Makerpad

Jan is a product designer currently working on making the future be NO-CODE at Webflow, while traveling around the world.

Best known products across the design community are currently Dashboard UI Kit 3.0 and Dashboard UI Kit (selling over 4000 sold copies!!).

Ben and Jan sit down to chat in detail about building beautiful and functional design with no-code, diving into some specific project examples. This episode is about going into the details of a project so you learn and get inspired to build your own.

You can check out some of Jans recent projects can be found on Dribbble and Behance or UI Kits online.

Founded in 2012, Bubble was created with the goal of making coding obsolete. Bubble is a great example of a grassroots company that is bootstrapped and profitable. The Bubble community has grown to 200K + users, with hundreds of thousands of web-apps built.

Emmanuel is originally from France and started his career as a management consultant in China. He moved to the USA to attend Harvard Business School and towards the end of his time there he met his co-founder Josh who was looking for a partner to work on what is now bubble.

In this episode, Ben & Emmanuel dive into how Bubble is changing access to non-technical founders, the rise and rise of no-code and the future possibilities in the space.

Kenny helps people go from idea to product quickly. As the founder and a mentor on Mentor Pass. Prior to mentoring startups, and building companies, Kenny was mentoring large companies as a technology consulting manager and agile coach at Accenture.

Mentor Pass is a website that matches founders with the right kind of coach. You can connect with experts in each specific area (like funding or operations) and you only pay by the time you use as you go. Top advice at an affordable price.

Today, Ben and Kenny sit down to discuss the making of Mentor Pass, his experience with no-code tools and get into the weeds of the stack used, the challenges, and why it's easier to create than ever before using no-code tools.

Vlad Magdalin is the founder and CEO of Webflow, a company that is working on empowering designers and entrepreneurs to design, build, and launch websites and applications without having to learn how to code.

Webflow has grown to be the platform at the very heart of the no-code movement and in this conversation, Ben and Vlad talk about the marketplace, the potential and about all things building and creating online.

You can find all the details and links mentioned in this interview at Makerpad.co/podcast and you can start building on Webflow at webflow.com

Serial entrepreneur Joseph Cohen launched Universe as a no-code, mobile-only website builder to help nearly 400,000 people easily build websites via its grid editor on the go.

A graduate of Y Combinator's Winter 2018 class, Universe raised $7.2 million from firms like Box Group and General Catalyst. Plus an addition Series A raise of $10m from GV - Closed at the beginning of April 2020.

Ben & Joseph talk all things Universe, capital raising, no-code and the future of building digital products.

The no-code movement is so much more than building a small side project for yourself or a few others. It's about empowering the 99% of us who can't code or just don't have the time or want to build something quickly and validate it. So this podcast is about showing you the behind the scenes of the people who built the tools and why they built them, their stories and what's possible. Check out our show and if you enjoy what you're hearing, rate us and subscribe. Thanks!