Why pay for a course when you can (maybe) learn what you need from YouTube?
As someone who offers a paid course, this is often on my mind so let me share my thoughts here:
-
1. Who can you Trust?
How do you know who to listen to when anyone can post on YT? They may sound like
Launch alert 🚨
My team & I are proud to announce the launch of our
@bemicrobrave
MVP 🚀
Having built this product in just 3 days, we now believe in the
#buildinpublic
philosophy more than ever & we hope that you can join us on this journey 💯
🦁FREE:
It's launch day for
@nocodeforkids
! Max & I are super excited to start teaching kids how to become NoCoders so that they can truly change the world.
We are partnering with forward thinking Secondary schools in the UK, to start, and expanding from there...
✨🚀 Big Launch Day Today 🚀✨
Ready to massively level-up your NoCode game? It's a bit of a 🧵 but it's worth it...
🖐🏻Hands up if you identify with 1+ of these:
❓You're a dedicated
@webflow
'er
❓You're confident with visual web design
❓You've built some neat projects but...
With the new pricing changes announced by
@webflow
today, I'm pleased to see the dedicated Agency Plan emerge. Special mention: the "Free Guest Access" feature will allow us to, "Collaborate with clients in their Workspace as a guest at no additional cost on either side" = 💜🔥
I'm not nervous, you're nervous...
No seriously, I'm uber excited to be launching my new course today. I'll post a proper message soon when we're live & the 25 students eager to learn the WWX* Stack are underway.
@webflow
(W)
@wizedapp
(W)
@nocodebackend
(X / Xano)
10 minutes ago, a batch of 20 students started their journey into the world of NoCode by enrolling on our "NoCode Kids Programme" but this time it's different... This is the first cohort using our purpose built,
@getwized
@webflow
@nocodebackend
based LMS. Wish them & us luck!🍀
44 videos in my
@wizedapp
course. I hope you're ready people?
I've tried to capture the best bits from my 2 decades of being a web developer, ecommerce pro, Wized user & NoCoder generalist.
Come this Friday, my biggest, bestest course will be in my community members' hands...
OMG... DevLink🤯
Combining the power of
@webflow
Designer with React app building.
@bryantchou
's demo was super-lit!
I can barely breathe here.
#WebflowConf
is another level.
I'm proud to be speaking at the UK's first NoCode Conference in May 2024. If you can come, make sure to secure your tickets before they sell out. It's going to be a blast💥
If you were lucky enough to have attended
@webflowconf
in London this week, you'll have heard
@callmevlad
talk about how
@webflow
is a Web DEVELOPMENT platform. This is exciting to hear from the CEO of the company. Why? Multiple reasons:
1️⃣ It's already the best Web DESIGN
Thanks to all the people who have congratulated Dylan & myself on this new partnership🙌
It's our aim to build the best web apps possible, with the latest & greatest NoCode/LowCode technology like the WWX stack, for clients fully committed to
@webflow
.
My courses & other
I'm thrilled to announce that
@TheFlowAgency
has joined our team as Head of Apps! 🥳 Glenn will lead our web application projects, overseeing the development of scalable and powerful web experiences.
For those who may not know, Glenn is the leading educator in the Webflow,
I'm doing a small app build as part of
#nocodeweekend
just for the fun of it. Since
@glideapps
launched its
@airtable
integration I've been meaning to do a quick tutorial. This thread is a teaser for that. I'm building a little directory app to list some useful API resources 🧵👇🏻
Sorry to tease but I've just played with a new feature in Xano (coming soon to everyone) & web app building will never be the same again after this is released.
It's a bright future for WWX devs everywhere — you picked the right backend if you chose Xano!
If you're a
@webflow
bod & you want to start building web apps with Webflow you need to start playing around with
@wizedapp
TODAY! As a member of the beta test team, I can tell you that the next release is going to kickstart a huge wave of new Webflow Devs. S/O
@alexiglesias_me
Whew! What an experience🤯
Webflowers brought the fire 🔥 and the love 💜 to
@webflowconf
London today.
1. Finally meeting people I've known online for so many years was simply incredible so Thank You
@webflow
for making this happen.
2. I've had so many interesting
Seriously, there will never be a better platform than X when it comes to meeting & working with professional, positive, dedicated, friendly and powerful folk online.
I thank all of you whom I have met so far on my X journey as well as those of you I have yet to meet. You rock🤟
Just look at how beautiful, and yet more functional too, these UI changes are to your
@airtable
Bases👇🏻 From a new way to navigate & interact with your Automations and Interfaces to tightening up the padding and spacing on the table tabs, this is a welcome update.
Makers & founders don't know how to start building-in-public or have anxieties around it, even though it's a foolproof way to build community, get user feedback regularly, stay accountable, & tell your story authentically. We've been there & we're here to help. Join the waitlist
Here are the top 5 reasons to learn how to build web apps using
@webflow
&
@wizedapp
in 2024 as a Webflow Designer:
{1} Charge more for the same amount of time:
Being able to build advanced web app features on top of your Webflow designs means more value for your clients
It's a personal journey for all of us but I consider
@webflow
to be the Mother of all NoCode tools,
@nocodebackend
/ Xano to be the Father, &
@wizedapp
to be the youngster of the family.
Although each one is powerful, it's only when combined that they can achieve anything.
Who uses
@n8n_io
for their automation flows? Has the lack of a publicly available API stopped you using it? Well, they have sorted that out for you now so there's nothing stopping you from automating the automations
At a certain point in your NoCode journey, you're going to get deeper into database design than you planned! Here's a tool to turn your tables, fields & relationships into a neat diagram & it's WAY easier to maintain than a Figma or Miro file, I promise.
It struck me last night: why would you use a "database" like Xano over Airtable in your NoCode projects? The simple answer is that Xano is not a database!
The more complete answer is below so if you're curious, and you should be, read on...
🧵
Just had the best news for the
@webflow
community:
@thatsfinsweet
has acquired
@getwized
to help us all become web app (visual) developers starting this week
Get on the waitlist here:
Lots of cloneables to come too, all Client First V2
THIS. IS. HUGE.
After 25 years in business I can tell you one thing for sure: if you become really good, even one of the best, at what you do your customers or clients will happily pay whatever you charge.
I'm working with a supplier, an agency, at the moment and what they're creating makes the
Big update from
@relume_io
as their Chrome Extension now lets you insert their components inside
@webflow
Designer so no more hopping between their website and your project:
When you add
@outseta
to your
@webflow
project to handle your membership features, you often benefit from sync'ing your member data with a CMS Collection therein.
Outseta has made this easy for you! Just use the new app in the Webflow Marketplace (link below).
Quick demo👇🏻📽
✨Hey NoCoders: here's how to start getting your head wrapped around the brand new ChatGPT API from
@OpenAI
released over the past 24 hours...
(plus it's a test of
@screenstudioapp
v2 as that's also just been released😉)
Team
@biodotlink
has created a neat app to help your fans gift you as creators:
@giftappdotcom
I've created an account & added my "Books To Read" wishlist from Amazon to show you how it works. If you gift me, I'll read it + buy a copy for someone else👇
🎉Happy Friday NoCoders, Webflowers (
@webflow
), Wizards (
@getwized
) & Xanoists (
@nocodebackend
)
Time for my latest video diary entry showing how I'm approaching v2 of the NoCode Kids LMS using the awesome tools above. Today, it's the Student Dashboard👀
After 1.5 weeks, here's an update on my WWX course
#buildinpublic
style & I think it just shows how hungry
@webflow
'ers are to learn & apply
@wizedapp
+
@nocodebackend
in their lives:
1️⃣ Out of 25 course members enrolled, 82% have made a start
2️⃣ Avg. User Progress is 21%. The
Big up to everyone studying a new skill this weekend whether you're a student of my course or not.
It's easy to sit around & stay the same in life; it can be frustrating learning something new, even stressful. The person who sticks at it is rewarded with transformation.
Choose
Will you look at that? Our first episode of our first podcast 🎙️ on Spotify.
@nocodelife
(Kieran),
@jamesdevonport
(James) & I talk about the early stages of building 3 different SaaS businesses. Topics we're covering: tools, marketing, audience & more.
You heard it here first:
@callmevlad
from
@webflow
just told the community that this Summer (Northern Hemisphere) is going to be HOT... In relation to the release of their Logic features 🔥💜
OMG...
#ODNC1
,
#buildinpublic
,
@thisiskp_
,
@beondeck
, the whole of Cohort 1 (120+ people) on this incredible new programme - it was off the charts! The kickoff just now was crazy good and now we're all more excited than ever to do this. Watch this space for unicorns...
The simplest things can make all the difference between a user being frustrated by your web app features or delighted by them.
@wizedapp
's CTO,
@alexiglesias_me
, has just launched a new tiny feature update that demonstrates this idea perfectly👇
Why am I creating a course right now? Is it because I have lots to share of value? Sure but that's not why I'm doing this...
I see people all over the world looking towards web design & development as the way to improve their lives and they're all-in, you know? Is this
I'll be live on
@webflow
's livestream in 4 hours or so if anyone wants to see how we used Memberships, Webflow's newest feature set, to build an LMS within Webflow? I'll demo users, gated content, some NoCode magic & more. See you there?
Join us later on the livestream to see how we built the NoCode Kids Learning Management System MVP in Webflow using the Memberships beta. That sentence is more complicated than the build (!) — it's that easy to build with Memberships 😀
Twitter is so quiet today... Is everyone still here? Maybe you're all travellling to
@webflowconf
😆 I'm just checking there's still a world outside my office so feel free to respond to my ping!!
As the official first person to complete my WWX course, I'm very proud to see Alaba take the lessons learned & expand on them himself to create his first real WWX app 🤩 And now to see him build in public, publish to YouTube, post here, he's an inspiration to other Webflowers.
I'm tweeting this solely to mark this day, for my future self to look back on, because I believe that something exciting & vital to my life was seeded today. Over the coming weeks & months I'll divulge more, I promise (and it's kinda the point of what I'm talking about to do so!)
Xano's Realtime features are here🥳🔥😎
I've started testing Realtime / WebSockets & it's going to give us so many more opportunities to build advanced apps. First up? A chat app, of course...
R1.59 of Xano is here! 🎉
This release includes powerful features and enhancements to take your building experience to the next level. Here's what's new:
- 📲 Realtime (WebSockets) Beta - We're excited to share this highly anticipated feature with you early in its development
Calling all NoCode automators & integrators: Make (formerly known as Integromat) has launched on
@ProductHunt
today. Take a visit & look out for their promo code which gets you 1 month of their Pro plan incl. 80,000 operations (quite a lot) for FREE🥳
How my WWX course has been received by the
@webflow
@wizedapp
&
@nocodebackend
communities so far...
📥 177 people have signed-up to the waitlist
💯 100% have been invited to 1 of 3 Groups
👋 88 people have paid & joined
🧮 49.72% conversion rate
👥 Many want to join still
For those who heard me talk about just how good HEY Calendar is last month, & why I switched to it, this announcement makes it even more useful as you sync up your multi-calendar events. Seriously, this app is the best I've ever seen & I used to work for a calendar company!
Just shipped a top-requested HEY Calendar feature. You've been able to subscribe to external .ics feeds since day 1, but now you can subscribe to HEY Calendars via .ics too. This means you can add your HEY Calendars to other calendar systems (read-only).
New Course Lessons: I'm releasing these as fast as I'm recording them today!
Invites to start the course will go out this afternoon too so look out for the email but for my existing community members, who get this course for free ('cos they're smart), you have access to it now!
Part of my Monday routine is helping out NoCoders in need for free. Today, a fellow
@thatsfinsweet
community member asked, "Can we apply the Attributes Filter on a combined CMS Collection" (from multiple Collections). I didn't know, but I knew it would only take 30 mins so...
For those who know me, you'll know I've been raving about Screen Studio since the start. Now Adam is in the process of adding Loom-like features so you have no excuse NOT to buy into it! It's easily the best screen recorder + presentation software in the world💜
Sharable links sneak peak!
Here's the entire flow - when exporting, you can select "Get sharable link" - then, when exporting is done - browser will open with your link, which you can copy and send to others.
📨That's the 41 invites sent out to people on the Group 2 Waitlist for my Webflow, Wized & Xano (WWX) course. There's only room for 30 so if you're one of the invitees, I suggest you signup quickly! Group 3 will not start for another few weeks so if you're keen, act quickly⚡
Quick note to self: despite building with NoCode being 10x easier than coding, you will get times when things just don't seem to work (for days) & you don't know why. You WILL figure it out, esp. because the NoCode vendors & community are the best, so don't lose hope😬
I hope I'm not scooping the story
@mariam_hakobyan
/
@softr_io
but this is too exciting to not share on Twitter NoCode as it's a much-anticipated feature! Softr now supports User Group AND Field Level Permissions for editing your records... direct to
@airtable
Great update from
@webflow
today:
💥Persistent CMS ID's when you restore from backups
This one's been a while coming and sooooo many NoCoders have fallen foul of breaking their automations when innocently restoring a backup.
Well now you can restore with confidence. Ahhhhh
🪄Learn to Build Anything Online
With my Black Friday deal:
I teach a course on the WWX stack — Webflow, Wized & Xano — the first of its kind in the world no less.
It enables you to build any kind of web app you desire & you can get it for FREE if you're smart...
I'm slightly exhausted, but ultimately extremely hyped to be watching this keynote by
@webflow
/
@nocodeconf
. Users, Memberships/Subscriptions, Gated Content, Logic/Workflows... this has been a HUGE announcement today and we're all quite emotional right now 🥲
Heads up WWX'ers👀
Xano has just released their "Getting Started with Xano" guide. It's text + images only so it's easy to read quickly & follow along in order to, well, get started with your Xano account!
Many people ask me how to learn Xano. From now I'll say read this first
📚 New beginner resource alert!
Introducing our brand-new 'Getting Started with Xano' guide! 🔥
This step-by-step guide is perfect for beginners and new users who want to quickly get comfortable using Xano and explore its full potential. 🛠️
This guide covers:
- 💻 Setting up
This is the kind of downtime you welcome with open arms 🤗
@wizedapp
projects will soon be limitless, just like a traditional codebase is, meaning that you can add as much logic / as many actions as you need to your web app.
As part of the WWX stack, we need Wized to scale📈
.
@integromat
's first set of triggers & actions for the recently launched API from
@NotionHQ
are now available NoCoders 👇 What will you automate now that you finally have this in your toolbox?
I've pre-ordered my copy of
@anafabrega11
's new book THE LEARNING GAME
Partly to help guide me as I, in turn, guide my children; partly to learn more from Ana as I teach kids how to NoCode. Gotta keep the love of learning alive
Learn more about it here:
Someone please build this:
A member space where Creators who don't have enough time to build their side projects can be matched with other Creators who DO have the time & skills to build those projects for them (or with them).
I'm so busy focusing on my main ideas, none of my
Where it all began... throwback to NoCode Conf 2019 😍 4 years later,
@webflowconf
is about to start its world tour with the first keynote. Let's go,
@callmevlad
🚀
Pretty stoked to see 2 indie developers & their apps in the new "
@airtable
for Marketing Teams" line-up when you login to your Base!
@NoCodeJac
's "Publish" app +
@clokehead
's
@data_fetcher
app are both extremely useful products to supercharge your integrations & automations🎉
📣 I've just sent out 19 emails to people on my new WWX course waitlist for Group 2. They're doing the smart thing but why?
✅ They have a desire to really level-up their
@webflow
skills.
but why?
✅ They know that being able to build web apps using Webflow is going to be big
Webflowers: we all knew this was coming but to see the wishlist item for the
@webflow
"users/accounts" feature change to "in development" should make some of you smile. Happy Friyay!
YES! 🥳 Time for a mini-celebration on a Friday afternoon for cracking a crucial step in the rebuild of our LMS for
@nocodeforkids
Quick summary of how I'm using the Webflow CMS in an unconventional way:
💙 1. Create/update course content in a
@webflow
Collection in the project
It never gets boring watching an automation update a client's
@airtable
Base with
@Shopify
order data. Here, order fulfilment status data is sync'ing over to keep their single-source-of-truth, well... truthy!
In case I don't make it through to midnight, this is my gratitude tweet to everyone with whom I worked, collaborated, talked & met by chance in 2022 who helped to make my year memorable & enjoyable. I look forward to our collective best year yet; 2023 will go down in history🙏💜
Not to scare anyone who is going to take my WWX course soon but the Coda doc I'm using to create the content incl. video scripts has hit 20,000 words.
If I don't help you to become a Visual Webflow Developer by the end of this course I'll eat my hat!
@thatsfinsweet
@wizedapp
I've had a fairly large box arrive today that'll transform how I work. Here's the instruction manual. Try not to be jealous (I have terrible internet connectivity where I live so I've waited long enough for this!) 😋
Well this is interesting
@webflow
/ Webflowers👀
Creating personalised experiences for our website & web app users has been the Holy Grail for decades now but it's hard to achieve.
With this acquisition, Webflow are extremely well set to finally solve this for all of us💙
🚀 Imminent Launch Alert...
Tomorrow (Friday 5/5), I'll be launching a brand new idea and it's part of a real shift in approach for me and, hopefully, a real opportunity for many of you here so watch this space.
More deets tomorrow as I need to knuckle down and get it ready🤓
📢Introducing "CRUD Action Buttons" in
@softr_io
Softr are in the process of rolling out the ability to Add, Edit & Delete your data source's records via their new Action Buttons which makes building your web app even more comprehensive...
Phew... Today, I've migrated my largest
@make_hq
client (from the Integromat platform) & without wanting to tempt fate — as I'm a little superstitious — it went 100% according to plan. So now I'm suspicious🤨
I've said it before: the Make Migration Tool is an awesome bit of kit.
Friday Feels: I've never known another company to be as "open" as
@thatsfinsweet
. They genuinely care about their product users, welcome feedback, work closely with beta testers, deliver beyond expectations & obviously love what they do. Big S/O to
@joekrug
,
@alexiglesias_me
& co
@thesamparr
@marvy_101
I love that not only did you have time for him after chasing you down, many wouldn't, but you're actively helping him progress his career. Respect Sam
Well I WAS planning on a productive work day but after receiving this message, I doubt I'll manage it😆 Been looking forward to this one for a few months...
On my WWX course I teach you how to think like a Webflow Developer & how to build data-backed features (we go pretty deep), but we don't design the web app on purpose... THESE guys will teach you all you need to know about frontend design so you can make your web app stunning!
Calling all
@webflow
'ers: I've been so impressed with this tool since I first saw it & used it. Soon, v2 is going to blow you away! Don't let this one pass you by 👀
This is just to say a "big thanks" to those of you who joined Group 3 of my WWX course this week🙌
It's a privilege meeting each & every one of you and being your course instructor. I take my role very seriously because I want more for all of you.
Let's go🚀
There's Webflow development & there's Webflow development... this is the latter😉
@webflow
's DevLink beta has been launched today: a way for your Webflow design components to become React components if you're ready to learn a bit.
e.g. New Component properties, props & slots👇🏻
My 4 y.o. just left the house to go on an outing with a family friend and said to me, "Bye Daddy! I don't mind what you work on today just make sure it's exciting!".
So that's what I'll be doing. I mean, you can't let down your kids after all.
All-in-one NoCode tools can attract scepticism 'cos surely we're supposed to stitch 5 tools together every time, right? I say no. If the platform stays open to other tools via an API or Webhooks then you'll save yourself a ton of time like
@outseta
,
@bildrHQ
,
@AdaloHQ
,
@softr_io
You'll probably see a lot of buzz around the launch of Make (
@make_hq
) today. This thread might help you to understand what's going on👇🏻
1/
First of all, Make is now the brand name, as well as the flagship product name, for the new version of Integromat.
Remembering my father today: I lost him last July quite suddenly aged 78.
He was a jet fighter pilot, led aerobatic display teams (Lightnings), a Captain with British Airways, a sports biker & a supportive, inspirational father.
Here's to all the Dads x
So my new "WWX-M Crash Course" starts this week. Here are the draft lessons queued for those of you who signed-up*
This is going to be pretty rapid as it's designed to help the
@finsweet
@wizedapp
+
@memberstack
competition entrants (mainly) & they only have 2 weeks to launch!
@MarcelDeelen
@webflow
May I offer a third option? I tend to add a custom date field and use that for sorting & display as you know you'll always have full control over it. Small overhead for a big win.
If anyone uses
@webflow
& wants to build web apps using it, your day has finally come...
I've just shown my support on PH for this incredible product & if you can see the potential + value I can see with it, I'm sure you'll want to do the same. This is part of NoCode 2.0 IMHO
We're live on Product Hunt today! 😍
Please share your thoughts over there and help to make Wized the best solution for building web applications with Webflow! 💙
Guess how easy it is to build a text chat feature in your
@getwized
v2 app. Yep—really easy!
Our "Cohort Chat" only shows messages from within the cohort in which our students are enrolled; stores all messages in
@nocodebackend
; no 3rd party apps req'd
📹
Hot take in NoCode: work with early stage founders who are building incredible products; support them (financially if poss.); test their products for them. Not only do you meet some amazing, grateful people, you get the opportunity to influence what they build = a total win-win.
🔥As a registered partner with
@make_hq
— formerly known as Integromat — it's exciting to be part of their new platform launch today!
Make is all the best bits from Integromat blended with new features like "live-stream execution details" (more on this later) + a brand new API💜