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No code Stacks
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No Code Web App
What does it do?
Remetea: An app to help you find the tea to help with any symptom.
Budget Meal Planner: Free Meal Plans Every Friday
Front End: Remetea: carrd.co
Budget Meal Planner: Wix
Front End Notes: Notes from the Maker: “Wix is the website build I chose to go with since I could get the website up in just a few hours. I chose Wix because they offered ecommerce and membership features.” - Dianna
Back End: Remetea - Coda
Budget Meal Planner - Mailchimp
Back End Notes: Used coda for the logic around recommending different variations of tea depending on the user preference.
Budget Meal Planner - “My project is mainly based around a newsletter. Mailchimp takes care of that easily for me.” - Dianna
Front End Output: Remetea - coda
Budget Meal Planner - Mailchimp
Front End Output Notes: Remetea, can get results within code application. Budget Meal Planner users get weekly 7 day planned meals every Friday.
What does it do?
Measures you burnout and gives you recommendations on how to move forward. Measures your burnout out by taking a quick online quiz.
Front End: Coda
Front End Notes: Coda is used for the online quiz and the form for email submission from the user.
Back End: Coda
Back End Notes:
Front End Output: Email
Front End Output Notes: Users can input their email to be sent an email with their results.
What does it do?
#RequestforProduct is a crowdsourced directory of product ideas people wish exist.
✔ #RequestForProduct got the runners up spot at PH's Makers Festival under Everything Else category.
Front End: Typeform, Table2site
Front End Notes: Typeform is used to gather product ideas and submit them from the main #requestforproduct landing page. “Table2site give the ability to build elegant sites with cards, lists and filters. The best use of the platform is when you curate useful, meaningful content. You can tweak the design of the platform. The more creative the better the product is.” - Sharath.
Back End: Airtable
Back End Notes: “Airtable acted as a CMS where I mapped the content to key-value pair which reflects on the front end visual template.” - Sharath
Front End Output: Table2site>Twitter
Front End Output Notes: “Users can then explore the idea in detail from comments, links etc.” - Sharath
What does it do?
Makerpad is the best no-code platform for professionals & creators. Develop skills, build things and get hired.
✔ Explore the best no-code tools
✔ Learn how to build powerful applications
✔ Get hired in no-code companies or non-tech roles
Front End: Webflow
Front End Notes:
Back End: Airtable, stripe, zapier, Slack
Back End Notes:
Front End Output: Convertkit, Webflow
Front End Output Notes:
What does it do?
Get free car estimates for used cars.
Front End: Typeform, Import.io
Front End Notes: "The team first used Import.io to parse the car pricing data, and put it in a Google Sheets spreadsheet. We were abe to get publicly available information about car pricing and make it easily searchable, but they didnt have that tech in the beginning so they turned to automation with import.io." " Then they built a Typeform form where customers could send in a car pricing inquires and used Zapier with email automations to send notifications to their team to find care pricing for users."
Back End: Google Sheets, Zapier, Mandrill, Manual work by Human
Back End Notes: "They'd planned to build a Mandrill integration with Zapier to automatically send out car pricing, but for Startup Weekend their team was manually checking prices -the only part of the process not automated."
Front End Output: Mailchimp
Front End Output Notes: "They'd planned to build a Mandrill integration with Zapier to automatically send out car pricing, but for Startup Weekend their team was manually checking prices - the only part of the process not automated."
Credit Zapier Blog for this information.
What does it do?
Art Recommendation app that generated $12,000 in sales.
Front End: Strikingly, Typeform
Front End Notes: "The Kollecto experience starts with the Typeform form, where customers select their favorite types of art and enter their contact details."
Back End: Zapier, Google Sheets, Google Scripts, Human Task, Survey Gizmo, Pipedrive
Back End Notes: ""Zapier then sends that data to a Google Sheets spreadsheet, where Google Scripts help categorize users and show which art types to recommend.""
""Art advisors on the Kollecto team then add art to a SurveyGizmo survey and their Campaign Monitor emails include a customized link to the survey...(for ea customer)"
Front End Output: Campaign Monitor Email
Front End Output Notes: ""Art advisors on the Kollecto team then add art to a Survey Gizmo survey, and their Campaign Monitor emails include a customized link to the survey that sends each customer to the new art that'd fit their profile based on the Google Sheets data."
Credit Zapier Blog for this information.
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Stacks Made with Code
These tech stacks for side projects and Indie Maker Apps that are made with code. To see stacks made with no code choose the "Code Free Stacks" button.
Web Apps made with Code
What does it do?
Add reminders in a few taps. Android app built to allow users to easily build a to do list.
Front End:
App: Android (Android SDK, Firebase SDK)
Maker Front End Notes:
App: Android (Android SDK, Firebase SDK) Web landing page: HTML + CSS, based on Bootstrap
Web version of the app is not in the works yet.
Back End:
Firebase (Firestore, Functions, Hosting)
Maker Back End Notes:
Firebase (Firestore, Functions, Hosting)
Front End Output: App notifications
Maker Front End Output Notes:
No email or other front end used besides the actual UI of the app or app notifications.
What does it do?
NoHQ - Learn how to build a great remote team.
Dominic is building next project with same stack (coming soon)
Front End:
TailwindCSS
Maker Front End Notes:
Both web apps NoHq.co and the newest app is built with TailwindCSS. This Maker decided to use TailwindCSS because “went with whatever you’re most comfortable with, not what’s the most cutting edge...and when using tailwind ⭐️ “don’t forget to include a small JavaScript snippet for toggling the mobile navbar. Always forget it:)”
Back End:
Python, Django, Gunicorn, Nginx
Maker Back End Notes:
This Maker said, “For Django: ⭐️ remember to set up SMTP servers or Sentry or you won’t realize that there are issues on your site.”
Front End Output: SendGrid, Mailchimp/Mailjet, Stripe, Memberstack (only nohq.co)
Maker Front End Output Notes:
SendGrid for email, Mailchimp/Mailjet for Newsletters, Stripe and using Memberstack (only for nohq.co)
What does it do?
RemoteML - The best place to find Remote work in Machine Learning, Data Science, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Get new jobs to your inbox daily.
Mentorcruise - 1 on 1 tech mentor ship. Break into tech, amplify your skills, & fast-track your career-growth.
Intravert.co - The easiest way to monetize your community. We allow you to sell custom ad spaces on-site and monetize your community through privacy-preserving and ethical ad spaces.
Front End:
Bulma
Maker Front End Notes:
All three web apps use Bulma on the front end. This Maker decided to use Bulma because at the time of development was the most comfortable “went with whatever you’re most comfortable with, not what’s the most cutting edge”
Back End:
Python, Django, Gunicorn, Nginx
Maker Back End Notes:
This Maker said, “For Django: ⭐️ remember to set up SMTP servers or Sentry or you won’t realize that there are issues on your site.”
Front End Output: SendGrid, Mailchimp/Mailjet, Stripe, PayPal
Maker Front End Output Notes:
SendGrid for email, Mailchimp/Mailjet for Newsletters, Stripe, PayPal (only MentorCruise)
What does it do?
Keeps track of my social accounts and sends me an email every Monday.
Front End:
Next.js 2.0
Front End Notes:
Web app built with Next.js 2.0 (open source)
Back End:
Now 2.0, Express, Bull, Redis Labs
Back End Notes:
Hosted on Now 2.0 (Sid is on the $15 plan), API built with Express (open source), Queues managed by Bull (open source), Queue
Front End Output: SendGrid, Sentry
Front End Output Notes:
Emails sent by SendGrid (free tier), Errors go to Sentry (free tier)
Maker: Pieter Levels
Product Name: Taylor
Type:MVP
Type: B2C
What does it do?
Automated travel assistant that runs on Telegram.
Front End:
Typeform
Front End Notes:
Back End:
Zapier, FanceyHands
Back End Notes:
It’s tied together with a Typeform form and Zapier, using a custom developer integration Levels built on his own.
Front End Output: Telegram
Front End Output Notes:
Credit Zapier Blog for this information.
Marketplace made with Code
What does it do?
A marketplace for "Free & premium curated fonts, graphics, templates, mobile app designs & UI Kits we offer"
Front End:
JQuery, turbolinks, vanilla JavaScript
Front End Notes:
“Our application is an external tool as most of the pages are visible to visitors without an account. We wanted to build the website without any issues for SEO so we just did not bother adding anything fancy. And also when we started there was no vue.js or react. AngularJS was the new fancy tool but seemed like overkill.” - Razvan
Back End:
Ruby on Rails Framework, PostgreSQL, jQuery
Back End Notes:
“We loved the simplicity of RoR when we built it so we did a fast website to showcase our designs. We built it from there. No need for a NoSQL database, we only have caching and postresSQL.” - Razvan
Front End Output: MailerLite for sending newsletters
Front End Output Notes:
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tools & Apps
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no code tools & Apps
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Marketplace
Product and Maker
Studiotime.io
Front End Stack
Sharetribe
Back End Stack
Sharetribe
Front End Output Stack
Web App
Product and Maker
Tinderbot
Front End Stack
Typeform
Back End Stack
Google Sheets
Zapier
Mailchimp
Front End Output Stack
Mailchimp
Twilio
Product and Maker
Car Values
Front End Stack
Typeform
Import.io
Back End Stack
Google Sheets
Zapier
Mandrill
Human Interaction
Front End Output Stack
Mailchimp
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tools & Apps building with code
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Product and Maker
metrics.coffee
Front End Stack
Next.js 2.0
Back End Stack
Now 2.0
Express
Bull
Redis Labs
Front End Output Stack
SendGrid
Sentry
Product and Maker
Taylor
Front End Stack
Back End Stack
Zapier
Fancy Hands
Front End Output Stack
Telegram
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Front End
Forms
Forms
Overall Likelihood to Recommend
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Typeform
70 Net Promoter Score
90 Maker Net Promoter Score
Google Forms
70 Net Promoter Score
70 Maker Net Promoter Score
70 Net Promoter Score
Landing Page
Overall Likelihood to Recommend
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Carrd
100 Maker Net Promoter Score
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FORMS
Value to Cost
5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #1 of 2 products
Customer Service Helpful
4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆ #1 of 2 products
Lots of Bugs? Issues?
3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️☆☆ #1 of 2 products
Ease of Integration
4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆ #2 of 2 products
Documentation
3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️☆☆ #2 of 2 products
Ease of Use
3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️☆☆ #2 of 2 products
Reviews by Verified Makers
Overall Likelihood to Recommend:
9/10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆
Overall fantastic product that does so much more than Google forms. Easy to integration, and have seen a ton of improvement in the form builder. Before it was very clunky, and difficult to use. New design is much more user friendly. I would say my biggest gripe is cost. At a basic tier of $35 dollars per month I would recommend using their freemium of google forms when you are testing out an idea. Otherwise it will burn a hole in your pocket quick. Once you know what you want to build this is your tool because it will give you a much more finished type of product and be able to do a things with it that would be impossible to do if you are not a developer. Has a free tier for basic, but there is a larger learning curve for using the product than Google Forms.
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