$300K Generated with No-Code: A Platform's Success Story

💰 Jake Singer built a platform using no-code tools that has paid over $300,000 to newsletter writers.

🚀 Swapstack is a marketplace for newsletter writers to find advertisers.

💡 The marketplace idea came from the need to monetize newsletters and find sponsors.

🔧 They built the platform using Bubble and other no-code tools like Airtable, Slack, and Zapier.

🚀 After successfully connecting brands and writers, they aimed to scale and improve their product.

💼 The main goal is to deliver value to customers by connecting brands with writers and facilitating deals.

📈 To scale the value provided to customers, a product was built using a combination of no-code and low-code tools.

🔧 The product was developed using bubble, with some custom code and API connections, and additional tools like metabase and webflow.

🌐 Creating beautiful websites and front ends using a no-code platform.

💰 Validating the business model and finding paying customers.

🚀 Testing the market with no-code tools before scaling.

🔑 Utilizing a different platform with a shorter learning curve allowed them to quickly execute their first product.

💡 Entrepreneurship is a trial and error process that requires testing assumptions and iterating based on results.

💻 No code tools make the startup process more affordable, quicker, and accessible to non-technical individuals.