New website refresh + new tutorials
by Ben TossellI've been working with the makerpad.co team on a new refresh of the site.
The goal? to allow people to see the section that's right for them easily. So if you're looking to build a membership site, you click through and see tutorials related to that. If you work in marketing, you click through and see tutorials to help you in your day-to-day.
Still some tweaks to make of course
Also, we published a few new tutorials:
- automatically create products in Shopify
- send app download links via Twilio
- use Apple shortcuts to save your fav blog posts
- pull Linkedin info into Webflow records
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Looks super clean, great job!
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love the icons! Did you make them yourself?
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Cool, I think this was the main point old Makerpad was laking -- the structure.
I was a bit confused when I entered the home screen previously, like "there's so much stuff, what should I check first? what's really relevant and what is not?"
So thanks for the update. Wonder how you come up with all these ideas on different stuff one can make without code.
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yeh totally and it was annoying me that it was just a load of tutorials in your face with no real paths to go down.
Well there's tons of startups every day that are launched or talked about (Product Hunt, Indie Hackers, TechCrunch, HackerNews, Reddit, etc). Even people on Twitter always say "I wish I could do this thing quicker or better"
So we look at apps, products, sites, others and figure out what would be cool to show.
E.g. youtubers is a big thing... so why don't we look at what interesting things youtubers have to do every day/week...how could we make some mini tools that youtubers can copy...how can we automate processes for a youtuber... why don't we make a youtube production tracker using Notion?! Yeah! let's do that...
That's sort of what a process may look like! One idea always sparks tons more ideas too so we have a huge backlog of them. And some things suit certain tools better, others can be built similarly on multiple tools. So it's endless!
p.s. that YouTube tutorial is a real one and will be posted today/tomorrow on makerpad.co :)
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Should've figured out myself that a site for makers will start with needs of makers and build from there 😆
Have you been trying out new customer acquisition channels lately or are you focused on the other end of the funnel? (like what the content of this post is about, making the product better to make people stay)
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ha yeah but things often accelerate quickly! Hard to stay on top of things.
Distribution is something I really need to look into and focus on. It may help with the latest version of Makerpad by having tutorials/content targeted towards YouTubers and wannabe YouTubers for the example above. Then we can try and explore ways to reach these folks. Still lots of experimenting to do
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I think I get your master plan (t̶o̶ ̶c̶r̶a̶s̶h̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶n̶e̶.̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶n̶o̶ ̶s̶u̶r̶v̶i̶v̶o̶r̶s̶): since youtubers are such a tightly-knit community (with one influencers doing videos with/about/against others and with their communities being constantly mixed) then if one youtuber shares what they learned from your tutorials the others will pick up and their audiences will follow.
Am I right?
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I’ll check the video!
Well that’s already the idea...you navigate through each via a job function or use case. So if you want to build a membership site, go through that section for those tutorials. Or search on the site navbar where it says “i want to build...”
Perhaps some sort of live chat may help here too.
Wonder how that could be more clear
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