Operations Lead – Varuna

Varuna is looking for an Operations Lead (Growth) to come in and ramp up the pace of product, growth, and customer delivery processes at Varuna. With high follow-through energy and a structured approach to operations, this person will be an active participant in building product, sales, and marketing team automation and coordinating the logistics of customer deployments.

​Platform Security Engineer – Unqork

Unqork is the no-code platform that's pioneering a new way for companies to build, deploy, and manage complex, enterprise-grade applications. As a Platform Security Engineer, you will work with the platform product and engineering team to securely architect security features in the platform, and in compliance with applicable customer requirements, compliance regulations, security standards, and laws.

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🚀 Community Projects

▶️ A course on how I automated my multiple YouTube channels, by Greg of codeless.how.

"I've recently recorded a course on how I automated my multiple YouTube channels, using Integromat, Zapier and Airtable. TBH for me it's crazy how much time spent on the process has been saved thanks to this automation. You can use it for your needs or go to each YouTube channel and offer this as a service! 🤯"​
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🎉 Procesio <> Airtable integration available, by Julian Lupescu.

"Hi folks, happy to share that our new tool procesio.com now integrates with Airtable via REST API 🎉 Procesio is a no-code low-code tool to integrate apps like Webflow, Airtable, Sendgrid, Sheets, AWS S3, or Cloudconvert, or to build your own Custom Actions/ Flows."

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🏗️ Build Club

Build Club is a weekly meet-up where members can share what they are building, get feedback, ask questions and get help from each other. Join Build Club.

Cheers,
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Ben & the Makerpad team ✌️