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James Duffen was a part of our first No-Code Fundamentals course cohort. This is the story of how he used his passion for psychoanalysis and knowledge of no-code to build a membership site from scratch that helps people analyze dreams and interpret their meaning cohesively.

No-code platforms have immense potential to support the ever-changing fintech landscape with innovative solutions. Here's how two entrepreneurs built Strabo: The asset management platform for the global citizen, using Bubble and a handful of no-code tools!

Chris Dancy is not only ‘The Most Connected’ person on the planet, but his work in the intersection of technology and healthcare helps build a case for staying connected. Here's how he uses Airtable to find balance in the chaos.

Nitya Jain is a high-school student that attended a no-code workshop, learned how to build an app, and then created a platform to help people locate last-mile COVID-19 resources during the peak of the second wave in India.

No-code has opened doors for people to find the most interesting solutions to some pretty big problems. We were very impressed with what Nicolas Cabrignac was doing with no-code in helping companies improve employee satisfaction with actionable recommendations. His AI-powered platform has now made it into Techstars 2021!

The goal of no-code is to democratize software creation and make it accessible to everyone. Here’s how no-code is filling a need in Rwanda’s agricultural sector thanks to one innovative maker.

Here's a story of how a part-time emergency registered nurse and writer used no-code tools to launch a paid micro-community to help keep other writers accountable to consistently show up and create content. With no fancy landing page, and no-code, here's how Jerine did it!

Here's how the no-code movement will disrupt software and empower entrepreneurs, project managers, mid-large companies, freelancers, and even software developers to code less and build more.

Marco Mendes was looking for a way to spend less time at sea and more time at home, earning his money online. This is the story of how he went from minimal technical knowledge to taking a course to launching his own marketplace for boat sellers.

Without the ability to make, market, and sell, your business will likely fail. Unfortunately many budding entrepreneurs often lack at least one of these cornerstone skills. So what’s the antidote? Well there isn’t just one — there are six!

No-code has the potential to help social sector organisations and charities continue to make an impact. When we found out about Carefree and Joey’s work in building a completely no-code platform for them, we had to find out more.

Many of us agree that there's a lot you can do with no-code. But how many types of online business can you actually build and run without code? 5? 10? 100? We spun up this list of 30 businesses you could have running within 1 month, all using purely no-code tools.

There's a leaky pipeline of knowledge from expert communities to the outside world – too much knowledge remains locked in company walls and private exchanges. We call this ghost knowledge. Sari Azout has built a platform to facilitate the exchange of this knowledge using no-code tools and automations. Find out how!

We love highlighting and celebrating people that are doing awesome things with no-code. This is why we were super excited when we came across Nick Abraham’s work. He’s mapped out a super slick process to help agencies automate and simplify their client onboarding.

When a freelance graphic designer and fashion enthusiast decided to help conscious shoppers find slow fashion, sustainable brands using a no-code site built in two days, we were all ears. Here's what we learnt when we talked to Daniel Akang, founder of Eco-Catalogue.

By shining a spotlight on great businesses, anyone looking to launch their own can hopefully take what other successful entrepreneurs have done and use it to help drive success in their own ventures. We caught up with Caro Griffin, VP of OPs at Tech Ladies, a bootstrapped, member-driven community making in excess of $1m/year in revenue.

Marketing tools have come a long, long way since email was first invented. In this post, we take a look at some of the top email marketing software tools being used in 2021, and dive in to how tools like these can help you achieve great things with your sales and marketing.

What impact would it have if you could quickly tell the hot leads from the cold leads in your business? In this post we explore how, using email marketing, you can leverage smart automation through a self-paced course that can help you accurately qualify each new subscriber.

Overcoming an illness through naturopathy, Katie, a digital product manager, had big ideas for a business that would combine both her skillset and her passion for holistic health. But the technical development needed was holding her back, until she took a leap of faith and dived into no-code.

Each week we highlight a member from our community and share their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series. This week we are chatting to Adam Wiseman from Toronto, Canada.

Hoping to get to #1 after launching on Product Hunt, Pejman Pour-Moezzi and Michele Drabiniok — two Makerpad course students — tell us all about their human touch automation tool Reflective, and how the course sparked a collaboration that's propelled Reflective's success.

For a long time, developers have ruled the world. The holy grail has been to find a no-code solution that empowers customer-facing teams to create what they need without having to engage engineering. It has taken a long time, but the no-code movement is now here for frontend development. Candu's Jonathan Anderson explores the history of no-code up to the present day.

How do you go about choosing the best no-code tool for your needs? We asked our community and narrowed a long list down to 15 of the top no-code tools for website building, databases, app building, email marketing, automation, surveys, memberships, and community building.

Knowing how to get started with automation can be daunting when you can't see how it can be useful to you. In this post, we explore what 'automation' is, how to do it, and frameworks to help you identify where you can automate your work and business to help you save time, and reduce margin for human error.

This is the story of how one Makerpad member and a formidable team of creatives are building an app without code and developers, to give parents a helping hand and overhaul the screen time habits of kids and teenagers.

Tim Falls, an environmental activist and community builder from California, had been wanting to get his climate community project off the ground for a while. A lack of confidence and no-code knowledge held him back, until he found a program that helped him turn it all around.

Each week we highlight a member from our community and share their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series. This week we are chatting to Samuel Ludescher from Somerset, New Jersey.

If you're looking to build an app, software, or web-based business — or to streamline your biz ops through automation — hiring a no-code expert could be an effective way to save time, money, and frankly, a lot of headaches. We explore the benefits of hiring a no-code expert and where to source one in this post.

Each week we highlight a member from our community and share their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series. This week we are chatting to Max Joles from Portland, Maine. Max is an indie consultant over at MaxJoles.com and part time dev at 8020.

In the first of our Featured Stories series, we chat to Daisy Onobogu, Head of Networks & Community at Backed VC, on how she built an app entirely from scratch without code to grow and nurture the company's network and portfolio.

Each week we highlight a member from our community and share their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series. This week we are chatting to Amit Sarda from Pune, India. Amit is a Freelance Business Consultant at AmitSarda.biz.

Today we’re exploring the wonderful world of progressive web apps (PWAs, for short) — web apps that function as websites but provide an almost 100% native mobile app experience — and how no-code tools have made PWA development easier, faster, and more affordable than ever before.

Each week we highlight a member from our community and share their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series. This week we are chatting to Connor Finlayson from New Zealand. Connor is the Founder of Unicorn Factory, a marketplace for freelancers. 

In this series we’ll be sharing the no-code stack of a company or project, breaking it down into the component parts to show you behind the scenes to see how it’s all done! This week we are chatting to Ajay Goel from GMass. GMass is an e-mail marketing tool for GMail users.

If you run an ecommerce store, chances are that you use Shopify, arguably the most popular ecommerce tool on the market. In this post, we walk you through how you can use Parabola to automate your Shopify store — specifically how it can save time on your sales, marketing and inventory reports — all, of course, without code.

Each week we highlight a member from our community and share their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series. This week we are chatting to Ciaran O'Herlihy from Cork, Ireland. Ciaran works in Product Partnerships at Google. He is also the Founder at Adepty and LazerBird.

A definitive guide to no-code — everything you need to know about the basics of no-code in one place. Learn about product building vs. automation, real life no-code use cases, common terminology, popular no-code tools, and where to turn if you're looking to expand your no-code knowledge beyond just the basics.

Save your and your team's time by automating repetitive lead-qualifying tasks. In this post, we show you how to build a virtual AI assistant that can handle qualifying leads and record keeping, using Zapier, Twilio, Airtable, Chatparse.AI and Calendly.

Each week we highlight a member from our community and share their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series. This week we are chatting to Luke Walker from Berlin, Germany. Luke is a Product Marketing Manager at Next Matter.

Many who start their journey with no-code tend to become more familiar and comfortable with the world of code. In this post, we explore the coding languages recommended by Codecademy to learn if you want to graduate beyond no-code.

Getting past the beginner stage of writing a newsletter, where your doubt is at its strongest, can be a huge hurdle to jump. Using these shortcuts, you can start building your audience, polish your reputation, and crank up your visibility online.

Each week we highlight a member from our community and share their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series. This week we are chatting to Büşra Coskuner from Berlin, Germany. Büşra is a Product Management Consultant and Mentor at The Mentoring Club.

Each week we highlight a member from our community and share their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series. This week we are chatting to Daniel Díez from Barcelona, Spain Daniel is currently working on Failory, which shares stories about lessons learned from failed startups.

Zach Sims is the co-founder and CEO of Codecademy — a leading platform for learning how to code, with over 50 million students to date. As the gap between code and no-code continues to get smaller, we were curious to find out more about Codecademy and get Zach's take on building without code.

In this series we’ll be sharing the no-code stack of a company or project, breaking it down into the component parts to show you behind the scenes to see how it’s all done! This week we are chatting to Jaclyn Schiff from PodReacher. PodReacher provides content writing services for podcasters.

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series. This week we are chatting to Luke Marshall from Melbourne, Australia Luke is a Digital Marketing Consultant.

2020 catapulted the creator economy into the mainstream market. So now it’s not just early adopters embracing the ease of building businesses online — it’s everyone else, too. The opportunities for people who can’t code but want to build a life around the things we enjoy doing, have never been more abundant.

Each week we highlight a member from our community and share their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series. This week we are chatting to Tomas Laurinavicius from Lithuania. Tomas is an entrepreneur, designer, content marketer, and lifestyle blogger.

The simplest type of business that anyone new to no-code can start is a service based business. With the advances of no-code technologies the most efficient, streamlined and scalable service that you can build is a productized service.

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and current projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series. This week we are chatting to Inga from Essen, Germany Inga is building Orgfinder.com a directory for non-profits.

We’re incredibly excited to announce that Makerpad has joined Zapier. Our desire to democratize software, and push towards a future where people aren’t limited by a lack of coding knowledge, is a vision that unites Makerpad and Zapier.

8020 is an up-and-coming no-code agency a.k.a. product design studio, launched by Andrew Wilkinson and headed up by Matt Varughese. Here Matt tells us all about 8020, the future of no-code, and how 8020 is making waves in the no-code space.

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series. This week we are chatting to Angela Goodhart from Virginia

Even if you’re just starting out with no-code I’m sure that it has crossed your mind that with these new skills you have gifted yourself the potential to increase your income. Lots of no-coders decide they would love to make some extra money. Let's take a look to see how that's possible!

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series. This week we are chatting to James Haliburton from Sweden.

If you’re the owner of a community or a person in charge of your community’s well-being or growth, how your members are onboarded is a really crucial factor to consider. It could even be the difference between the success or failure of your community.

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series. This week we are chatting to Jakub Kliszczak from Wrocław, Poland

Substack's great, but what if you want full ownership of your content? By using a few no-code tools, you can publish a newsletter and email your subscribers in one click, take payments, and run a podcast.

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series. This week we are chatting to Christine Parfitt from Queensland, Australia.

We'd love to invite you to participate in the 2021 Makerpad No-Code Report. This is a chance for you to share your opinions and really help to shape the future of no-code.

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series.

We’ll take a fun look at some of the most common kinds of no-coders and what they are working towards. By looking at which type you identify with most it can help you to recognise your strengths and how you can contribute to other community members' successes.

By connecting a few tools, you can consistently promote your content automatically, without your ongoing manual input. We look at a few ways you can do this, without needing to code.

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series.

Web building apps are democratizing entrepreneurship and making building slick, professional websites quick, easy and convenient. We take an in-depth look at building a site and e-commerce store on iOS through Universe.

Do you have a passion for learning new tools and building projects? If so, you'll also love our Creators in Residence program too.

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series.

How no-code can become an integral part of your hiring process and how you can build a more productive team using no-code.

Building and shipping a job board and automating its workflow is an ideal way to earn money with minimal ongoing input. In this post we show you how you can launch your own job board without using code, and look at some ways to monetize it after launch.

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series.

An inside look at how Outseta changed their trajectory by improving the onboarding process to better serve no-code founders.

Formstack provides you with workplace productivity and automation tools. It allows you to digitize what matters and automate your workflows. 

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series.

Most popular content and a reflection on the year

As 2020 draws to a close, we look back over the last 12 months and have a go at predicting what might happen in 2021 and beyond.

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series.

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series.

Off the back of our newly released tool-path, 'How to build and manage a membership community with Gumroad', we look at why membership communities are driving huge revenue for entrepreneurs and creators, and how you can do the same for your business.

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series.

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series.

In this episode of the podcast we are joined by Dorna Moini, CEO and Founder of document automation platform Documate.

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series.

Augustin is the co-founder of Weglot, a product which allows you to make your website multilingual!

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series.

A quick recap of some of the most interesting things we've seen this week in no-code.

Paula is the COO and Co-founder of Palabra, an email automation platform that integrates with your existing tools to make advances email processes simple.

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series.

A quick recap of some of the most interesting things we've seen this week in no-code.

Hani is the CEO and Founder of Repurpose, a tool that allows you create your content once and distribute it everywhere. He is an expert is video content production and built Repurpose so that he could spend less time distributing content!

Each week we’ll be highlighting a member from our community and sharing their story, background and previous projects through our Member Spotlight blog post series.

Geoff Roberts is the co-founder of Outseta, a tool which combines multiple different types of functionality into one platform allowing you to launch your project faster.

Find out which no-code skills are most popular as we countdown our Top 10 Tutorials!

How Beecuz.org uses Outseta, Webflow, Airtable & Zapier to build their wellness platform

No-code is a way of building on the internet and automating processes without writing a line of code

Stackby gives you the building blocks of spreadsheets, databases and APIs in an all-in-one flexible platform. It allows you to plan, manage and automate your work.

Humberto is a Co-Founder and Product Owner of dashdash. Dashdash is a web-app creator with a spreadsheet interface allowing you to build Build powerful sales and marketing tools.

Hiten Shah is the co-founder of FYI, a company that helps you find your documents in 3 clicks or less. He previously co-founded CrazyEgg and KISSmetrics.

The Makerpad T30 Challenge turned out to be an incredible opportunity to make some new things and a great way to see the talent in the Makerpad community! Here is a round up of the challenge results & winners!

Connor Finlayson is the founder of Unicorn Factory, a no-code marketplace that connects businesses in New Zealand businesses to local freelancers.

David Adkin is the Co-Founder of Adalo, a platform that makes creating mobile apps as easy as putting together a slide deck.