☕ Build a coffee subscription site + 🎨 Airtable's new interface designer!

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📚 On the blog

🎗️ How a Zapier partnership manager built a coffee subscription business with Softr

"Hi! I’m Briana Strauss. I’m a partnerships manager for Zapier, a platform that connects 4k+ apps to create automated workflows.

My focus is working to service and manage our integration partnerships, so our customers can connect and use their favorite apps together."

Becoming a Makerpad student

"I never studied engineering or product management in college, and most of my learning has been on the job and from other teammates/mentors.

I was looking for a way to level up and better understand no-code. I wanted to be a better partnerships manager to all of our partners, no matter the classification or category.

I was excited when I found the No-Code Fundamentals course, especially because I could work collaboratively with a cohort of people looking to accomplish the same thing.

If you’re curious about no-code or want to learn more about it, I would recommend the No-Code Fundamentals course.

I can’t say enough good things about Ben and Amie, and how willing they and the rest of the community are to help you create your dream project."

Turning a coffee habit into a no-code project

"During the course, we got to work on a variety of interesting projects.

For one, I never imagined I would be able to build an app, but the curriculum is laid out nicely, and they make it easy to follow along.

We got to work on many different projects, but my personal favorite was a coffee subscription online shop. It was mainly inspired by the fact that I drink way too much coffee, but what I liked about this project was the variety of tools and curriculum lessons it encompassed."

Building with no-code tools

"I used Softr to build my website, Stripe to power payment links, Airtable for the marketplace, and of course Zapier to push collected emails to a drip sequence in ActiveCampaign.

I was pleased with how the project turned out and surprised by how easy it was to build this and connect all the platforms.

I haven’t quit my day job (yet) to build this out as an actual real business. However, it’s great to see how no-code tools have so easily enabled a creator economy, where in just one day you can build a website and connect a multitude of apps to get a business up and running."

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📚 More from the blog

☕ How a project manager built a Behance for content writers on Bubble

We love hearing unique perspectives from around the world of people that have taken the step to launch a product, share their learnings, and continuously refine their product. Raimundo did just that—a Chilean product manager who learnt how to build a product that people want to use!

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📺 Tutorials

🎨 Getting started with Airtable's interface designer Watch this tutorial >​

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🧑‍🏫 Courses

🎉 No-Code Fundamentals is BACK! Cohort 5 will be opening its doors for enrollment in the next few days. Keep your eyes on your inbox for an email announcement. Not subscribed to receive updates? You can sign up here.

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🚀 Community Projects

​Resurrected a good ol‘ side business – Pixel Bazaar, by Zlatko Najdenovski.

"Back in the days I was known as “the icons guy”, and Pixel Bazaar was my brand. I was designing icons from 2012 to about 2016. During that time, I mastered the icons craft and learned all the tricks on how to squeeze out maximum creativity on a minimum amount of pixels. But I made the same mistake as 99% of the icons designers."

​Feedback from SaaS Founders wanted, by Philipp Wahler.

" Hey all 👋 This might be a bit off-topic but since a lot of you guys seem to be working in SaaS, I'll give it a shot ;) The startup I'm working on - Vitt - just launched on Product Hunt & I'm dying to get your feedback!"​
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​Need a Bubble Expert to help with Razorpay integration, by Harshala Chavan.

"Hello, I have created an events page on the bubble app. I need to include paid events for the same and wish to integrate it with the Razorpay payment gateway using their Route feature. Please DM with your expected pricing."

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💼 Jobs

​Nocode Video Instructors – RecreateApp

​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 ✌️