🌙 Sam's moon manifestation app + 🛠️ Build a mobile app with glide!

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📚 On the blog

🎨 How a UX designer built a community-focused app on Adalo

We love community-based apps built on no-code! When we found out about this one, we had to dive in and find out more. We spoke to Samantha Shaibani about her creation on Adalo, Moonifest.

Here’s her story!

"Hi, I'm Sam Shaibani. By day, I’m a Senior Product Designer Adalo, where I contribute to building simple and intuitive no-code software.

By night, I manage my side business: Moonifest. It’s an app that guides people in manifesting alongside the moon phases."

My journey with manifestation

"I started manifesting with the moon around 2018 when I joined a women’s intuition group. It was there that I learned about different spiritual practices including moon phases, goddess energy, archetypes, divination, clairvoyance, and so much more.

These practices helped me build trust in myself and experience an overwhelming amount of personal growth. They opened doors to an entirely new way of living by listening and trusting my instincts.

I believe at our very core, we all crave meaningful human connection. But before we can connect honestly and authentically with others, we have to heal and create that connection with ourselves. So I built Moonifest to do just that."

What is Moonifest about?

"“Moonifesting” is the act of manifesting with the moon. It’s a practice of setting intentions and connecting with the 8 moon phases to guide you in fulfilling them.

Every time you open the app you'll see the current moon phase, a short description of the energy forecast, and reflection questions to prompt introspection.

On each new moon (the beginning of a moon cycle) you are prompted to set an intention to declare what it is you are manifesting. To add to the holistic practice, there are visualized meditations available to purchase!"

Using Adalo to build Moonifest

"The website was created using Squarespace, and I built the Moonifest app using my favorite no-code software, Adalo!

When I first found Adalo back in 2019, I knew right away that it would be the best tool to build on. It's simple, easy to use, and had the right amount of complexity that I needed to create what I had in mind.

It's definitely tricky being a non-developer in a developer world. But fast forward to February of 2020, Moonifest won Adalo App of the Month! I got to connect with more of the Adalo team, was featured on the showcase page, and got a free Adalo t-shirt."

Building in public

"Just like moon rays, Moonifest is a transparent and open startup. This is what I pay per year to run the app.

• Website Hosting (Adalo): $700 annually
• Website Domain (Google Domains): $30 annually
• Website Hosting (Squarespace): $144 annually
• Apple Developer Account: $99 annually
• Google Play Registration Fee: $25 annually
• Email /Subscription Platform (ConvertKit): $1,020 annually"

Create something that solves a real problem

"Since launching the app in January 2020, Moonifest app has helped women set over 28,500 intentions! We have over 38k users on Moonifest, and have crossed nearly 32,000 downloads.

My advice to makers in the process of building something, or thinking about building something: Focus on solving a real problem, and care about the impact of your product on the world!"

​Read the full story.

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📺 Tutorials

📱 Introduction to building a mobile app with Glide

This tool path will introduce you to building a mobile app with Glide, the easiest way to build a mobile app with no-code.

We will start with a Google Sheet and create a main screen and then a detail screen for our data within Glide. We will also walk through the various settings and style options available to you before you publish your app.

​View this tool-path.

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🧑‍🏫 Courses

🚨 No-Code Fundamentals – starts Nov 2nd 🚨

Cohort 4 of No-Code Fundamentals closes *tomorrow*. This is your last chance to get a seat if you're considering joining.

Got a question about cohorts? Ask here.

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🚀 Community Projects

​Starter Guide: Building a Job Board, by Matthew Busel.

"hey everyone! I wrote up a starter guide for anyone interested in building a no-code job board with Webflow and Airtable. Hope it's helpful! Of course feel free to reach out if you have any questions 🙂"

​Opensea Cloneable, by Patrick Finnigan.

"Introducing OpenFee - an Opensea cloneable built with the finsweet client-first system. This was a lot of fun to build out over the last two nights!! gm, Patrick"​
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​Feedback Requested: The Ultimate Student, by Peter Fettis.

"Hi everyone, I'm a no-code maker/designer passionate about education. I'm asking for help from the Makerpad community in contributing to a project about learning. Like many of you, I'm almost entirely self-taught, and have managed many facets of learning new skills in honing my craft, with either limited or too much information."

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💼 Jobs

​Low Code developer – Credimi

​Program Manager – Partcloud

​Bubble Developer – Candor

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Cheers,
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Ben & the Makerpad team ✌️