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We built a $3M startup with a $60/month NoCode stack. And, now we want to tell your NoCode story!

Hey everyone ๐Ÿ‘‹

I love NoCode and truly believe that it has made building startups affordable and more accessible to all.

In fact, we grew our startup to $3 million in revenue using a $60 NoCode stack! It was an absolute revelation for us! (more about it later)

So, I want more people to know, appreciate & leverage the power of NoCode.

To that end, I am working on a series to uncover the NoCode journey startups have taken. Not just a general story, but one with actionable inputs on:

  1. Their NoCode Stack
  2. Impact of Code vs. NoCode
  3. Financial impact on the business
    & more!

If you've used NoCode to buildd your startup, I'd love to cover your journey. Just fill in your details in the form below, and I'll reach back with more details.

Form Link: Share your NoCode journey

We will be publish & market your story on buildd, a learning platform for startups & business.

What's in it for you?

Here are a few ways this could benefit you:

  1. You can add a referral link (do-follow) to your blog/website. Our website (buildd) gets ~100K monthly pageviews right now, and has a domain rating of 57.
  2. We will share your story in our newsletter (~15K subscribers), and on Twitter (~27K followers)

Our story

My co-founders and I started buildd-ing our startup, Flexiple โ€”ย a platform that connects companies with top tech freelancers โ€” while we were in college.

As a typical first-time entrepreneur would, we entirely focused on building a product for scale.

โ‡’ We spent $5,000 to build our first product but dumped it immediately.
โ‡’ We spent another $5,000 to build another product and again had to dump it.

With 2 failed attempts and $10,000 in the bin, we dropped the product and just earned our first $100k with just GoogleSheets.

Thereafter, we just kept automating various parts of our business โ€” that's where NoCode tools came in!

Fast forward to 5 years later, we scaled our startup Flexiple to $3M ARR all done on a $60/month NoCode stack.

So, again, it won't be an overstatement to say that I LOVE NoCode! And, now I want to cover other founders' NoCode journey on my new startup, buildd!

Here's the form link again: Share your NoCode journey.

Drop a reply below or reach out to me at [email protected] if you've any questions :)

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No-Code
on September 14, 2022
  1. 5

    Will be interesting to see the diversity of products built using no-code. Great job mate. Looking forward to it

    1. 2

      What kind of product are you interested in building, Kushal?

      1. 2

        Hey Sneha. I believe No code applications will initially flourish in productivity tools in every vertical.

    1. 2

      Oops! I just tagged you in a comment - did not realize you already wrote in :)

    2. 1

      This comment was deleted 3 years ago.

  2. 3

    Which are the NoCode tools you are running Flexiple on?

    1. 3

      Sure, here's our NoCode stack:

      1. Marketing website: Unicorn Platform ($10)
      2. Product: Airtable ($0 - on credits) & Bubble ($25)
      3. Scale & side projects: Webflow ($45)

      We've upgraded the Bubble plan recently and made a few other changes, but this has remained our stack for the most amount of time.

      1. 2

        Hi, mind if I ask why you pick Webflow five years before? I have used WordPress to build website for my not so successful B2C business five years before. Feel quite comfortable with it. Then partner with some others now to build a job board, but they are now using Wix. And I would say I totally pissed off on the SEO and page speed things of Wix. I am thinking about which technology/platform to start the whole thing again!

        Would love to hear your comment and your mind journey in choosing which NoCode tools/platform! TIA!

        1. 1

          Hey, we actually started with Wordpress initially. I had worked as a software engineer earlier, and had only heard of Wordpress before. So, it was the obvious choice for our blog & mini projects (to avoid the hassle of custom apps).

          We switched to Webflow only around 2019-2020, when we wanted to buildd a more nuanced & good looking product. We ended up doing a lot of JS based customisation on Webflow though.

      2. 2

        Nice, thank you for sharing!

  3. 3

    This sounds amazing. Looking forward to the series!

    1. 1

      Cheers Rebecca :)

  4. 2

    This is amazing, Hrishikesh. Love nocode stories as well and I think @dg96 and @katt_lab would be amazing people to contribute to this.

    1. 2

      Thanks for the suggestions, Sneha! Reached out to Katt already, will also speak to Domenico :)

  5. 2

    How did you figure out that we need to drop this product and work on new idea? Decision making like this is not easy. Any suggestions on that?

    1. 1

      Sure, my co-founder has explained our decisions wrt to the initial products in detail here - https://twitter.com/KarthikS2206/status/1363753880849317888 :)

  6. 2

    Great initiative! Would love to read these stories.

  7. 2

    a inspiring journey @hrishikesh1990

  8. 2

    Great job Hrishikesh! Congrats! We don't use a lot of no-code tools at Hypefury but I think you have an offer that will get you plenty of takers.

    1. 1

      Thanks Yannick!

      Love your newsletter - I am a regular reader :)

  9. 2

    Great initiative! Would love to read more such stories.

    1. 1

      Cheers Suvansh ;)

  10. 1

    Can't answer yet... I'm building my website haha!!!

  11. 2

    This comment was deleted 2 years ago.

    1. 2

      That's great! My co-founder has written a detailed thread about our experience: https://twitter.com/KarthikS2206/status/1363753880849317888

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