The State of Makers - No code is about to take Makers by storm

@hnshah @marie_prokopets I believe you made your point about Productivity, totally makes sense now . Nice tool btw.

@hnshah Thanks for mentioning Zeroqode. We have some give aways and promotions. Product Hunters reach out to me directly if you are interested.

@hnshah @manojsurya3110 Thanks Manoj!

@hnshah @bentossell Thanks Ben! How could we not mention you? You're on the forefront of No-Code :)

@hnshah So wonderfully well done!

@marie_prokopets is the 260 responses a representative example? what was the methodology for the survey? from a quick read, the survey design seems iffy.

@tomfme The survey questions were not included on the report page, so I can understand why you might think it’s iffy without knowing exactly what we asked. Bias is something we take seriously both when we create the survey questions and when we analyze them. We made sure to get a variety of types of people answering the survey - from Makers to Non-Makers, including people at large and small companies (and those who work for themselves). This isn’t a typical market research style survey. This is based on responses to open-ended questions that we analyze “by hand,” as well as quantitative questions. If you’re looking for a market research style survey that’s all based on multiple choice responses, this isn’t it. This is closer to the type of research product people would conduct.

@tomfme @marie_prokopets I had taken the survey; it asked very relevant questions and I can see how those helped shape the report. Great job Marie!

@tomfme @irhymeth Thanks Arpit! 🙏

@irhymeth @marie_prokopets got it. thanks for clearing that up. i was curious about the survey design and wanted to understand the methodology because lots of folks are citing statistical measures from the survey (i.e. “Only 19% of Makers have built with No-Code”).

@hnshah @enthusiausted @rrhoover Me too - I thought the percent of people who had tried No-Code would be much higher. My biggest learning was that No-Code is really poised to grow based on the challenges people listed. Also I was surprised that Makers don't have a preferred habit that helps them make. The habits people listed were way more fragmented that I would have imagined. Perhaps No-Code will become one of those new habits that helps Makers test ideas and eventually launch them too.

@hnshah @marie_prokopets @rrhoover The biggest learning for me is that finding the time to execute on your plan is harder than anything else. Creating and selling your product can be really time demanding. It becomes even harder if you're working on multiple products or making on the side, while holding a full time job.
 And it's not only a matter of time. There are so many things you could be doing as a maker that it can become overwhelming. I knew that productivity is a challenge for every maker but reading through the answers helped me learn more about the why. I hope no code and low code tools can give back makers some much needed time!

@marie_prokopets @enthusiausted @rrhoover I was most surprised to see how popular Shopify was with Makers. Zapier taking the #1 spot seemed obvious to me and same with the popularity of Airtable. I didn't realize how much Shopify was being classified by Makers as a No-Code tool.

@hnshah @enthusiausted @rrhoover @marie_prokopets Would love to show all of you Koji, our new maker platform.

@dkb868 That's a great question. 8% did say they struggle with profitability.

@dkb868 @hnshah I too was surprised it wasn't higher - but I think other challenges took precedence. This was an open ended question, so we let people answer with their genuine challenges without prompting them, and then we categorized them.

@dimitry_solovyev Glad the report was useful! There are tons of ways to join the movement - you can start building products (like the manuals you mentioned), or start joining Maker communities and also learning more from all the No-Code resources out there too.

@marie_prokopets already doing it for years) Really liked your initiative so we've launched t.me/DAOLab for curating and developing new use cases. Invite you to join early adopters community. Open for exploring new platforms and sharing with solutions we master at. Feel free to contact me for invitation to our private workgroup.

@sungho we hope the insights can help the community to find ideas for new products to launch 💡

@hnshah @marieprokopets @5harath Thanks Sharath! Appreciate the feedback :) If you have any questions about the report let us know, we might have the answers based on the research we did :)

@pradipcloud Thanks Pradip! Glad you found it useful!

@arthur_tkachenko Awesome! Let us know if you have any questions or feedback :)