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22 Dec, 7 tweets, 2 min read

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What has @eltintero learned after making 180 no-code apps in 2020?

"As the founder of LowCode.Agency, this year I’ve had the opportunity to work with dozens of founders, business owners, and entrepreneurs in order to build a custom app for them."

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1. Good original ideas are very scarce

I can't tell you how many bad ideas we've built.

People thinking they are making the next Uber, Doordash or Yelp, without disrupting the current process is a mistake (IMHO).

2. Riches are in the niches

Focus on a specific pain in an industry you know. fix those pains that large software companies are overlooking.

3. Examples?

• App to help cleaning personnel to manage their clients, payments, and quotations. 29/mo including access to a community to share resources, ideas, etc.

• App for trucking companies to manage drivers and expenses in a simple way.

4. B2B vs B2C

We've built a bunch of MVPs but I'm yet to see a successful company building a business on top of a B2C app.

I'm not saying b2b is a walk in the prairie.

There are so many needs that can be fixed with custom software for companies willing to spend money on it.

5. Starting is cheap, growing is hard

For less than 10k you can get a fully functional app, landing page, domain, emailing platform...

Growth is a whole other monster, though.

Marketing, SEO, ads, and customer acquisition are expensive.

6. Launch v1 but provide a lot of value

Just fix one thing, that you can quantify in money or time, and you’ll get the clients.

Don’t spend on things you think your client wants. Just build v1, get a bunch of customers, and then define the roadmap.

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