🎉 NATIONAL NO-CODE DAY + ✨ "Automatic" magic + 🚀 New no-code jobs!

📚 On the blog

🏠 How a data architect helps agencies automate their sales pipeline

‘Automatic’ is an agency that helps small businesses scale using automation and no-code, founded by David Flynn.

"Prior to going full-time with Automatic, I worked as a data architect at a manufacturing company where I learned the fundamentals of data management.

The skills I acquired there were instrumental in my ability to implement no-code solutions well.

My very first client in the no-code space was a marketing agency looking for platforms that would allow them to make their marketing metrics accessible to their clients without sacrificing privacy or too much manual effort."

Building a customizable platform on Bubble

"I used Bubble to build them a custom portal that allowed their clients to login and see their campaign metrics and trends.

Within a few months, I had agencies reaching out with very similar requests.

Each platform had slightly different requirements, but generally consisted of having a customizable onboarding experience and allowing the client(s) to see specific data based on permissions.

Behind the scenes, this required building admin functionality like inviting clients, setting up permissions and configuring the onboarding questions."

Turning a platform into a templated solution

"After building 2 or 3 of these custom portals for agencies, I realized it'd make more sense to build out a template and offer the implementation as a service to the agencies.

So far, it's generated lots of interest from agencies and exposed an opening in the market. While there are multiple "client portals" for agencies, few do everything that an agency needs.

I decided to take the best features from each of these client portal platforms, add in a few missing pieces, and launch a new product – Automatic!"

David @David__Flynn If you run an agency, you need a client portal. Why? Glad you asked. Let me explain 👇 January 18th 2022 27 Retweets 120 Likes

"The new platform includes configurable onboarding steps, client-based access to data or actionable items, and custom data reporting.

The primary tool we used to build the platform is Bubble, however we leveraged other tools to make it even more powerful.

We use Zapier and Integromat to make it easy for agencies to integrate new data for clients, Slack for notifications, and are considering using Xano on future versions to increase flexibility of the platform."

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📚 More from the blog

👩🏾‍⚖️ How a legal practitioner built a business to ease the process of relocation

No-code businesses are cropping up everywhere, with exciting opportunities to reach more people, iterate quickly, and ship products faster than ever before. This is a story of how a former legal practitioner built a business to make travel easier, entirely on no-code tools!

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🚀 Community Projects

​Help w/ Users&Permissions, by Chino Azcue.

"Hi Community! Hope all is well! I'm using Adalo to build a mobile app with 2, maybe 3 types of users/permissions. The idea is for User type 1, to be able to invite users 2 & 3 to view and interact with their account, and their account only (unless another User type 2, invites them as well) Any thoughts/ideas? I'm not so advanced, and not married to Adalo. Thanks!"

​Noodl is on Product Hunt with new features!, by Katherine Cerrato.

"Hey everyone! Noodl is featured on Product Hunt! The world's first professional design programming platform. We enables designers, innovators, and developers to create powerful web apps with visual programming. It is purpose-built to help explore and realise creative potential without limits. We’d love to have your support & feedback 😺"

​How Much Should I Charge for Advertising on My Website?, by Elliott Zelinskas.

"I launched nomadicteachers.com this week. It's been 72 hours and 312 international teachers have become members. Earlier today, I reached out to a tax expert that specializes in doing taxes for international teachers to help complete my own taxes. [...] My question is, how much should I charge him for advertising on my website?"

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💼 Jobs

​No-Code Product Owner – SIDE Labs

​Operations Automagician – KeeperDAO

​Technical Freelance Content Writer – Memberstack

​Bubble.io Developer – AlphaBrook

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🐦 Tweet of the Week

Zapier @zapier On March 11, we’re launching the first ever National No-Code Day! To kick off the celebration were holding a No-Code Contest with a chance to win a $25,000 cash prize for showing us what you’ve built with no-code. Enter today! #NationalNoCodeDay 🚀 ow.ly/X2wN50HY9Oz pic.twitter.com/5V6mypBAhQ February 22nd 2022 16 Retweets 42 Likes

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Ben & the Makerpad team ✌️