Eight tips for your next no-code product

As a no-code entrepreneur, I spent the last five years developing MVPs with no-code. Then, I focused on getting them to market as soon as possible.

I've released five, one of which gained traction, and I'm working on the next one right now.

Here are eight tips to speed up your process and find customers faster:

1/ Separate your back-end and front-end development:

I use Make.com for developing the back-end and bubble.io for building the front end.

While this might create more work, it makes your products much more powerful from the start.

2/ Don’t worry about usage:

In the beginning, you aren’t going to have lots of users.

So when you start, don’t worry if your implementation isn’t “effective.” Focus on going to market, not minimizing costs.

3/ In your first year, you shouldn’t pay for almost any software:

Microsoft lets you use GPT4 for free with 150K$US of credits for two years (Sign up here: https://foundershub.startups.microsoft.com/ ).

AWS provides you with 10K$US credits for all its services. Translation (which is expensive), serverless functions, and many other tools are included.

Almost all startup vendors offer free/heavily discounted startup plans for their apps.

4/ Never skip Figma:

Whatever you do, don’t start developing your front end without having a UI designed first.

You’ll spend days going back and forth if you jump right into development.

I use visily.ai first to create the wireframes, then hand it over to a designer in Fiverr. You can also use UIzard.com to generate your screens.

5/ Figma to bubble is life-changing:

You can import a Figma design into Bubble.io and generate all the objects automatically.

You only have to spend ~5 hours per page to sort out the responsiveness, and that’s much faster than building from scratch.

6/ Store your data from the start:

Store every user action or data piece you can find, even if you don’t know what to do with it. I use Segment for tracking events. It’ll be important in the future!

7/ Research before developing:

I’ve had a few products built that nobody wanted. After doing my homework, speaking with customers, and checking the feature request forums, I approached it differently. As a result, I built a CRM plugin that is now generating more than $2000US per month.

8/ Search the feature requests forum to find ideas:

If you’re looking to build a plugin for an existing platform, search the feature requests forums to see which features have been on the list for a long time.

Find those with many votes/comments about them, and the vendor didn't develop and isn't planning to. Then, build the plugin and let people know in the thread.

Good luck! :)