No-code played a huge role in the last 3yrs of my maker journey, and along the way, I learned so many things apart from building products.
Here are some side effects you get when you build using no-code
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1/ Learn how to design user flows:
Before building, you got to think about the workflow of your product from a user's perspective. This exercise helps you think about the UX and how you can focus on making frictionless experiences.
2/ Learn how to prioritize and scope your product:
Everyone wants to build the next big thing, but it all starts when you focus on what's important to your user and how fast can you build features.
Scoping and descoping will become a habit once you start using no-code.
3/ Learn how to gather tight feedback:
Since you can build and ship fast, you get a chance to establish a tight feedback loop with your users every time you ship a new feature
This way you know what they want and what they don't
The tighter the feedback the better the product
4/ Learn how to iterate a product:
As you gather feedback, you get a chance to iterate and make the product better by 1%
Iteration is one of the most important lessons I learned. It makes you fall in love with the process and keep you afar from results.
5/ Learn how to build in public:
BIP is the best marketing strategy there is. It helps you to build credibility, trust, and momentum with your community!
Share your lessons, highs, lows, numbers(revenue) as you grow. Being transparent and vulnerable only makes you stronger.
6/ Learn how to talk to customers:
As you build in public, you get to meet with your users either on 1-1 or on Twitter. Both ways, you will get a chance to empathize with them, ask questions about what they want, and build long-term relationships with them.
7/ Learn how to build a founder mindset:
The beauty of building with no-code is you get to change a lot of hats. You will be a designer, marketer, salesperson, growth hacker, builder, listener, long-term thinker, manager, and everything you need to build a founder DNA.
8/ Learn how to take ideas from zero to one faster:
By doing everything above, you become an expert in shipping ideas faster, taking care of all things a startup requires.
Doing so makes you unstoppable in the long run.
That's all I have for you today 🙌 Hope this thread helps you remove the barriers of no-code and you get a chance to build things!
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As I'm preparing to join @ProductHunt, I studied many community builders and founders. Here are some tactics and lessons I learned 👇
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1/ Build a give-first and value-first mindset:
The fundamentals of community building are tied to principles of giving what you have and sharing what you know(value). Ask yourself what you can offer and wholeheartedly put it out so others can benefit from it.
2/ Play infinite games:
Community building is an infinite game to play with long-term players. It is not a game to play to win. It is a pie that everyone can share and should be played to benefit each other.
Build that level of culture that drives communities to last longer.
I just went through all of @JamesClear’s 3-2-1 newsletter editions and here are 100 ideas from the man himself that are invaluable and shouldn't be missed
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1/ “Start now. Optimize later. An imperfect start can always be improved, but obsessing over a perfect plan will never take you anywhere on its own.”
2/ “When making plans, think big. When making progress, think small.”
3/ “Habits will form whether you want them or not. Whatever you repeat, you reinforce.”
4/ “Life is short. And if life is short, then moving quickly matters. Launch the product. Write the book. Ask the question. Take the chance.
Be thoughtful, but get moving.”
From day 1, I intended to build @shoutoutso_ in public, and part of it is to be transparent with numbers, talk openly about our highs and lows, and share lessons as we grow!
I have been doing individual posts on numbers every week so wanted to one big thread with all updates 👇🏽
Twitter DMs are the most underrated feature that works like a charm when you use them to your advantage 💯
Almost half of the @shoutoutso_ sales came from DMs, and here are some things I tried which worked for us that might help you as well 👇🏽
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1/ Be relevant:
One of the important things I did when talking to customers is being relevant to them. And the only best way I know is by sharing my story unfiltered.
Do it with authenticity and it works.
2/ Make them relatable:
Being relatable is equally important as being relevant. I shared our existing user's stories, how they got amplified from Shoutout and used them to build credibility and trust.
Your prospects are not strangers. They are just like you.