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In this episode of the podcast we are joined by Dorna Moini, CEO and Founder of document automation platform Documate. In this conversation we talk about: How Dorna made the switch from Lawyer to start-up founder Starting by helping with domestic abuse cases Scratching your own itch When to go big How Dorna views the no-code space And more I hope you enjoy this conversation with Dorna Moini!

Augustin Prot is the co-founder of Weglot, a product which allows you to make your website multilingual! We talk about: How Weglot came to exist Transitioning from finance into a startup Finding their first customers His perspective on the no-code space The shift to remote work Kite-surfing Where he’d live if he could live anywhere And much more! I hope you enjoy this conversation with Augustin Prot.

Paula Alcalá is the COO and Co-founder of Palabra, an email automation platform that integrates with your existing tools to make advanced email processes simple. In this conversation we talk about: - How Palabra came to be - The evolution of the platform - Joining an accelerator - Transitioning from education to tech - What's missing in the no-code space - and much more. We hope you enjoy this conversation with Paula Alcalá.

Hani Mourra is the CEO and Founder of Repurpose, a tool that allows you create your content once and distribute it everywhere. Hani is an expert is video content production and built Repurpose so that he could spend less time distributing content! In this conversation we talk about: - How Repurpose came to life - What Repurpose can do - Automating Work - Working Remotely - The No-code Space - and much more We hope you enjoy this conversation with Hani Mourra.

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. Otuseta brings together Billing, CRM, Email, Help Desk and Authentication into one place. In this discussion Tom and Geoff talk about: Why he built Outseta 1m 50seconds How using multiple different tools can become painful 3m 55seconds How he got into the no-code space 6m 13seconds What no-code is and how it’s changing 8m 48seconds Where no-code is going 11m 20seconds Addressing the question of scaling 12m 56seconds Lessons to be learnt from traditional software engineering inc version control 15m 07seconds What’s missing in the space 16m 52seconds Bootstrapping vs Raising Venture Capital 19m 18seconds New Funding Models 26m 02seconds The Tools Outseta replaces 27m 51 seconds Time vs Money Saved 32m 24seconds Remote Working with Twins 40m 33seconds What he would build if he wasn’t building Outseta 50m 10seconds What is he most excited about? 51:47seconds We hope you enjoy this conversation.

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. He also helped build 3 other digital businesses, Skin.pt, EatFirst.com and AirCourts.com In this discussion, Ben and Humberto Discuss: - Building with a no-code mentality - Why dashdash uses the spreadsheet as the foundation of their product - The major use cases for dashdash users

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. In this episode, Ben and Hiten discuss: - Experimentation in business and building digital products - Types of content that are useful to share today online - How content types affect attention and shareability

Connor Finlayson is the founder of Unicorn Factory, a no-code marketplace that connects businesses in New Zealand businesses to local freelancers. In this episode, Ben and Connor discuss: - Why Connor uses Airtable - Building a custom approval system for his marketplace - Connor's thoughts on Zapier and Memberstack (among other tools he uses)

David Adkin is the Co-Founder of Adalo, a platform that makes creating mobile apps as easy as putting together a slide deck. In this conversation, Ben and David discuss: - Adalo's origins - Selling to makers and creators - Creating a guiding principle and constrains in no-code

Taimur Abdaal is the co-founder and CEO of Causal. Causal helps you build financial models effortlessly and share them with interactive, visual dashboards in a way that everyone will understand. In this episode, Ben and Taimur discuss... - The main use cases for Causal at startups - The trend in engineering towards block based building. - Measuring your economic impact

Nicolas Sharp is the CEO & Founder of Attio, which is a fully customisable workspace for your team's relationships and workflows.  In this epsiode, Ben and Nicholas discuss... - How Attio helps you set up a notification system for your internal processes and team's workflows. - Remote work organizations and why workflows matter. - Where the no-code industry is going according to Nicholas.

Arvid Kahl is the founder of The Bootstrapped Founder and author of Zero to Sold. Previously, Arvid successfully built and sold Feedback Panda in 2019 after growing it to $55k MMR. During this podcast replay from our live workshop, Tom and Arvid cover: - Scaling your SaaS business - Identifying a problem - Finding your first users - Selling your business

Arisa Amano is the co-founder and CEO of Internal, an internal tools platform that allows anyone to create without code, reducing dependence on engineering and enabling businesses to do more with less. Previously, Arisa was the Chief Product Officer and co-founder at Harbor, a cryptocurrency firm, and the VP of Product at Zenefits, a healthcare startup. Prior to that, she held product and marketing leadership roles at Yammer, Microsoft, VMware and MTV Networks. Bob Remeika is the co-founder and CTO of Internal, a no-code internal tools platform. As an engineering leader with over 20+ years of experience, he’s seen firsthand the difficulties in prioritizing and resourcing internal tools projects, which spurred him to co-found a company to address the issue. Previously, Bob was the co-founder and CTO at Harbor, a cryptocurrency firm, and the VP of Engineering at Zenefits, a healthcare startup. Prior to that, he held various architect and engineering roles at Yammer, Grockit, Razorfish and Yahoo. In this episode, Ben, Bob and Arisa discuss... - Why Internal helps solve a crucial problem that Bob and Arisa saw during their time at Zenefits. - Why team tools don't typically get as much love, and how Internal can help. - How no-code lends itself to help you understand more technical aspects of work.

Albert Santalo is the founder of 8base, and is joined by their Product Manager Sebastian Scholl. 8base allows you to connect your enterprise data sources and expose them through a unified GraphQL API. In this episode, Ben, Albert and Sebastian discuss... - The back end of low-code and no-code - Developers in the no-code space - Micro-SAAS and Digital Agencies in no-code/low-code

Ankit Gordhandas is the founder and CEO of Intersect Labs. Intersect Labs offers services that enable intelligent decisions involving machine learning from spreadsheet data in 3 clicks. Intersect Labs started with the simple idea that anyone who wants to make accurate predictions should be able to do it themselves. In this episode, Ben and Ankit discuss... - The convergence of no-code and data science - Is data science just for big companies, or for startups? - Using data as a non-technical person - Using Intersect to predict, analyze and forecast with your data.

In this new series, Makerpad Deep Dives, we break down real-world solutions for you to clone inside your own organization.  Today we have David Peterson from Airtable on to discuss how Makerpad and Airtable created a custom solution for Cottage – a San Francisco based company that helps home owners design, permit, and build Accessory Dwelling Units such as a guest house. Cottage came to us with a problem that many companies, especially startups face: how to manage, track and automate complex projects.  Using Hubspot, Airtable, and X.ai, Makerpad helped build a solution for them to automate & streamline complex, multi-party project management. In this episode, Ben and David Discuss... - Using Airtable for Project Management - Airtable integrations and the process of building solutions for startups. - More details on the process of solving real problems for freeing up time in organizations using no-code tools.

Sid was one of the first hires at Teachable (which recently sold for ~$250m) and the VP of Product there. Sid started Circle in October last year with two other co-founders, both ex-Teachable. Circle is the modern community platform for creators, and is used by Makerpad (!). Other creator communities on Circle include Pat Flynn, Tiago Forte, David Perell, and Anne-Laure Le Cunff. In this conversation, Ben and Sid discuss... - Committing to new feature vs. keeping from technical debt - Using integrations to give your users super powers - When do you know when it's time to launch your app?

Greg’s an entrepreneur and VC currently running Late Checkout, a startup studio/agency trying to create startups by focusing on unbundling Reddit. He previously founded Islands (sold to WeWork). In this episode, Ben and Greg Discus... - Community vs. Audience - Experimentation using no-code - The Studio model for building and launching products

Max Lind is the GM of 8020. 8020 is a new agency focused on helping great companies move faster, without code. In this episode, Ben and Max discuss... - Using a wide variety of tools for your build and their tradeoffs - Transparency in building as an Agency - How 8020 works with Tiny Capital

Wade Foster is the CEO and co-founder of Zapier. Zapier is a productivity tool that connects over 1,300 of the apps you use every day and automates the tedious, repetitive parts of your job, so you can be more productive at work. This product caters to individuals, small businesses, or smaller teams within larger organizations. In this episode, Ben and Wade discuss: - How anyone can pick up the skill of Zapier - Scoping opportunities: Code, or no-code? - Scaling a remote company to over 300 employees

Moritz is a tech entrepreneur with deep knowledge B2B SaaS. Right now, Moritz is in the midst of starting his fourth startup Refiner, a lead scoring application for inbound sales teams. During the last four years, Moritz successfully bootstrapped two startups (Mailparser and Docparser) from zero to acquisition. In this episode, Ben and Moritz discuss: - The process for content marketing to more technical creators. - Extracting data from documents and email - Automating methods for learning from leads in customer acquisition

Sagi Eliyanu is the CEO and Co-Founder of Tonkean, the Operating System for Operations Teams. Along with his partner, Offir Talmor, Sagi founded Tonkean in 2015 to create an adaptive, no-code platform that helps operations teams solve inefficiencies and challenges for their unique set of processes, people, and systems. Prior to Tonkean, Sagi held executive engineering roles at Jive Software. Sagi served for four years in Unit 8200, the Israeli Defense Force’s elite intelligence agency, and he applies much of what he learned from developing data and information systems for the agency to his work at Tonkean. In this episode, Ben and Sagi discuss: - Why work still feels so manual today - Empowering all employees to be makers - How will the no-code and RPA space hit the mainstream?

Sahil is the Founder & CEO of Gumroad. The idea behind Gumroad was simple: Creators and others should be able to sell their products directly to their audiences with quick, simple links. No need for a storefront. Sahil thought Gumroad would become a billion-dollar company, with hundreds of employees. It would IPO, and I would work on it until I died. Something like that. In this episode, Ben and Sahil discuss: - How Twitter is like your own note pad - Making yourself replaceable in your own business - Making features simple and frictionless - How Sahil uses no-code automations personally

AJ is the founder & CEO of Carrd. He's been designing and developing stuff for the web since the mid-2000s. I'm mostly known for building HTML5 UP, Pixelarity, and a handful of projects over at GitHub. Carrd is a platform for building simple, responsive, one-page sites for pretty much anything, whether it's a personal profile, a landing page with a MailChimp signup form, or something a bit more elaborate. It's fast, flexible, simple to use, and 100% free. This episode covers: - Roadmapping your product features - How COVID has changed AJ's business - The difference between scoping custom web development vs. no-code development.

Sjoerd Handgraaf is a Growth & Product Marketing Specialist, with nearly a decade of experience in SaaS startups & growth companies (both web & app) in digital media, B2B & B2C software & clean-tech. He's currently the CMO of Sharetribe, a platform for making your own platform or marketplace. This episode covers: - Should you use a single solution or a stack of solutions? - How support can give you a skewed view on your own tool. - Using exit interviews. - The ""VC"" view vs. the Maker view

Tyler and Duncan have been best friends since pre-school. They built & sold their first business together at 16, and attempted to start several more before starting Memberstack. Memberstack helps site owners, turn websites into members-only sites, dashboards, web apps, and intranets with user accounts and payments (for any website.) This episode covers: - Customer conversations and Feedback - Organizing your road map - How do developers see the no-code movement? - Finding solutions with constraints

Nirman is the Founder of Obviously.ai. Growing up in a small town in India, she was always fascinated by computers, so she ended up teaching myself how to code from YouTube videos and kickstarted my journey into creating beautiful projects that people loved. Eventually, these projects became products, and products became companies. In this conversation Nirman and Ben discuss... - Machine Learning and Data - How Machine Learning overlaps with no-code - Nirma's 5 no-code predictions - How obviously AI plans to tap the power of community

Mike Williams is the creator of Build Lab, which leverages a wide array of tools and expertise to build everything from no-code automation to fully-coded custom applications, and everything in between. Mike is also a freelance developer on Upwork, and generally gets hired to consult companies (big and small) on their tech stack and automation such as Airtable, Integromat, APIs, Database management, and web development.

Nathan Barry, the Founder and CEO of ConvertKit, email marketing software designed to help creators connect with their audience. Before creating ConvertKit, Nathan wrote extensively about designing and launching digital products online. In this conversation, Ben and Nathan discuss their team's shift to focusing their products on creators, how they build their audience with free-to-start products, and how they structure their internal company revenue share for employees.

Mike Williams is a startup founder running Studiotime, then also Thinkbox since both of which are low & no code focused. Mike's core focus is to help founders build and create marketpalaces without needing to write code. Ben & Mike chat about running no code businesses, with a specific focus on marketplaces.

Tyler Tringas is the General Partner of Earnest Capital. Earnest ( Full disclosure - an investor in Makerpad) is creating a new way to help fund bootstrappers by combining venture and debt instruments that allow founders of profitable SaaS companies to leverage capital to grow without having to be set on the path of never ending capital raising and dilution. Tyler started Earnest after 5 years of bootstrapping my own SaaS business, Storemapper which he sold. You can read the whole story here. Ben and Tyler talk about the future of building profitable companies, no-code as a segment and all things SaaS.

Aron Korenblit is part of the teaching team at Airtable. Prior to joining Airtable Aron created the Essential Guide to Airtable, a popular course on Airtable. Aron is a master at figuring out how to ""Automate All the Things"" with the hopes to help people learn to automate the mundane so they can focus on what they love. Ben & Aron talk about automation, startups and how using no-code can simply make your life better, regardless of your profession. You can see a short backstory of AATT here.

Ward Sandler is the Co-founder of Memberspace. Memberspace allows you to turn any part of your website into members-only with just a few clicks. Simply lock access to any page of your website then choose what people pay to get in. Create memberships for anything you want like courses, video tutorials, member directories, and more while having 100% control over the look & feel. Ward and his team of designers & developers started Memberspace after realising how much of a need it was. Prior to building the Memberspace software they ran a web design agency who have built and supported over 400 websites, eCommerce stores, and web applications. Ben & Ward deep dive into all things member sites and the future of building communities online.

Mariam Hakobyan is the founder at Softr.io Mariam, an engineer/ ex-Director of Engineering turned entrepreneur. Prior to launching Softr.io she has built software products and led product engineering teams for most of her career. Softr is built to empower 99% of the world, who doesn’t know how to code, to build software products without having to learn how to code. Mariam is someone very passionate about the no-code space and on this episode Ben and Mariam speak about why she sees it as the future.

Graham Hunter is the head of Segment's Startup Program. Graham joined my first startup in the Wharton VIP (venture initiation program) Techstars alum, the first employee at a Techstars company that then sold to Intuit. Prior to joining Segment, he was Director of Marketing at Patreon Today Ben and Graham talk marketing, no-code tools & startups! Segment offers a Startup Program to enable early startups to track data correctly and easily test the marketing and analytics tools necessary to grow their business. The program is open to any early-stage startup that meets the following eligibility requirements: - Incorporated less than two years ago - Raised no more than $5MM in total funding - Located in Google Cloud eligible territory - haven’t previously received other Segment discounts You can find out more about it here: https://segment.com/

Vinay Patankar is the co-founder & CEO of Process Street. Process Street is the simplest way to manage your teams recurring processes and workflows. Process Street makes it easily set up new clients, onboard employees and manage content publishing with Process Street. Process Street is a venture backed SaaS company and AngelPad alum with numerous fortune 500 clients. Salesforce, AirBnB, Yale, GAP and 1000's of other companies rely on Process Street to manage and automate repetitive work in their teams. Vinay was the youngest certified Cisco engineer in Australia at age 16, and is well-versed in IT, Finance, Startup Investment and Software Recruitment. Process Street is his fourth internet company. Ben & Vinay dive into no-code for enterprise and B2B customers, and how process & automation tools are changing the way we do business on scale. Vinay also blogs at Abstract Living about Startups, how to build a blog, Nomadic travel and all things marketing.

Evan Davies is the Head of Solutions, Partnerships, Marketing, and Brand at Coda. Prior to joining Coda Evan was the founding team member of Box Consulting's Austin team, growing to 11 consultants managing over 400 deployment projects. He directly sold over $1.5M in consulting work, doubling attach rates to licensing deals and tripling bookings YoY. Prior to that was at Accenture where he designed and implemented trading operations and analytics products for Fortune Global 500 clients. Evan has a degree in Civil Engineering. Today Ben & Evan talk all things Coda, Partnerships and marketing solutions.

Mike Miello is a designer, developer, marketer, and project manager. He specializes in turning ideas into deliverables you want. Currently based in Paris, France, (Rueil-Malmaison to be precise) Mike runs a remote consulting business that helps businesses get what they need faster, more cost-effectively and with less hassle. Ben & Mike talk about making things people want, building products and how no-code can be a superpower for business owners.

David Siegel is the co-founder and CEO of Glide. He previously worked at Microsoft. He also held positions at Xamarin, Futureproof, and X1 Technologies. David holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy and computer science engineering and has been dreaming up the future of visual programming and mixing code & nocode Glide turns spreadsheets into beautiful, easy-to-use apps, without code. Pick a spreadsheet or start with a template, customize your app, then share it instantly. Glide was in the Y Combinator Winter 2019 class David was working with his co-founders Jason Smith, Mark Probst and Antonio Garcia Aprea at Xamarin, a cross-platform mobile development company that Microsoft acquired for $500 million in 2016. There, they witnessed first-hand the difficulty that companies were having building mobile apps so the four founders decided to build a startup to solve the problem. Ben and David dig into all things glide & building real solutions, fast.

Jan is a product designer currently working on making the future be NO-CODE at Webflow, while traveling around the world. Best known products across the design community are currently Dashboard UI Kit 3.0 and Dashboard UI Kit (selling over 4000 sold copies!!). Ben and Jan sit down to chat in detail about building beautiful and functional design with no-code, diving into some specific project examples. This episode is about going into the details of a project so you learn and get inspired to build your own. You can check out some of Jans recent projects can be found on Dribbble and Behance or UI Kits online.

Founded in 2012, Bubble was created with the goal of making coding obsolete. Bubble is a great example of a grassroots company that is bootstrapped and profitable. The Bubble community has grown to 200K + users, with hundreds of thousands of web-apps built. Emmanuel is originally from France and started his career as a management consultant in China. He moved to the USA to attend Harvard Business School and towards the end of his time there he met his co-founder Josh who was looking for a partner to work on what is now bubble. In this episode, Ben & Emmanuel dive into how Bubble is changing access to non-technical founders, the rise and rise of no-code and the future possibilities in the space.

Serial entrepreneur Joseph Cohen launched Universe as a no-code, mobile-only website builder to help nearly 400,000 people easily build websites via its grid editor on the go. A graduate of Y Combinator's Winter 2018 class, Universe raised $7.2 million from firms like Box Group and General Catalyst. Plus an addition Series A raise of $10m from GV - Closed at the beginning of April 2020. Ben & Joseph talk all things Universe, capital raising, no-code and the future of building digital products.

Vlad Magdalin is the founder and CEO of Webflow, a company that is working on empowering designers and entrepreneurs to design, build, and launch websites and applications without having to learn how to code. Webflow has grown to be the platform at the very heart of the no-code movement and in this conversation, Ben and Vlad talk about the marketplace, the potential and about all things building and creating online. You can find all the details and links mentioned in this interview at Makerpad.co/podcast and you can start building on Webflow at webflow.com

Kenny helps people go from idea to product quickly. As the founder and a mentor on Mentor Pass. Prior to mentoring startups, and building companies, Kenny was mentoring large companies as a technology consulting manager and agile coach at Accenture. Mentor Pass is a website that matches founders with the right kind of coach. You can connect with experts in each specific area (like funding or operations) and you only pay by the time you use as you go. Top advice at an affordable price. Today, Ben and Kenny sit down to discuss the making of Mentor Pass, his experience with no-code tools and get into the weeds of the stack used, the challenges, and why it's easier to create than ever before using no-code tools.

The no-code movement is so much more than building a small side project for yourself or a few others. It's about empowering the 99% of us who can't code or just don't have the time or want to build something quickly and validate it. So this podcast is about showing you the behind the scenes of the people who built the tools and why they built them, their stories and what's possible. Check out our show and if you enjoy what you're hearing, rate us and subscribe. Thanks!