Fraser Gorrie advocates no-code first. He’ll write code when he has to, but only when he has to.

Find out how Fraser uses no-code to better serve his clients.

This is a continuation my series about no-code. If you’re interested in no-code, you can also check out Episode #004 with Lola Ojabowale: What is no‑code and why does it matter? You can listen to the audio or watch the video.

If you’d like to connect with Fraser, you can reach him on Twitter @frasergorrie or on his web site frasergorrie.com.

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This is one for all the Indie Hackers out there.

If you’re interested in starting a side hustle, or a full-on startup, you might be finding it hard to decide which of your dozens of business ideas you should focus on.

Here’s how I evaluate my own ideas.

I’ve made it into a free online tool, where you’ll be able to calculate a score for each of your ideas.

Do try out the tool on your ideas: it’s really easy to use.

And let me know what you think: what I got right, what I got wrong, and what I missed entirely.

Try the free online tool

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I’ve never been convinced that we really need web3.

You know, web3: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, smart contracts, NFTs and all that.

These blockchain technologies are all pretty nifty, but do we really need them?

Isn’t the blockchain just a seriously slow, extremely expensive, disastrously distributed database?

Well, something weird just happened to me that helped convince me that we do need web3.

It’s going to sound absurd, but bear with me.

There’s a point to all this, I promise.

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The full article is here.

I neglected my visualizations web site, things made thinkable, for too long. Here’s what I did to bring it back to life:

1. Fixed the aspect ratio
2. Made it reactive
3. Embraced SVG
4. Started a mailing list
5. Stopped reusing code
6. Switched to newer fonts
7. Reduced bloat
8. Added social meta tags
9. Started tweeting about it
10. Quit my jobs

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Animating PNG images: Prototype, script.aculo.us and jQuery

Animating SVG: Snap.svg

Web-safe fonts

My go-to fonts: Bellefair and Lato

Self-hosting fonts

Bloatware: jsSocials, Font Awesome and Google Analytics

Meta tags

My Twitter handle: @markjjeffery

Another of my podcasts: The Quit Work Podcast

Compare and contrast my first visualization:

Trillion Dollar Economies (circa 2010, 960px wide)

with my latest:

Rivers of the Atlantic (circa 2022, scalable)

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I’m the worst person to talk about no-code: I always want to code everything from scratch!

So I asked Lola Ojabowale from Lunch Pail Labs to help me out.

We talked about how the no-code revolution is helping people build everything from simple web sites to complex SaaS products, without writing a line of code.

And we talked about why it matters: how no-code makes software innovation permissionless and available to ever more people.

You can find links to all Lola’s content at lola.fyi or you can connect with her on Twitter at @ojabowalola.

Lola mentioned these no-code products:

• Bubble
• Atomic Fusion
• Yep.so – I love Yep’s value proposition: “Kill your terrible ideas faster.“
• Figma
• Zapier
• Integromat

Lola also mentioned Riverside, the product I used to record this podcast, because it’s a brilliant way to record high-quality audio and video. This is an affiliate link, so if you’re interested in using Riverside to record your own podcasts, I’d be forever grateful if you’d click here to check it out and support my podcasting at the same time!

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Today, I bought a mirror.

It cost $200. Not bad for a mirror, especially one this big.

How big? Well, I’m not sure exactly. Maybe 20 feet high? Maybe 200 feet high?

Truth is, I can’t see the mirror I bought, because it doesn’t exist in this universe.

It’s in the metaverse.

And, unfortunately, I can’t get there to go take a look.

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This is my first attempt to make sense of probably the most arcanely-named tech innovation ever: Non-Fungible Tokens.

You can check out the mirrors designed by J. Demsky at Anima.

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice. Tangled Web is about tech, not investment. It’s for information purposes only and you should not base any investment decisions on it. Do your own research.

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When we talk about the creator economy, we’re talking about people doing creative work, on their own or with a few others.

Here’s the thing.

If you’re not in the creator economy, I have some bad news for you: you’re out of a job. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But some day, and for the rest of your life.

Pretty soon, the creator economy, along with the caring economy, will be the economy.

That’s a good thing. Here’s why.

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“less than 3% of us are employed in textiles, farming and mining” – 2,349,000 in agriculture, 684,000 in mining and 444,000 in textiles out of a total of 147,795,000 employed in the US in 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics

There was a feeling, during the dot.com bust in the year 2000, that the web was over.

It wasn’t.

Back then, the web had only just begun.

There’s a feeling again now, with a few tech giants mediating so much of what we do online, that the web is all tied up.

It isn’t.

Even now, the web has only just begun.

Welcome to Tangled Web, a conversation about where we are now and where we’re going with the web.

I believe that the web will continue to evolve exponentially for decades to come.

I believe that the future web will be more free, more open and more human than ever.

On Tangled Web, I talk about the tech transformations that could change everything.

Join me for fresh insights into the future of the web every other week: subscribe to the free newsletter, podcast or YouTube channel at tangledweb.media

The web has only just begun.