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It felt great to have released the beta of this app, gather feedback, and pivot.
Most of the feedback actually came from one gracious beta user (the cofounder of MonkeyLearn, actually, which was one of the apps I used to build mine).
He mentioned that while my product was meant to make it super easy to get from someone's idea to the no-code tools they could use to build it, I didn't ask enough upfront and so the tool suggestions were too vague.
The better approach would be to go ahead and ask a series of questions that was more like a decision tree to help the tool suggestion to be more specific.
Totally makes sense. Michael Novotny created something just like it with https://sideprojectstack.com/
So, the beta is closed and I learned a good bit.
All in all, I had 27 people sign up for the app or waitlist. Honestly, more than I would've expected from such little marketing I did.
On we go to the next adventure!
I'm working on celebrating the small wins so here we go. To be honest, I almost didn't post this milestone!
But, I know it's actually pretty meaningful when you get someone to sign up for something brand spankin' new.
I'm pretty intentional with not promoting things I do to family and friends, especially at the beginning. They just really don't mean anything. The Mom Test really taught me about that!
I started my blog in January 2020 and it's grown slowly but steadily since. It's a bit shocking that people want to follow along my journey but it's also validating that I have value to offer.
I think most people have more value to offer than they think. They're probably just struggling to understand what that value is exactly. Or where it fits.
The more you put out the less you care about the response. I used to only post content every once in awhile and when I didn't get a good response, I would sort of stop posting. But, if you keep posting, you care less about every single post getting a great response. And you then get to learn.
I actually now have 8 beta users after a couple days. My next goal is feedback. Gotta get that feedback.
I worked early mornings and here and there until I finally got a workable MVP done. It does the thing and doesn't look half bad.
No-code made it possible. Adalo, Zapier, MonkeyLearn, Coda, Airtable.
Released it to my blog subscribers and will manually add new people in from the waitlist.
Taking things really slow and hope to get some feedback. I have a feedback prompt in the app.
Here goes nothing.
I record business and product ideas mainly in my iPhone's reminders app. It's not ideal, but it gets the job done.
I've been diving into no-code tools like Adalo for some time and decided to create an app specifically for my business/product ideas.
But I wanted something a bit more than just a list. I wanted the list to work for me. Do something beyond house items.
I read about how ideas aren't nearly as valuable as execution. So I was thinking about ways I could take my ideas and move them closer to execution. Figured that would give my ideas more value.
After discovering the tool Monkey Learn, I realized I could create my very own machine learning model to take my ideas and classify them automatically.
With the help of Zapier, I could have my Adalo app feed the ideas into Monkey Learn and spit out the classification, allowing me to then associate no-code tools that are related to the classification.
A bit in the weeds, here, but the "how" was pretty interesting to me.
Starting working when I had time and saw this as a fun side project.
Build Anything automatically suggests no-code tools that could be used to build your business and product ideas.