🎗️ Scaling NZ charitable donations + 👀 New Stacker jobs!

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📚 On the blog

🎗️ Helping charities in New Zealand connect with donors using no-code

Who doesn't love it when no-code is used to solve large-scale problems?! This is the story of how a grassroots charity called Chive is making an impact in New Zealand by connecting nonprofits to donors.

"I'm Stephen George, Founder of Chive, a platform for charities in Aotearoa, New Zealand. I am also a freelance no-code product developer. I support organisations and enable them to build fast with no-code tools."

Introducing Chive

"Chive is a platform to find and donate to charities in Aotearoa New Zealand, with the long-term goal of making giving easy, empowering and effective.

Built on no-code tools, our platform creates beautiful profiles for any charity in Aotearoa, making it easy for causes of all sizes to tell their story.

They can customize a beautiful profile, and collect one-off or recurring donations through our donate function.

As a set-up, the platform has a search interface that allows for dynamic search, a dashboard for charities to manage their content, and beautiful, easy to use design that makes finding impactful causes easy."

Building a donation platform on no-code tools

"We love love love the tools we've built on, and we’re huge advocates of no-code.

Our front-end is Webflow, and our backend is Airtable. We use Zapier and Parabola to stitch everything together, and Jetboost as our search filtering plugin!

These no-code tools are a game changer, allowing us to operate lean and make changes in real time.

When we launched Chive we were still getting to grips with how to work it out, and would often make mistakes. One time I restored a previous version of Chive in Webflow, and in doing so, messed up all of our charity profiles... that was a rough way to learn not to do that again!

Thankfully we're now pro at Webflow and other tools, and we find using them quick and easy."

Keep your MVP simple

"One thing I’ve learnt is not to over-complicate your MVP. We figured out really quickly that our customers are politely indifferent when it comes to whether or not we release a new feature!

It really helps to make a concerted effort to speak directly with your core customers. Ask them what their biggest problem is, and make sure your product is solving that problem. This is a much more effective way to spend your time, rather than spending it just building new features!

Lastly, be patient with the tools you're using. It's taken me time to be fully comfortable with the stack we're built on, and I would recommend working with a mentor (shout out to Connor Finlayson who was instrumental in guiding us!) to learn from and grow with."

​Read the full story.

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📚 More from the blog

☕ How an ops manager is connecting tech startups with top talent in France

No-code businesses are making hiring easier! Karma Driven is a French startup that connects top tech talent with the right job opportunities. Here’s an interview with the Co-Founder and no-code enthusiast, Florent Thomas.

​Read the full story.

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🚀 Community Projects

​Feedback requested: Profitable products built with No-Code, by Doug Bui.

"Hi everyone, I'm Doug, new member of the community. I've been using No-Code tools and wondering what sort of profitable products have been built with No-Code. I'm also curious how others are choosing and using No-Code/Low-Code in their work (evaluating their pros/cons), as they offered very different things in terms of security, learning, production deployment, etc. I made a list here."

​I want to build a less expensive (but also better) Typeform alternative, by Mike Alche.

"Hi Everybody! How are you? I've quit my software development job because I truly believe in the no-code movement and want to help move it forward. What I want to build is a product in the "nice" forms vertical."​
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​Tech Stack for Booking, Membership, and Payment, by Tyler Johnson.

"Hello - I'm looking for a tech stack that will incorporate Booking Service, Memberships, and Payments. The idea would be to sell memberships for an entertainment space where a guest would create a Membership and then be able to reserve space for a selected period of time. The user would only pay for the membership, not for the time they book but they we need to reserve space for the member. Any help would be appreciated!"

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💁 Makerpad Advisor Spotlight

Makerpad Advisors are a select group of ambassadors that act as the voice of our students and community members. They are no-code advocates, are driven by supporting others, and are motivated to extend their knowledge in ways that drive impact.

This week we're shining the spotlight on Greg Smith.

​Read Greg's community intro post here.

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✨ Partners

​Outseta: How to run no-code pricing experiments using Outseta's plan families feature Read more >

​MemberSpace: How to Sell Digital Products with Carrd Read more >

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💼 Jobs

​Product Engineer – Stacker

​Data Analyst – Stacker

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😍 Want to see your own story featured in this newsletter?

We're looking for more stories from our own community and beyond—tales of success (and failure) you've had using no-code tools. Whether you're building a business, forging a community, writing a newsletter, running a non-profit, or anything in between, we want to share it

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Cheers!
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Ben & the Makerpad team ✌️