I’ve been using Zapier to connect Webflow, Teachable, and Mailchimp as students sign up for my courses and take lectures.
I LOVE Zapier. But, this weekend, I saved $50 / month coding everything myself
You can do the same with basic coding skills 👇🏻
Whenever I code, I find it helpful to describe the steps in plain English.
In most cases, coding is simply the act of automating a task you would have otherwise done manually.
In my case, I needed the following to happen:
For each of the 3 actions (sign up, complete lecture, complete course) the following happens:
Zapier made automating all of these steps super easy (like I said, I LOVE the service).
…and Zapier was especially helpful because Teachable has a terrible API
Sticking with plain English, here’s how I got my code to work:
I created a “webhook” to get Teachable to keep an eye out for students completing certain actions and then do something when the action occurs.
Ex. when a student signs up for a course, that webhook gets notified, then passes the information over to Mailchimp
Then, I used Mailchimp’s API to update the information about the student that we got from Teachable
I picked the information I wanted to store in Mailchimp (the student’s name, email, course name, price paid, etc.), then told Mailchimp to store it.
I’m a big believer in the No Code movement, but I’ve found it incredibly helpful to know how to code so I can supercharge whatever I’m doing and save money along the way.
Having taught myself to code to build my last company, I know what it’s like to be a coding n00b.
I taught coding at General Assembly to help beginners like me learn to code, and now I’m running Like I Am Five to teach entrepreneurs to code their own products.
If you need help, reach out anytime!
And, if you want the code from today, just click here: likeiamfive.com/email-list