Looking for Zapier experts
Hello No coders,
I've been working as a No code developper in a startup for 2 months now and one of the tool I work the most with is Zapier. I love the tool and the time I've been able to save for our teams and myself is priceless.
However, I still have a lot to learn and I'm convinced I don't exploit all of the features Zapier offer.
I'm lookig for experienced Zapier users to follow on twitter, here, or to hop on a quick call with me in exchange of a virtual coffee, and my eternal gratitude :)
I'm mainly looking for inspirations, from the workflows you would have previously created/worked with.
Don't hesitate to refer a friend or a zapier expert from your network.
Merci!
Victor -
This isn't going to be a help to you at this instant, but I'm working on a platform to help match people who are looking for help, mentorship, chat, and collaboration. It will be focused on "real-time" connections at first - meaning that you're looking to connect with somebody "right now", as that seems to be a gap in any current solutions, but I'm planning on expanding it to regular or scheduled connections, and group projects.
The general idea being, when you sign up, you create a profile with your skills, interests, and needs - in this case Zapier, integrations, no-code, etc.
When you find you're interested in either giving or receiving help or advice or mentorship, or just chatting, you indicate so on the platform, and it will try to match you with somebody who's looking for the same thing, same languages, same skills, and allow you to say yes or no to the match, and if it's a "yes" from both parties, provide the connection information (Zoom, or Tuple or Slack or whatever).
After the session, rate the other person, maybe friend them, and in the future, add them to your project/group.
If you're interested, please add yourself to my waiting list: https://pairmatch.us
No-code is a specific area I'm focusing on, as it is relatively easy to find help/mentorship for coding, but a lot more difficult with no-code.
Interested in any feedback you might have about the concept!
Thank you Edward !
On paper your idea seems extremely valuable to profiles like mine. Both as a "student" and as a mentor.
The main limitation you'll face is the "chicken and egg" problem proper to every P2P platforms.
What tech stack will you be using?
I joined your WL and I'll be waiting for your updates.
Best of luck !
If executed properly there is undoubtedly potential behind your idea :)
Yeah, getting critical mass out of the gate is going to be a challenge. I'm hoping that being transparent about the process will give the early members more patience about any slowness at the start.
I'm hoping to be able to pull in a few "core groups" of people already connected, in a few topical areas, to start, just make the system attractive enough for them to switch their collaboration onto PairMatch.
I'm also planning on the "doing things that don't scale" and helping/mentoring a ton myself.
As far as platform - I had thought to try to get something out ASAP using some no-code platform - probably bubble.io. As I planned it out, I came to realize that for some core aspects of the system, I'd have to do a bunch of custom coding, as plugins or apis or something, and the overhead of doing that against a no-code platform slow things down enough that any speed advantage over traditional coding would be lost - so I'm going down the traditional route.
In this case - next.js/react on the front-end and a node-based framework Feathers.js (https://feathersjs.com/) that I'm super familiar with on the back end connecting to postgres.
"Executed properly" - man, isn't that the trick! There have been a ton of similar services in the past, and most of them are dead. I've tried reaching out for tips and info about why they died, but haven't gotten any info.
My worry is that there is a group of people that really do want/need something like this, but the actual number of people you can get on the platform doesn't cross the critical-mass threshold. We'll see...
I'm hoping to alleviate this by pushing hard on non-software-engineer areas, like getting designers, UX experts, content marketing, no-code builders, etc.
I love a user story like, "I'm a no-code builder and my eye for design is limited. I'm hoping to connect with a designer for 30 minutes this morning, who can give me quick tips on improving my design." - tips like, make this font a bit bigger, add a bit of margin here, padding there, go with a darker color, move this... The sort of tips you get from Refactoring UI (https://www.refactoringui.com/) but in real-time from a real person, specific to your site.
I'm hoping that crossing disciplines will get me past the critical-mass point.
Victor, I'm curious to know what you're using Zapier for.
We've been building Integry for some time now and we call it "Native Zapier for your Saas"
In case you're using Zapier, not to automate your own tasks but, to build automation for your customers, you'd definitely find this useful: https://integry.io/
Happy to hop on that call if you want a quick tour :D
I'm moving away from custom consulting a bit in regards to automation but Zapier is my jam for the most part, https://twitter.com/gavin_wiener