no-code

Have you considered looking for a mentor, a coach, or a mastermind group? In today's episode, Laura and Nathan look at some of the options available and discuss how they feel about them. 

Today we look at the advantages and disadvantages of being a non-technical founder. There are areas where we excel and perhaps even surpass our technical counterparts. So, can non-technical founders go the distance?

Some of the things we chat about today:

• Laura's recent holiday.
• Laura sees a 50% increase in sales since launching her new website.
• Feature Flux is advancing and Nathan realises that his SaaS might be more suitable for enterprise businesses. What will that mean for sales?
• Is it easier for non-tech founders to market their products?
• Would we want coding skills?
• The advantages of building a quick MVP as a developer.
• Doing everything as a solo founder is a lot to ask. 
• If you can't build your own product, what can you do? 
• Building an audience.
• Finding a co-founder.
• Paying a developer to build your MVP.
• Funding for your SaaS.
• No code as an option.
• The stairstep approach.
• Focus on one product or build multiple?
• Do new indy products inspire trust?
• Be mindful of the customers you choose. 

Links from today's show: 

Client Portal
Feature Flux
The Bootstrapped Founder
Reform
Close
Castos
Rob Walling
Tiny Seed
Calm

How much are you willing to risk when it comes to building your business? It's something we discuss at length today. With Laura squarely on one side of the field and Nathan on the other, is there any middle ground?

Funding for indie businesses. Is it an option? Is it a good option to reduce risk? After hearing of Llama Life's recent funding, we dove into the topic.

https://llamalife.co/
https://twitter.com/threehourcoffee
https://deployempathy.com/
https://www.reform.app/

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast.

In this episode from The Founder Hotline project, KP interviews serial entrepreneur, Chairman of VaynerX, CEO of VaynerMedia and the Creator and CEO of VeeFriends Gary Vaynerchuk popularly known as Gary Vee.

Here he shares his expertise as a seasoned successful entrepreneur, answers pressing questions from listeners and talks about topics such as:

● Moving on from failures and channeling humility  

● Getting the ‘right timing’ for selling

● Dealing with unhappiness and rejection

● The stress of a being a founder 

● Developing a healthy relationship with time

● Prioritizing time and managing time

● Soft skills that make a great founder

● What role does kindness play in building Gary’s success?

● Optimism and positivity

● Finding empathetic and kind entrepreneurs

● Turning fear into common sense, practicality, and humility

● Gary Vee’s Special Announcement

Build In Public Podcast is an interview show where KP chats with ambitious startup founders, CEOs, and top Internet creators to unpack their stories, insights, and lessons.

Thanks for listening!

Links:

Gary’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/garyvee

GaryVee’s Discord!: https://www.garyvee.com/discord

KP’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisiskp_

KP's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/KarthikPuvvadaKP

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast.

In this episode, KP visits Day One’s Founders Found Podcast as a guest which is hosted by Jake Hurwitz. The original episode was published at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k7C34Njif4&t=1s

Thankful to Jake for such incredible questions and turning this into one of my favorite interviews ever. Hope you’ll enjoy this one!

In this interview, KP and Jake sit down and take a deep-dive into an array of interesting topics such as:

● KP’s definition of what building in public is and how it’s done

● Leveraging the scale of the internet through authenticity

● Why KP chose Twitter as his main platform to build in public

● The reason why he decided to build in public

● KP’s backstory on his journey before he discovered No-code

● How No-Code is the gateway to Code 

● Advice to first-time founders who overthink their MVP

● The value of involving your audience in building your product

Build In Public Podcast is an interview show where KP chats with ambitious startup founders, CEOs, and top Internet creators to unpack their stories, insights, and lessons.

Thanks for listening!

Links:

Join Day One community: www.joindayone.com

Day One’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DayOneD1

Jake Hurwitz’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/HurwitzJake 

KP’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisiskp_

KP's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/KarthikPuvvadaKP

Laura talks about how she grew her large audience back in the day and how one blog post (A Simple Web Developer’s Color Guide) for Smashing Magazine triggered a series of events that changed everything. 

Nathan talks about how he was thrown into freelance life thanks to the 2008 crash and later went on to build Nusii, a proposal SaaS for design agencies. His MVP cost $3000 and was awful!

One thing that doesn't seem to have changed is that content still seems to rule when it comes to building a business. Both Laura and Nathan used content from the start.

Sometimes being careful doesn't pay...at least in the case of Nathan who built Nusii even though all of his customer development interviewees told him they wouldn't use it!

What happened to forums, comment sections on blogs and design feedback sites?

Links:
https://www.bidsketch.com
https://zipmessage.com/
https://kickassfreelancing.com/
https://client-portal.io/
https://featureflux.com/
https://blogstatic.io/

Here's an excerpt from my new book Low-Code/No-Code: Citizen Developers and the Surprising Future of Business Applications.

More about Conversations About Collaboration:

• Support the show via Patreon.
• Contact Phil Simon.

BÖLÜM ÖZETİ

Ben kodlama bilmeden web sitesi veya uygulama yapabilir miyim? Evet, yapabilirsin. Peki bu sayede globale açılan, sadece çek bırak yöntemiyle globale çıkan bir uygulama yapabilir miyim? Evet, yapabilirsin. Peki milyon dolar paralara çıkabilir miyim? Evet, çıkabilirsin. Bunun dünyada örnekleri var. Kişisel ya da işle ilgili problemlerinizi çözecek uygulamayı, websitesini, yazılımı, hiç kodlama bilmeden üretmek mümkün mü? 1001 İş podcast 2. sezon 5. bölümde no-code toolları üzerine konuştuk.

BÖLÜM KAYNAKLARI

• Podcastte üzerine konuştuğumuz no-code tools zihin haritası

Show Notes

Show notes and a full transcript of this episode is available at opsy.work.

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Caro Griffin is on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Luis Vera is on LinkedIn. 

Matt is drinking port and finally offloading the operations of his business. Marc is drinking rum and coke and is questioning if the job of marketing that he dislikes so much is serving him. The guys discuss the definition of work and AI powered products.

Mentions:

• PowerImporter
• MemberRow

Get in touch!

• Marc’s Twitter
• Matt’s Twitter

Laura launches a new look for Client Portal and Nathan gets a senior developer onboard to help him build Feature Flux.

• Is content still the way to market a new product? 
• How to get access to your competitor's marketing strategies.
• Content creation is hard!  
• The dangers of shiny object syndrome.
• Laura gets back into freelance design work.
• Shiny Object Syndrome. How do you maintain focus on what matters?
• What are the best parts of starting a new project? 
• Multiple bets or one main product? Which is best?
• Is procrastination a self-defence mechanism? Are we scared of failing? 

Design Academy
Client Portal
Feature Flux
Double Your Freelancing

Jon Darbyshire joins me today. He’s the CEO and co-founder of SmartSuite. We talk about efficiency, automation, Notion, VC funding, how he started his company, and whether we’ll ultimately all wind up using a single app.

More about Conversations About Collaboration:

• Support the show via Patreon.
• Contact Phil Simon.

Expect more detailed summaries soon :)

Links from today's episode:

How to Build the Ultimate Productivity System (2022)

Pieter Levels: Making $2.7M A Year With No Employees

Building a second brain

Get in touch: podcast@thenontechfounders.com

Hello and welcome to The Non-Tech Founder's podcast. Join us for fortnightly conversations about running a business as a non-technical founder. Laura and Nathan will navigate the developer-dominated world of entrepreneurship, bootstrapping and beyond.

In this first episode, we give a quick intro to why we're doing this, a little about who we are and our backgrounds and what we're up to right now!

About Laura.
Laura is the founder of 3 products: Client Portal (a super simple way to store your clients’ deliverables), Design Academy (a design course for developers), and Project Pack (sets of templates and documents for freelancers and agencies). Occasionally, she still takes on design projects.

About Nathan.
Nathan is a UX designer by trade but has been creating his own products since 2013. Founder of Nusii (Online proposal software. Sold in 2019), author of What the UX! and Develop Your UX (a super simple course that teaches the basics of UX to developers) and currently building Feature Flux (Design version control for product teams).

You can find them here.

Laura's Twitter.
Nathan's Twitter.

Drop us a line here: podcast@thenontechfounders.com

James and I went down to sunny (sweaty) Orlando for Microsoft Power Platform Conference (MPPC) 2022. Apart from getting to see a great set of announcements, learn a ton, and meet up with past pod-friends we also got the chance to sit down and have a conversation with Charles Lamanna — hot on the heels of his keynote address. 

Join us for this Very Special Episode of Switched On, our chance to share Charles’ deeper thoughts on MPPC 2022 announcements. 

First, our own quick thoughts on MPPC 2022:

• James loved the enthusiasm. “Our industry is about to be turned upside-down.”
• I had big love for the announced collaborative editing feature in Power Apps, with coauthoring. Fusion teams are even more equipped now.

Then — in an effort to avoid falling into a nerd black hole of our own excitement — we jump to the live-on-the-scene interview with Charles. 

IT. WAS. SO. AWESOME. 

Here is a sprinkling of his wisdom. 

Highlights

• Charles loves the real-time coauthoring experience, same as me. Customers often have big development teams working on the same app — now think of it as the current Word or Excel. Your colleagues are there with you, making cool things happen quickly.
• Power Platform as a low-code platform is interesting in its comprehensiveness. Don’t forget that you’re doing a lot more than just Power Apps.
• James notes the Azure backdrop for Power Platform as a game-changer: “substrate”.
• There are “no cliffs” — there’s always an escape hatch to go one layer deeper on customizing and powering up apps. You can always drop into a deeper layer of code or functionality.

Charles Lamanna

• Approximately 25% of Power Platform users are professional developers, and they often collaborate with non-pro devs.
• Fusion teams, CoEs, etc — those are functionally customer innovations on top of the delivered platform.
• 7.4 million Power Platform developers. It’s only just beginning.
• Low-code development platforms in 3 years: 3 trends. Data [there’s a massive amount of data from every system, it’s not easy to put it all together → data poor to data rich, connectors], AI [from big data to big AI, “there will be more UI built for AI than for humans”], collaboration [all this great stuff is happening in tech — it’s still all about the people using it].
• AI is leaking into Power Platform in ways where you don’t see or know it. It’s just there, powering things.
• We talk about humans collaborating, in the future it’ll be humans and AIs collaborating.
• Charles: serverless is the now-future.
• Fun fact: Logic Apps come from an internal hackathon project at Microsoft called Wolfkrow (“workflow” backwards)

Money Quotes

Charles

That’s the amazing thing about platforms: you build it, and your mind is always blown by what people are able to do with it.

Power Platform has definitely entered the ‘flywheel is a blur’ stage…every quarter there’s a game-changing experience. [nod to Jim Collins]

I remember in 2013 what it felt like for public cloud. It feels exactly the same way for low-code in 2022.

Technology is what enables the feature, technology is not the feature.

James

Because it’s getting to a certain level of maturity it’s like…how far can we take this? The answer is: pretty far.

Paul

MPPC 2023: Field of Dreams

Keynote Speaker and Experiential Facilitator, Molly Grisham helps to build and sustain teams in a wide variety of industries. She believes that teams don’t grow apart, they die apart. She knows that elite high-performing teams in all industries get stretched and stressed by the demand to perform. She is passionate about helping teams to rediscover their strengths and restore their relationships, so they can rebuild their teams. 

With nearly two decades of experience as a College Soccer Coach and Communication Professor, Molly approaches her work as an educator. She meets people where they are and helps them move to where they want to be. 

Molly holds degrees in Communication from Belmont University, the University of Illinois, and Missouri State University. She has completed training as a Civil & Family Mediator, she is a Certified Experiential Specialist with the International Society of Experiential Professionals, and she is a Certified Myers-Briggs facilitator.

Molly is down-to-earth and compels her audience to participate in the learning process. She engages groups from the moment she steps in front of them and leaves them with tools and processes that they will use long after an event has ended. She knows healthier teams lead to happier humans, and happier humans lead to high-performing teams.

When not facilitating, Molly can be found at her favorite used bookstore and at various international restaurants in St. Louis. 

Read a full transcript and more at https://wecandothis.co/episodes/030

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Molly on Twitter → https://twitter.com/mollygrisham

Find Molly at https://mollygrisham.com

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EPISODE CREDITS:
Music by Darren King on Soundstripe

Show Notes

Show notes and a full transcript of this episode is available at opsy.work.

Connect with us

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Caro Griffin is on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Stephen Levin is on LinkedIn and Twitter. 

Marc is shipping a new PowerImporter feature before going on a camping trip. Matt is just about ready to start his product hunt preparation to market his slackbot. The guys discuss how they see the work they do today and how it fits in the era's of their lives.
Mentions:

• PowerImporter
• MemberRow

Get in touch!

• Marc’s Twitter
• Matt’s Twitter

Dr. Eugene K. Choi is a clinical pharmacist turned Certified Transformational Mindset coach that helps talented heart-driven leaders operate at their highest levels of clarity, energy and focus. With a background in clinical pharmacy, neuroscience, and business coaching, his unique science-backed process along with the use of groundbreaking technology helps entrepreneurs figure out how to dramatically improve performance, innovate dynamic solutions, and achieve their goals. His articles have reached over 9 million people and he has helped hundreds of leaders and heart driven entrepreneurs significantly transform their results at both a professional and personal level.

Read a full transcript and more at https://wecandothis.co/episodes/029

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Twitter → https://twitter.com/wecandothisco

Find Eugene at https://destinyhacks.co

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Twitter → https://twitter.com/seanpritzkau

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EPISODE CREDITS:
Music by Darren King on Soundstripe