Trends #0033 — No-Code

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🔍 Problem

Recreating wheels (and apps) wastes time, money and energy.

💡 Solution

No-Code tools help you solve well-understood problems. Blogs, online stores, games, marketplaces, mobile apps and more can be built without writing code.

🏁 Players

Products

• RandomPizza
• LetterDrop
• Studiotime
• Shoutout
• Mikro
• Dev Shopper
• Rebel Book Club 
• Recruit-HQ
• Incomee
• My No-Code Journal

Tools

• Carrd
• Webflow
• Bildr
• Adalo
• Glide
• Softr
• Bubble
• Sharetribe
• Buildbox

Founders

• Ben Tossell
• Tara Reed
• Sam Lloyd
• Dan Parry
• Sisa Lleses
• Karthik Puvvada (KP)
• Rita Roloff
• Lacey Kesler
• Mark Magnuson
• Mariam Hakobyan

🔮 Predictions

• Using no-code will be a competitive advantage. Saving time, money and energy. Allowing you to build (and change) faster and cheaper than competitors.
• No-code leads to bundling and unbundling. Sharetribe, Anchor, Podia and Substack are monolithic. Studiotime, Swimmy and Wheelprice are specific.

☁️ Opportunities

• Start small with basic no-code tools like Carrd and Pory before moving on.
• Join #100DaysOfNoCode for social accountability.
• Start a no-code agency. Wit Suma, a Trends Pro member, launched a no-code agency building growth tools. See Thinkbox, BuildLab, Twindeavor, Luhhu and Finsweet. Services can be your gateway to products and scalable income.
• Use no-code tools to build a productized service. Lead Cookie ($50k/m) and Scribly ($30k/m) use Zapier and Airtable. Jake Jorgovan works 5 hours a week. As Lead Cookie earns $50,000 a month. (Via Seth)

🔑 Key Lessons

• No-code tools democratize leverage. When anyone can build. Authenticity outweighs access.
• Leverage amplifies judgement.
• Code, capital, manufacturing, (paid) acquisition and ideas are being commoditized.

😠 Haters

“No-Code?! There’s actually code.”
But you aren’t writing it. Some hate this term. But alternatives have too many syllables to win a marketing war. Haters complain about “no-code” and make it more popular.

“No-code will eliminate developer jobs.”
Developers will spend less time on CRUD apps. And more time on hard problems. Michael Gill and Yaro Bagriy use no-code tools to boost productivity.

“All problems can’t be solved with no-code.”
Correct. Absolutes are usually false.

“No-code tools can’t scale.”
Most can. But this is a good problem.

“Don’t call your agency a ‘no-code’ agency.”
Some search for no-code agencies in need of speed and accessibility. Build two funnels with the same service. Capture both segments.

🔗 Links

• Who’s down to talk no-code? • The tweet behind this report.
• How to Build • How to build Shopify, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Facebook, Amazon, Product Hunt and more without writing code.
• Serendipity as a Service (Random Pizza) • No-code tools help Whit Anderson build and operate RandomPizza.
• Small Teams • A list of teams behind billion-dollar companies. Abstraction breeds leverage.

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