Feedback on my 1st No-Code: SIDEWALK DRINKS? (Glide)
I finally dove in and built this in about 8 hours. I'd love feedback and ideas.
https://sidewalkdrinks.com/
The sole purpose is to allow for SF-based folks to find bars and restaurants that are currently serving alcoholic beverages, that may or may not be allowed to be consumed on the sidewalk (yay socially distantly responsible sidewalk parties). I realize this may be controversial, and I'm open to high-level and low-level feedback!
Glide (the sole tech in the stack - in addition to their Google Sheets integration) was very easy to figure out, and now I feel I can create comparable apps in half the time since I know the nuanced ropes.
Note: I haven't publicized this yet locally (might not at all), and am in the process of adding about 15 more drink venues to seed the listings.
Hey Trey! Congrats on creating this. Awesome to see you share your experience building it.
A couple things:
the emoji logo is perfect - I think this is important to have something clean, memorable to look at, easy to recognize
I think that the initial description you have on the landing screen needs simplifying. I like "Discover venues where you can drink with others on the sidewalk or nearby" This leads with why should I care and why is this valuable to me? I think the reset of the text underneath the title is good, but is it possible to put that further down in a bulleted manner? The initial text is overwhelming and need easier way to immediately understand it. One option is your picture you use would be perfect to have the title and the "discover venues.." text in white overlay. You could create that in Canva. Have you used that tool before? That may be an option to help your initial presentation.
I really like the CTA "Explore all open drink venues" - is it possible that it could go to the map screen instead? For me if I am using this, what is the fastest way to find a bar near me? It may just be me, but I prefer a map because I a map is so much easier to read than a list. Especially if I am using your tool for the first time, I have no idea how to use it to search quickly.
Is there any way to drive deeper engagement? Would be super slick if I favorited a bar, and then could receive updates on drink specials for the day or week.
I have an idea of how you might be able to create that with nocode. And would be happy to share the tools to use to create that experience. (I would need to know if Glide stores user information like that in the google sheet?)
Hope that helps. I love what you are doing. And I admire you and Makers who put themselves out there to make something.
Also, give me a shout when you are ready to get it out publicly. I would love to share with my network and help out. I'm most active on twitter, but you can message me here too.
Solo Glide project...I would appreciate your feedback. Thanks Michael
https://ontap.life/
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback! I'll make a ton of the copy pithier. And yes, buttons can head anywhere (list vs. map etc.). I like the idea in #4. Yes, Glide can capture data in G Sheets when users enter it... Lemme see if this takes off, first.
Sounds good! Good luck!
Nice job Trey. I built something similar in Glide. I like that you provided for users to add their favorite venue...I'll need to model that for ontap.life https://ontap.life/
Hey I checked out ontap.life - nice job! Curious why did you go with Mapbox?
It's resident in glide. What's a better option? Thanks. It's the first project I've built no code or otherwise.