Makerpad

Taimur Abdaal is the co-founder and CEO of Causal. Causal helps you build financial models effortlessly and share them with interactive, visual dashboards in a way that everyone will understand.

In this episode, Ben and Taimur discuss...

- The main use cases for Causal at startups

- The trend in engineering towards block based building.

- Measuring your economic impact

Nicolas Sharp is the CEO & Founder of Attio, which is a fully customisable workspace for your team's relationships and workflows. 

In this epsiode, Ben and Nicholas discuss...

- How Attio helps you set up a notification system for your internal processes and team's workflows.

- Remote work organizations and why workflows matter.

- Where the no-code industry is going according to Nicholas.

Arvid Kahl is the founder of The Bootstrapped Founder and author of Zero to Sold.

Previously, Arvid successfully built and sold Feedback Panda in 2019 after growing it to $55k MMR.

During this podcast replay from our live workshop, Tom and Arvid cover:

- Scaling your SaaS business

- Identifying a problem

- Finding your first users

- Selling your business

Arisa Amano is the co-founder and CEO of Internal, an internal tools platform that allows anyone to create without code, reducing dependence on engineering and enabling businesses to do more with less. Previously, Arisa was the Chief Product Officer and co-founder at Harbor, a cryptocurrency firm, and the VP of Product at Zenefits, a healthcare startup. Prior to that, she held product and marketing leadership roles at Yammer, Microsoft, VMware and MTV Networks.

Bob Remeika is the co-founder and CTO of Internal, a no-code internal tools platform. As an engineering leader with over 20+ years of experience, he’s seen firsthand the difficulties in prioritizing and resourcing internal tools projects, which spurred him to co-found a company to address the issue. Previously, Bob was the co-founder and CTO at Harbor, a cryptocurrency firm, and the VP of Engineering at Zenefits, a healthcare startup. Prior to that, he held various architect and engineering roles at Yammer, Grockit, Razorfish and Yahoo.

In this episode, Ben, Bob and Arisa discuss...

- Why Internal helps solve a crucial problem that Bob and Arisa saw during their time at Zenefits.

- Why team tools don't typically get as much love, and how Internal can help.

- How no-code lends itself to help you understand more technical aspects of work.

Albert Santalo is the founder of 8base, and is joined by their Product Manager Sebastian Scholl.

8base allows you to connect your enterprise data sources and expose them through a unified GraphQL API.

In this episode, Ben, Albert and Sebastian discuss...

- The back end of low-code and no-code

- Developers in the no-code space

- Micro-SAAS and Digital Agencies in no-code/low-code

Ankit Gordhandas is the founder and CEO of Intersect Labs.

Intersect Labs offers services that enable intelligent decisions involving machine learning from spreadsheet data in 3 clicks. Intersect Labs started with the simple idea that anyone who wants to make accurate predictions should be able to do it themselves.

In this episode, Ben and Ankit discuss...

- The convergence of no-code and data science

- Is data science just for big companies, or for startups?

- Using data as a non-technical person

- Using Intersect to predict, analyze and forecast with your data.

In this new series, Makerpad Deep Dives, we break down real-world solutions for you to clone inside your own organization. 

Today we have David Peterson from Airtable on to discuss how Makerpad and Airtable created a custom solution for Cottage – a San Francisco based company that helps home owners design, permit, and build Accessory Dwelling Units such as a guest house.

Cottage came to us with a problem that many companies, especially startups face: how to manage, track and automate complex projects. 

Using Hubspot, Airtable, and X.ai, Makerpad helped build a solution for them to automate & streamline complex, multi-party project management.

In this episode, Ben and David Discuss...

- Using Airtable for Project Management

- Airtable integrations and the process of building solutions for startups.

- More details on the process of solving real problems for freeing up time in organizations using no-code tools.

Sid was one of the first hires at Teachable (which recently sold for ~$250m) and the VP of Product there.

Sid started Circle in October last year with two other co-founders, both ex-Teachable. Circle is the modern community platform for creators, and is used by Makerpad (!). Other creator communities on Circle include Pat Flynn, Tiago Forte, David Perell, and Anne-Laure Le Cunff.

In this conversation, Ben and Sid discuss...

- Committing to new feature vs. keeping from technical debt

- Using integrations to give your users super powers

- When do you know when it's time to launch your app?

Greg’s an entrepreneur and VC currently running Late Checkout, a startup studio/agency trying to create startups by focusing on unbundling Reddit. He previously founded Islands (sold to WeWork).

In this episode, Ben and Greg Discus...

- Community vs. Audience

- Experimentation using no-code

- The Studio model for building and launching products

Max Lind is the GM of 8020. 8020 is a new agency focused on helping great companies move faster, without code.

In this episode, Ben and Max discuss...

- Using a wide variety of tools for your build and their tradeoffs

- Transparency in building as an Agency

- How 8020 works with Tiny Capital