10 Profitable Business Ideas You Can Build Without Code Today
No-code tools are democratizing entrepreneurship. Even if you don't know how to code, here's 10 business ideas you can start building today.
I hope this article is helpful! I've condensed 10 hours of research into one 5 minute post.
If you'd like to check out the original post with more linked resources, you can do so here!
1. Subscription Coffee Company
💡 The idea
- Build a subscription e-commerce coffee company
⚙️ How to build it without code
- Use a Shopify App to turn your Shopify store into a subscription box store.
🧲 How to get and retain users
- Content marketing for SEO to drive search traffic for related search terms.
- Reach out to businesses to offer as a perk to employees
- Collect emails of visitors and send out a weekly newsletter with the new coffee being sent out that week and stories from the roaster.
💰 How to monetize
- Sell products
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?
- Atlas Coffee Club
2. An education platform
💡 The idea
- A custom education platform for any niche (coding, no-coding, gardening, etc).
🧲 How to get and retain users
- Content marketing
- Build a Twitter audience among your niche
⚙️ How to build it without code
- Use Webflow, Memberstack, and Airtable (like No Code MBA)
- Use Teachable
- Use Podia
💰 How to monetize
- Charge a one-time fee or a subscription for access to content
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?
- No Code MBA (my site)
- SO many other great content creators
3. Productize Sales Outreach
💡 The idea
- Do cold outreach for companies to help them get warm sales leads
🧲 How to get and retain users
- Reach out to companies offering your services with cold emails
⚙️ How to build it without code
- Build a landing page using Card or Webflow
- Use Airtable to track clients and internal business operations
- Use Apollo.io to automate outreach
💰 How to monetize
- Charge per warm lead
- Charge a monthly fee for a set number of outreaches
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?
- Orapa earns $5,000/month
4. Build Helpdesk Software for Businesses
💡 The idea
- Build a SaaS platform that allows businesses to easily create and host a helpdesk/knowledgebase for customers
🧲 How to get and retain users
- Cold email sales (see Apollo.io from above)
- Content marketing - since you're selling to businesses, write content about managing customer service
⚙️ How to build it without code
- Build it in Bubble
- Build a simple MVP version in Glide
💰 How to monetize
- Charge a monthly fee to use the software
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?
- Zendesk is an example of a large company in this space
5. Build a paid community
💡 The idea
- Create a paid community around a niche
🧲 How to get and retain users
- Post in related online communities.
- Offer a free and paid version
- Offer free webinars to attract users
- Build connections between your members
⚙️ How to build it without code
- Build a membership site with Circle
💰 How to monetize
- Charge for premium access to the community
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?
- Smart Passive Income
- Forte Labs
- Many more
6. SaaS tool review site
💡 The idea
- Create a website that curates reviews of SaaS products to help businesses make their buying decision, similar to Capterra or G2
🧲 How to get and retain users
- Post in related online communities.
- Content marketing for SEO to drive organic traffic for related search terms.
- Collect emails on your site to build your newsletter.
- Guest-blog on related websites.
⚙️ How to build it without code
- Learn to build a similar curation site in Webflow
💰 How to monetize
- Use affiliate links to products on the site
- Charge for advertisement once you have a large userbase
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🤔 Who’s doing it profitably? - Large sites like Capterra or G2
7. Trademark attorney on-demand
💡 The idea
- Create a productized service that allows entrepreneurs to easily hire a lawyer to get a trademark for their business
🧲 How to get and retain users
- Facebook ads
- Post in related online communities
- Collect emails on your site by offer a discount code
⚙️ How to build it without code
- Build a landing page
- Manage the logistics of the business using Airtable (to manage lawyers, etc)
💰 How to monetize
- Find lawyers to agree to work on a fixed price if you bring them clients who want a trademark done
- Charge a premium to consumers and earn a profit on the difference
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?
- Not 100% sure, but I think it's a good idea 😀
8. Virtual Coaching Marketplace
💡 The idea
- Create a marketplace for people to find and hire coaches in a specific area of life (nutrition, professional coaching, etc)
🧲 How to get and retain users
- On the coaching side of the marketplace, use cold outreach to bring them on to the platform
- On the user side, use Twitter, content marketing, and Google Adwords to target people in your specific niche that would be interested in coaching
- Build a blog in your niche to become a thought leader and collect emails of people interested in your coaching topic
⚙️ How to build it without code
- Learn to build a marketplace in Sharetribe
💰 How to monetize
- Option 1: Take a small fee on each transaction
- Option 2: Take a one-time fee for making the first connection between coach and client
- Option 3: Charge a monthly fee for coaches to be listed on the marketplace
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?
9. Fitness membership app
💡 The idea
- Create a fitness membership in a specific niche (dancing, boxing, etc). Members pay a membership for access to videos and audio content.
🧲 How to get and retain users
- Post in related online communities
- Offer a free trial
- Post free content on Youtube
⚙️ How to build it without code
- Build a paid membership app in Glide
💰 How to monetize - Charge a monthly fee
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably? - Steezy (for dancing)
- Glo.com
10. Sell a restaurant reservation app to restaurants
💡 The idea
- Sell a simple reservation system to restaurants to help them bring their business online.
🧲 How to get and retain users
- Send cold emails to restaurants.
- Walk into restaurants in your area to pitch them on the service
- Get referrals from existing clients.
- Write your own content to increase search traffic.
⚙️ How to build it without code
- Build a restaurant reservation app in Glide
💰 How to monetize
- Charge a monthly fee for access to the reservation system
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?
- Lots of large businesses offer this service, but you can charge less if you're looking to build a smaller, profitable business.
If you'd like to check out the original post, here's the link!
If you want more ideas, here's a post from last year I put together with 11 more no-code business ideas.
Let me know if you have any questions!
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