Did you build anything using no-code tools?
Sharath Kuruganty
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Drop your lessons and tips from your experience of working with no-code tools!
Bonus points if you suggest a tool that can be helpful with specific tasks.
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Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen@ebrahimkhalil
Write Invisible
Yes. https://www.producthunt.com/post.... Tool -I find using Stencil an easy way to create marketing images.
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Can't say more good things about no-code. I worked in big tech for several years as a PM and we could have saved a lot of time/money by spinning up new apps using no-code before making decisions on whether to invest with an eng team.
Great website here to see what tools are best for your use case: https://www.nocodesetup.com/
I am currently using Softr.io and Airtable for an app I hope to launch on Product Hunt soon.
At Desking we've built most of our two apps using Bubble (https://desking.app/).
It's quite versatile to build with and we love that we haven't had to consider any of the underlying architecture.
It takes a few months to really learn how it works. Our apps are becoming more and more complex in their logic and sometimes we would like to be able to "peek under the hood" to see what exactly is going on. Especially working with external APIs can be frustrating.
We have had to move some parts of the logic outside of Bubble (to Azure) and probably will move away from Bubble as we grow.
I would definitely recommend checking it out! It does offer a lot more than Webflow when it comes to working with data and app logic.
Uncoop
@praatikainen We've been super impressed at the functionality capabilities of Bubble while working on our legal tech app .. The ability to rapidly iterate just can't be beat
Yes, pretty new to the nocode scene. But i have tried a hand at https://www.producthunt.com/post... and https://www.producthunt.com/post....
https://www.100daysfeaturereques... is what i built using Webflow. One hard thing is to shift your designs from figma to webflow. Webflow enabled me to build responsive websites, providing hosting and also help in data capture.
Wire Flow
Built deahunter.com using Automatio, Zapier, Webflow, Outseta, Google Sheet
We use Tally combined with other no-code tools to automate our own startup (a bit biased here as I'm a co-founder):
- We collect user feedback with Tally forms and automatically sync it to our Notion backlog
- Our help center and showcase page is built with Notion, and hosted plus customized with Super (https://help.tally.so)
- Personal website built with Tally (https://filipminev.com)
Why do we use no-code tools? Easy, fast, and budget-friendly!
Airtable! I've built a marketing database, books database, plant tracker and lots more!
@terencedaniels1 yeah it can do lots of different things!
FormBlob
I've built a no-code platform for building beautiful forms or any data collection interface at https://formblob.com. Use cases range from creating e-commerce stores (with complete order management tools) to multipage flows ala Typeform to transactional long forms. Would love any feedback!
DIY Startup School for Solopreneurs
launching our bubble + webflow ebook marketplace on jan 10. i'd say the biggest thing i learned about no code is try to pick one platform and stick to it? we had to do some pretty messy integrations between bubble and webflow that break in a lot of places and make for a less than perfect ux
I've built 2 apps using Coda.
If you want ability to work with complex flows and manage complex data without code, Coda is awesome solution.
I built fidlio.com using Bubble. The landing page is just a WordPress site, but the web app is fully built with Bubble.
By the way, Fidlio is a tool for SaaS, to gather feedback and feature requests from their users and help them plan their roadmap.
One of my fav no-code tools is Webflow: amazing community and great learning content (makes you laugh out loud kind of great: ).
Webflow is especially powerful with Flowbase (https://www.flowbase.co/).
I built multiple websites in the past months. Just released the newest one for Wonderpath: https://www.wonder-path.com/
The best way to learn is to start building. And my tip is to interact with the community: check out forums, post questions on Twitter. I believe we're still in the early days of no-code and early users can really help move these tools forward: share ideas, challenges, and any workarounds you discover.
@anil_meena21 runs a community for no-code building. He puts out new tutorials every week and also an AMA on Thursdays.
nocode.pensil.in
Used to work for a company that built almost 100 websites on Webflow. A great tool for pixel-perfect web pages!
Also, some time ago I made myself a CV on Readymag, it was pretty easy to figure out and I did it really quickly. Though I heard from many people that it can get buggy...
Really want to try this one https://cargo.site/, heard it's pretty awesome and makes good automatic responsive design,
I'm pretty new to the no-code game since I love to code things. However, sometimes it's just so much easier and less time consuming to use no-code tools.
A good example for this are landing pages: each time you work on a new product, you need a landing page. But it's so time consuming to build a fast, converting and great looking landing page.
So I'm now using https://fabulous.so to build landing pages for all my projects. (I'm the creator of fabulous.so, since I wanted to solve this exact problem :p).
I'm excited to hear which no-code you are using!
Databar.ai
Launching soon!
I might be a bit biased but I'm a big fan of no-code. Built my first landing page with Wix, used Airtable to build bases, Sheety to test a no-code backend, and a few others I can't remember now. Now working on a no-code tool of my own (www.databar.ai). :)
Marketing4Makers Community
I built several tools with no code. I love it because I can ship an idea in a few days and make it public. That's the best market validation ever!
I created:
- https://spreadtheworld.net - a database of 400+ places to post your startup (Made with airtable, flurly and Zapier)
- https://remoteFR.com, a job board with Table2Site and Airtable. Took me less than 2 days to build!
- http://m4m.so - A Marketing4Makers community. Made with Discord and Flurly. I'll add some knowledge base soon, it will be powered by Notion!
I also created a marketplace with Bubble to validate your ideas called IdeaHunt. But its a dead project
Thursday
I made my personal website (https://almost.design) last year using blocs (https://blocsapp.com), a no code website builder based on bootstrap. Highly recommended if you plan on making a basic website.
Just starting out my career in design, this helped me learn the basics of web dev, which in turn helped me build this website (https://thursday.social) with complete ownership and control over my design.
I'm learning integromat and learning how to build workflows :)
Summer Bod 2020
Trying to build a searchable, filterable database, but getting stuck. I think Airtable will work for the backend, but don't know how to connect it to the front end.
Summer Bod 2020
@krisztian_poka that would be great. What tools would you recommend. I am thinking Airtable and Softr right now?
@krisztian_poka @joshdance depends on product. Softr, Bubble, AppGyver(100% free), Draftbit, Adalo, Thunkable, ... the list never ends :)