🚀 Amazing cohort student updates + 💉 Building a COVID-19 app

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📚 On the blog

💉 How a student built a COVID-19 resource aggregator app

Nitya Jain is a high-school student that attended a no-code workshop, learned how to build an app, and then created a platform to help people locate last-mile COVID-19 resources during the peak of the second wave in India.

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📺 New tutorials

🔃 Sync Airtable to a Webflow CMS with PowerImporter

In this tutorial, learn how to map your Airtable base to your Webflow CMS collections, and keep them in sync automatically.

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📲 How to connect Airtable to Draftbit

For building a mobile app in Draftbit. In this tutorial you will learn how to connect to an Airtable base via API and set up an endpoint in order to fetch records from a table from within that Airtable base.

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⏬ How to create a list screen from Airtable data in Draftbit

In this tutorial, learn how to fetch data from an Airtable base and display the data as a list screen in Draftbit.

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🔗 Connecting Softr form blocks to Airtable

Learn how to properly connect the fields in your Softr forms to your base in Airtable.

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🧑‍🎓 Courses updates

Cohort 3 of No-Code Fundamentals kicked off September 13th. The students have been busy building and sharing with us what they're creating.

👉 Nick Simard put together a thread of threads with all his projects (4 so far!):

Nick Simard 🚢 ➕ 🏗 @nicksimard I've joined @makerpad's 3rd cohort of No-Code Fundamentals and would like a place to track and showcase the threads I'm making for each project. Check them out below (if all goes well there should be 7 threads in all). 🧵 👇 September 23rd 2021 5 Retweets 10 Likes

👉 After learning that Ben Tossell was planning a trip to New York, Brandon Williams built a directory of his favourite Jamaican Restaurants for Ben to visit:

muck (brandon) 🇯🇲 @MuckFogley For this weeks @makerpad project, Seen @bentossell might come to NYC So I built a directory of my favorite Jamaican Restaurants in NYC using @softr_io & @airtable #buildinpublic #MPNC3 pic.twitter.com/wIEKAgRJAW September 21st 2021 5 Retweets 19 Likes

👉 Fredis Benitez tweeted his progress throughout building his project—a way to explore running clubs across the country, built with Softr:

Fredis⚡️ @fredis_b 1/x Starting week 1 of the @makerpad #nocode #mpnc3 cohort. We start with a one-page site. This task requires using tools I’m unfamiliar with so this will be interesting. We get to choose from: @webflow, @carrd, @onuniverse @umso among many more. pic.twitter.com/p2kiuNhlM2 September 23rd 2021 3 Retweets 15 Likes

​👉 Joe Rhew has really embraced #buildinginpublic and is an inspiration to all students, past, present and future. Here's a thread of what he learned building a landing page with Webflow and automating some parts of it:

Joe Rhew @joerhew What I learned putting together a landing page for opshacks.com in 3 days using @webflow and @mailerlite 🧵 #buildinpublic #mpnc3 Ops Hacks - a community of early stage startup o... Join Ops Hacks, a thriving community of early-stage tech startup operations professionals. Here you'... opshacks.com September 23rd 2021 2 Retweets 3 Likes

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🚀 Community Projects

​Make your own Notion-style avatar. Mix and match with over 100 customizable items!, by Felix Wong.

"Have you noticed the Notion-style avatars have gained a lot of attention? Are you considering owning one? There you have it!"

​No-code growth & communication automation tool​, by Sri Nikitha Thummanapalli.

"I'm Sri Nikitha, I'm building a no-code growth & communication automation tool for product creators + brand makers. Basically, it's Canva+Zapier+Buffer, to make your life easier. We want to make it powerful for no-coders for their specific use-cases. Therefore, I'm looking for feedback from the community."​
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​I built a tiny community in Coda 🤯, by T.S. Strickland.

"Howdy, folks! 👋 I wanted to share a tiny project I’ve been working on that I hope will pique some interest here. I give you Codex — a community of makers who are building businesses on Coda."

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💼 Jobs

​Founding Engineer – Wasp-lang

We went through Y Combinator and recently raised our seed round from several US & EU deep tech funds (TBA soon) and early engineers from Facebook, Twitter and Airbnb. We are looking to hire very first engineer(s) to join our team!

​No-code builder – Airtable Agency

You will lead client workshops to identify their workflow challenges, prototype solutions and work on implementation. Responsible for the entire lifecycle of the project, designing and building the workflow, including integration with existing 3rd party systems.

​Growth Engineer – Stacker

We're looking to hire our first ever Growth Engineer to help take Stacker to the next level! Working as part of a growth team, you'll be focussing on using data and experimentation to improve part of our product flow.

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✨ Partner Updates

​Outseta​

"Hi Makerpad people! We just hit publish on our end of summer product update at Outseta. We're excited to announce per user pricing, payment links, an SSO integration with Tribe.so, passwordless authentication, and more. Some highlights include: You can now offer per user pricing out-of-the-box—no need to integrate your billing and authentication tools; easily generate payment links for hosted pages where you can sell any of your products; we now support passwordless authentication using with Magic.Link or Cotter.app. Read more.

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🗣️ We ❤️ your stories!

Want to share what you're working on with our audience? We're accepting contributions from the community. Read more here.

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Until next week!
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Ben & the Makerpad team ✌️