Welcome fellow NoCoder!

July 15th Discover NoCode issue #09 has:

• Tool - Quickbase

• Leader Spotlight - Doc Williams

• Community & Resources - No Code Founders

• Story - How to start learning to build with NoCode

• Hackathon - Join the Discover NoCode Hackathon starting on Aug 5th!

Tool

Quickbase

Quickbase is how Sterling and I got into NoCode! It was founded in 1999 and was originally made and owned by Intuit before they spun off on their own.

Strengths:

• Robust roles and permissions.

• Very robust form builder.

• Table sizes are based on total storage without a set row limit.

• Built in automations that mitigate the need for Make/Zapier.

• External API access lets you integrate other platforms you may be using.

Weaknesses:

• Clunky for anything but raw data management.

• Difficult and time consuming to set up relevant user notifications.

• Mobile app is difficult to use.

• Built on ASCII backend. — UTF-8 character support is only visually rendered, the data is always stored in ASCII.

• Clunky for any kind of internal communications. Expensive file storage.

Leader Spotlight

Doc Williams LinkedIn ↗

Doc Williams is a content creator largely on Twitter and YouTube in the NoCode space. His content ranges from the mobile and web-app builder space all the way to how to support your SaaS products and communities with NoCode tools. Examples of the platforms he educates people on in live webinars are: FlutterFlow, WeWeb, Softr, Adalo, bubble, & toddle.

His live-webinar approach to helping people interested in these platforms gives you a very personalized feel to to his content. If you’re ever watching one of his live-streams be sure to say hi in the chat and ask questions!

Be sure to check out his YT channel where he continues to empower founders and companies on their NoCode journeys.

Community & Resources

No Code Founders

One of the earliest communities in the NoCode space founded in 2019 (you may have stumbled on them before) is No Code Founders. Joshua ↗ and Keanu ↗ Tiernan started NCF and run both their community and Humbl Studio. Mainly focused on bubble development, these two brothers kick some serious butt and have built one of the coolest NoCode communities and consultancies out there.

Along with their community they offer hourly assistance and they have one of the most comprehensive lists of NoCode tools out there. The cherry on top is they show how many people are actively using those tools!

All of that along with weekly webinars and other resources makes it one of the best places to start your journey when you’re looking to connect with other No Code Founders and developers.

Story

How to start learning to build with NoCode.

When I first got into NoCode it was hard to learn these platforms without having a plan or a project with a defined scope to focus on. I would constantly get lost in the sauce thinking about how cool an idea was along with all of its bells and whistles and end up not learning the NoCode platform.

Here’s how I fixed that:

• Choose an industry/skill/hobby that you have great knowledge in.

• Define the scope of an app that tracks something within that space.

• Stick to your scope and force yourself to learn how to use the software.

By selecting a space that you already understand, instead of worrying about how something should work you focus on learning to use the NoCode tool.

Examples:

My first app was a Purchase Order tracker in Quickbase for clients I was managing while in Procurement and Supply Chain Management. I knew the industry, I knew my role, the app I built streamlined what I was doing and gave my boss and clients up-to-date information on their purchases that they could access whenever they wanted to.

Another app made by one of our employees was a Pokédex that tracked all the details and information on each Pokémon like types and attacks! They also tracked the Pokémon that they had captured.

So, when learning a new NoCode platform build something in a space that you are familiar with so you can focus on mastering the platform and not the space.

Hackathon

Join the Discover NoCode Hackathon starting on Aug 5th!

We are hosting our next Hackathon in August! After getting feedback from the wonderful participants of our last hackathon we think we have found some magically fun stuff and we’re excited to host our next hackathon!

If you were part of our first Hackathon you are welcome to join us again!

If you’re new to it all in our Hackathons we help you evaluate and build a NoCode software from scratch in just 2 weeks! Here’s a breakdown below of each day.

Day 1

Identify:

• The 1 person (or company) you are solving a problem for

• The 1 problem you are solving, and

• The 1 specific way you are solving that problem (which will determine the software you create)

Day 2

Create a plan for your software stack that will

• Solve the problem,

• For your target,

• In the way you've decided to do it.

You will end this day with a plan and the list of softwares you'll tie together to build you NoCode application!

Days 3-7

Dive into each of the softwares in your stack and learn them.
Play with them.
Focus on the ones you know very little about.

We will be here to support you as best we can!

Days 8-13

Build the software MVP (Minimum Viable Product) using your newfound skills!
We will be available to help you get unstuck in our Discord server.

Day 14

Reach out to the person(s) you built the software for.

• Let them know you have a software for their problem.

• Get on a call with them, show off the software.

• Ask questions, get feedback.

• If possible, get their buy in! $$

• Iterate on your product to make it better.

Have a stellar week and keep on Discovering NoCode!

Have a tool or other idea you think we should highlight?
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