🙌 Build your own 2-sided marketplace + 🏠 A no-code app for homeowners!

📚 On the blog

🏠 Connecting homeowners to personal services using no-code tools

Todd Schmidt and his team built a business to help people through their journey of homeownership. It was all done on no-code, using Webflow, Bubble, and a few other handy tools.

"I'm Todd and I'm the CTO and co-founder of The Home Dispatch. We help reduce the stress of homeownership.

I've been at tech companies working in operations, marketing, and engineering teams for a long time. But I have recently fallen in love with the speed of no-code tools."

Empowering homeowners with customized support

"Owning a home is hard, especially for first-time homeowners.

You spend a ton of money, have limited experience, and are all of a sudden expected to manage this investment with very little help.

At The Home Dispatch, our mission is to empower homeowners and reduce the stress of owning a home by making it easier to discover products, find pros, and manage projects.

We offer 1:1 support for all of your home needs, and bring all of your projects into one spot to help you take that first step to find vendors and products.

Our platform offers multiple mediums to talk to your dedicated concierge. Your expert will help you understand everything that needs to be done, design choices, vendors, budgeting, and payment."

The tech stack

"No-code tools speed up our noncompetitive tech stack development components. This allows our engineering resources to focus on AI to help power our concierge experience.

We have stitched together many tools to help us build our app.

Webflow powers our homepage and landing pages. The speed for SEO and the integrated CMS allows us to quickly spin up landing pages to test marketing messages and add to our blog.

Our main app is powered by Bubble. We've found it to be the most flexible and robust solution. We can move lightning fast through iterations and scale our offering.

We use;

• Segment for our customer data platform
• Intercom for chat
• Front for centralized inbox
• Klaviyo for marketing emails
• Sendgrid/Twilio for transactional emails and SMS
• Calendly for scheduling video calls.
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It sounds like a lot, but the best part is that the setup for these tools is so fast. And the maintenance is easy!"

Be wary of feature creep

"Be wary of feature creep with your MVP.

The goal is to get feedback from customers. If the feature is necessary for feedback — great. If it's to optimize an experience, it can probably wait until after you have customers.

Conversely, always be shipping. One of the great things about no-code is the speed of development. Let your users feel this benefit by constantly shipping new (necessary) features."

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📺 Tutorials

👉 How to build a 2-sided marketplace using Softr

Two-sided marketplaces — like Airbnb, Upwork and Etsy — are platforms for sellers and buyers to list and purchase products and services. This tutorial teaches you how to build your own marketplace for property rentals using a Softr template. View this tutorial.

👉 How to use themes in the Super builder

This tutorial walks you through how to add on a theme to a Super.So site, powered by Notion, using the new builder. View this tutorial.

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🧑‍🏫 Courses

Students of our latest No-Code Fundamentals course have been busy knocking out some amazing projects. Here are a few from the last week:

Robin 🏗️ @rsharma_uxui Testing @AdaloHQ for this weeks assignment for the @makerpad's no-code fundamentals cohort. What's your optinion? Does the world needs an app where you can keep track of your favorite surf spots, and experience new ones and where can interact with surfers etc.? Any scaling ideas? pic.twitter.com/g5Gpsw7GMY February 16th 2022 0 Retweets 6 Likes

Mi(ria)m @ClontarfD3 Decided on @softr_io for many reasons. Top 3: 🎨 amazing UX/UI 🆓 free version includes using a custom domain 🆘 their support is top-notch...thank you David🙏 and apps look great on desktop, tablet & mobile (ok that's 4): #buildinpublic #nocode gifthorse.softr.app Mi(ria)m @ClontarfD3 Researched what tool to use. I found @_docwilliams Softr Vs Webflow video very helpful. He has a whole series of these: youtube.com/c/DocWilliams February 15th 2022 0 Retweets 2 Likes

Zack Steven @zacksteven I built a #nocode searchable archive of drip emails! Google Groups > @mailparser > Google Sheet > @glideapps #BuildInPublic @makerpad #MPNC5 driply.email Check it out! Feedback welcome February 15th 2022 3 Retweets 7 Likes

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🚀 Community Projects

​bardeen.ai has launched on Product Hunt, by Artem.

"Hey Makers! After 1.5 years in the semi-stealth mode we have publicly launched Bardeen today. Please check it out and let me know what you think! 🚀"

​No Code Mentoring Meetup 2/23 5pm ET, by Ray Deck.

"We're having our next No-Code Group Mentoring meetup this coming Wednesday at 5pm EST. We have been at this for over two months of excellent meetups. [...] All are welcome! https://lu.ma/v1st3q5l"

​Project planning workspace for two members, by Evan Joyal.

"I'm building a marketplace with webflow, I'd like to be able to give member access links so that they can plan their projects together. Something where they can plan tasks, add Gantt charts, comment, add files, chat, etc. I was going to use teamwork.com for this (mobile app is a huge plus) since their plan allows for two collaborators at no extra cost "per user" monthly cost. However [...] Any suggestions on a better way to do this?"

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💼 Jobs

​Bubble.io Developer – AlphaBrook

​Freelance Content Writer – Memberstack

​Operations Automagician – KeeperDAO

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🐦 Tweet of the Week

Justin Welsh @JustinSaaS How to build your first 2 income streams: (without knowing how to code) 🧵 February 15th 2022 587 Retweets 3,641 Likes

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If you have a great story to tell that you think the no-code community would be inspired to read, we'll publish it on our blog and feature it in this newsletter. Send us an outline.

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Cheers!
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Ben & the Makerpad team ✌️