Quick weekend marketplace project - Withoutcode.io
http://www.withoutcode.io
Yo IndieHackers, been a while since I've built a side project over the weekend but got a head start yesterday and built a marketplace for hiring no code experts that I just made live at www.withoutcode.io.
I built it with Instapage and Sharetribe, so no code used and took about an hour at most.
Would love to hear everyone's feedback!
Something I think is a great idea as I’ve built something similar [1]. The challenge is whether no code is big enough for folks to want experts yet and what they value these projects at when you can easily build lots yourself [2]. I’m definitely going to experiment more with it too so interesting to see how this space grows.
A site was built on bubble [3] that let people hire experts for webflow, zapier etc just like this and makerpad marketplace, went through ycombinator and did the whole shabang but now only offer squarespace designers as a service. (I’ve spoken with their founder about it and super interesting story too).
Obviously I’m biased about the no code space as I’m betting big here!
[1] https://www.makerpad.co/hire
[2] https://www.makerpad.co/
[3] https://www.usesixty.com/
Big fan of Makerpad @bentossell and ran with the idea for Withoutcode since I didn't think building out a fully-featured marketplace was a focus for Makerpad (respect what you've built, find it super valuable, and don't want to cross over so much).
I agree with you in that the no code space is small right now, most of the growth seems to be driven by those that are adopting no code so they can learn how to build products themselves, and that the demand for building product businesses might not even be knowledgable that they can be done with no code tools for less time and money (yet!).
I'm making an assumption that there might still be a need for even the DIY'ers to access and hire no code experts so they can accelerate their learning and/or builds, a need for no coder's to monetize their skillsets (hopefully that they learned from Makerpad ;), and the general growth of the market might be able to get a side project off the ground and support it.
I wasn't aware of Sixty though and thanks for sharing, along with a bit of background on it!
Appreciate it.
Actually the cofounder of Sixty is talking about some of the challenges on twitter now https://twitter.com/_davidhead/status/1162788957546876929?s=21
Awesome, thanks for heads up! 👊