12 months ago I was a public school teacher - - - Now I’m on track to make $550,000 this year alone with
#nocode
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Ok yeah utterly blown away by this video
I was not prepared for this. I already thought
@coda_hq
was leaps ahead of all other
#nocode
platforms but this is something entirely different
Buckle up
In January I was a public high school teacher.
Now I make 4x what I did before thanks to
#nocode
and Coda specifically
It’s been an utterly wild year. Should I do an end of the year review of how I got here?
Yesterday was big - The numbers may be small but I hit:
~ 500 followers on Twitter
~ 100 Subscribers to my Youtube channel
~ First $100 on Gumroad
Thanks all!
Just turned down a $13,5000 contract
The client wanted to work with us, we had contracts out, but in the end I decided to pull the trigger and step away.
Thinking through opportunity cost is often the easiest way to make these tough decisions.
What is at stake if I ACCEPT
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#NoCode
#buildinpublic
Im in love with anything having to do with an
#API
I love reading documentation and the moment a call works, it feels like pure magic. API's truly are the greatest part of
#nocode
workflows and tools
I want to make one - is that possible?
SimplaDocs just hit $1 million dollars in Life Time Revenue
A bit about our journey and the people I have to thank along the way 👇
I started SimplaDocs back in 2022 after using
@coda_hq
for quite some time in my personal job as a Special Education Teacher in high school
My
The Coda School launched today in beta
It’s my first real product launch and took 6 months of dedicated work to get here.
Amazing results - unreal. Going to share more soon, just gotta wrap my mind around what happened first.
#nocode
#buildinpublic
#nocode
folks - I want to build a website. But I want to find the perfect balance of ease of development AND flexibility.
@webflow
is too advanced for what I want now
@carrd
is too simple and not flexible enough
What’s the perfect middle ground?
I made a 180k salary as a full time internal
@airtable
and
#lowcode
expert in 2022
Full time positions at companies for individuals with
#nocode
and low-code skills are only going to become more common
What happens to the
#nocode
world if a platform goes out of business?
Aka if
@bubble
or
@coda_hq
go out of business - what are options for people who have staked their business or career on those platforms?
Anyone worried about that risk?
Im hiring someone. An actual job. Its gonna be awesome
You'll get a front row seat to a growing agency and learn a TON about
@coda_hq
Wanna apply? All details and application below:
Appreciate any reposts to spread the word!
@coda_hq
has changed the trajectory of my life
Prior to working with Coda I wasn't able to afford a home for my family and had NO hopes of doing so. Now Im well on the path to provide for my two kids in way I'd never thought possible before
But I didn't get here alone 👇 🧵
Closing in on $1000 in revenue from
@coda_hq
packs!
I have zero technical background but taught myself to code last year simply so I could make a Coda pack for
@Strava
and now im here
So excited to see this number and the community appreciation for my packs thus far
#nocode
Alright I want to get more serious about my
@YouTube
game
I really need help with my thumbnails - At least I think I do?
Anyone out there recommend a good thumbnail designer?? Willing to pay!
So many people are sleeping on
@coda_hq
If you think it’s another Notion, think again
If you think it’s a another Airtable, think again
It’s so so much more. If you haven’t explored it yet, what’s stopping you?
#nocode
Angry about the
@airtable
changes, focus, and pricing?
I just recorded a BEHEMOTH of a video on how to migrate all your Airtable bases to
@coda_hq
Its everything you need to get started including covering:
* How to migrate
* How table views work in Coda
* How linked records
@ShaanVP
I use
@coda_hq
to automate my agency and digital product sales
Overall I connect 6 different services within Coda and have stopped using Zapier 🙏
Stripe
Coda
ConvertKit
Gmail
Gumroad
Airtable
And more! All automated in Coda.
Warning for all
#nocode
people out there!
If you keep at this long enough, you will inadvertently find yourself in a space that is most definitely NOT no-code
This was my whole afternoon 👇
For real though - the best decision I ever made as a "no-coder" was stepping more fully
Officially made my first $ via a
@coda_hq
pack!
It may be small but for someone who's background is not in tech its a big step! Excited to see whats to come with Coda Packs in the upcoming years
$2.62 MRR!
#nocode
#saas
I never could have imagined they day where I reached 1k+ subscribers on youtube!
I got my teachers credential 7 years ago now - back then I could never have imagined switching careers, building Coda docs for a living, and starting a youtube channel
Its been a wild ride
Woah - Another huge leap
2-way syncing, Coda AI out of beta and 1000 other small updates.
@coda_hq
4.0 is a huge leap forward for this product
What questions do you have about Codas big launch today? 👇
Are your
@airtable
Automations erroring and causing disruptions in workflows? - - - I created a
@coda_hq
that acts as a dashboard to monitor Airtable Automation Errors across 100+ bases automatically.
#buildinpublic
#nocode
For weeks now I have not been able to create any new
@coda_hq
packs
The button to create new packs simply didn’t work for me? I just met with a Coda employee and it turns out I reached the limit of 50 packs built!
They will raise it - but I feel proud to have found that limit
I built a thread/tweet scheduling tool entirely on
@coda_hq
Ive decided to give the template away completely for free! Putting on some finishing touches right now and recording a quick how-to video
Watch out for it early next week 👀
#nocode
Looking to hire an experienced
@flutterflow
front end dev for a project with
@supabase
as backend
Is that you? Do you know someone?
Post below if interested!
Alright. Officially planning a
@coda_hq
course.
Im getting asked nearly every day now when it’s coming out. It will be a while though - I want it thorough and I want it perfect.
Let me know what style you want the content delivered in below! Taking suggestions!
#nocode
🎉 Launch day!! 🎉
Ive created 9 incredible
@coda_hq
templates that use Coda AI and am giving them away for FREE
You can find them all here
Or learn more about each one in the thread 🧵
$41,000 - A good first year for
@CodaSchool_hq
!
A quick report on The Coda Schools first year in business
Total students: 114 have joined the course!
Total Revenue: $41,157
Total Expenses: $6,000
Currently - The Coda School offers a deep dive into Coda for the more
We almost launched Coda School today!
Then I said nahhhhhhh - Fridays are a horrible day to launch a product you’ve been working on for close to a year.
I think we’ll launch Tuesday. That feels right
Would you have done the same? Is Friday a bad day to launch?
#buildinpublic
Im considering including a unit on "Making your own Pack" in my upcoming
@coda_hq
course
Would anyone be interested in that?
Im making 2 packs simply to support the management of the course itself so thought it might be fun to show you how to do the same
#buildinpublic
#nocode
I’m coming for you
@zapier
- I WILL make a
@coda_hq
pack for you so users/teams can audit, and easily keep thorough documentation on their network of Zaps. Anyone interested in a use case like that?
@jordan_ross_8F
Why do you pay so little? That feels unethical to me - shouldn’t we celebrate how well we can treat those who work for us as opposed to how cheaply we can accomplish our end?
The Coda School - My end to end
@coda_hq
course has a logo!
Its coming along nicely and we are hoping to launch our first course late 2022
(oh and we have a twitter:
@CodaSchool_hq
)
#nocode
#buildinpublic
My Twitter Analytic doc on
@coda_hq
now takes an inventory of your tweets every single day, tracks follower growth. . .
AND with the push of a button opens your most impactful tweet of the day so YOU can get more insight into what tweets are having impact
#nocode
#automation
The more I push the boundaries with what
@coda_hq
can do, the more it truly is becoming a
@zapier
replacement for me
Here's a 6 step process with 3 different services Im automating with Coda 👇🧵
#nocode
#automation
My first sale using
@lmsqueezy
!
A premium
@coda_hq
template for $299
Excited to see this template start getting in the hands of more agencies and freelancers! Its the personal template our team uses to run our entire consulting operations
I’ve almost polished up my
@Calendly
replacement built entirely in
@coda_hq
Calendar integrations, timezone support, automatic calendar invites,
#automations
and more.
Still trying to decide what to do with it. Share it? Sell it? Make a video about it?
#buildinpublic
#nocode
I will not
#hustle
today or build
#nocode
products. Instead I think I’ll go get my 4 year old son a whip cream from the coffee shop and ask him all sorts of questions about his life
6 Months ago I was a public school teacher --- Now through
#nocode
I've 4x my previous salary.
How did I do it?
While not the whole story,
@coda_hq
put together this blog telling part of my journey to become a nocode builder!
Any other ❓ on my story?
I’m all down for AI - I think it’s an amazing technology and will change the way we work
BUT
I’m about to stop using twitter due to the obscene amount of “99% of people don’t know how to use chat-gpt for ____, Here’s how. . .”
Twitter - we need an intervention
Lifetime sales of
@coda_hq
templates: $1521
I may not be a
@TomFrankly
yet, but I know this is the long game and we just started
Also stoked about this dashboard that is automatically kept in live-sync with multiple sources of data via webhooks, built of course on Coda
Who needs
@zapier
when you have
@coda_hq
?
When a form is submitted (based on form-submission automation trigger), Coda hits these 6 buttons in a row which call on 4 separate packs to deliver something AMAZING to you
Coming soon in the
@CodaSchool_hq
@timduncaan
I've already implemented this in
@coda_hq
- Except its even better
Theres no need to hire any virtual assistant, you just use a Tik-API pack for Coda
Just ask
@KasparCMS
- He knows whats up, He's the absolute genius when it comes to anything TikTok
I love
#nocode
- but I also really love
#coding
There’s room for both and they are both valuable pursuits!
Where are the no code people learning to code? Or where are the traditional coders learning to no-code? Are you one of them?
Getting to make
@coda_hq
docs for a living is an absolute dream
If building Coda docs all day long sounds like a dream way to support yourself or your family (and you consider yourself a Coda pro) - reach out below!
Im looking for some help!
#nocode
Custom domain support for
@coda_hq
docs is now out in beta!
What we know so far:
* It only works on published discoverable docs
* Its awesome
Testing it out today on some of my docs and will give a more full rundown soon
What do you want to know? Ask me anything!
#nocode
Simpladocs' largest proposal to date!
Proposal is officially out, and now its just cross-fingers time.
It will also be for one of our first app builds with a full stack of:
*
@coda_hq
*
@flutterflow
*
@nocodebackend
Wish us luck twitter fam
We've come up with a name!
The all-things
@coda_hq
course I am building will the called "The Coda School" - Signaling that it won't just be a single course, but a one stop shop to become an absolute Coda Pro
Signups are coming in! Sign Up in thread 👇🧵
#nocode
#buildinpublic
Probably the most wild thing I've ever built
Input mere sentences about a text you want drafted, select options for how the style, tone, and length of the text should be
🤯 And then AI Instantly drafts it for you
Wave 👋 and like this post and the templates yours!
#ai
#NoCode
Want to turn your freelancing gig into an agency and increase profits?
I started as a freelancer charging $20 an hour and am now closing in on 550k in Revenue for this calendar year as an agency owner
Ive learned SO MUCH in my years in the business - and also have made so many
Unbelievable
I had to create a gigantic table in
@coda_hq
today with TONS of columns.
I just had Coda AI generate the table for me in less than 5 seconds with all appropriate columns 🤯
Thrilled (and honestly surprised) to have been one of the winners at the
@coda_hq
AI challenge
Thanks
@shreyas
for the Vote and Coda for well, being Coda.
Your vision of AI and work is legendary to say the least.
A new front-end option for
@nocodebackend
is ready for 2024!
With the new 2-way sync pack for Xano<>Coda, you can leverage all of
@coda_hq
's powerful formulas, dashboards, and integrations with Xano as your scalable backend
Check it out in the next tweet 👇
#webapp
#nocode
Wondering how to turn your
#nocode
hobby into a full time 6 figure career?
Enterprises are increasingly hiring full-time internal no-code builders. Keep building and pushing your own boundaries.
In a couple years you will be in very high demand
#career
2 way live sync between
@coda_hq
tables is here
It happens automatically, even between tables with 100s of columns
Probably my greatest Coda accomplishment to date. Check it out in the doc below, including full instruction video!
Still paying 10% to Gumroad? Want to learn to sell your own
@coda_hq
templates?
See how I automated and connected 4 different services and completely replaced
@gumroad
with my own home-made
@coda_hq
template store
#nocode
#automation
My
@YouTube
channel (all things
@coda_hq
) has only been around for around a month - blown away by the support Im getting from you all
~ 195 subscribers in 1 month
~ 74 hours of watch time
What else do yall want to see? What types of videos should I record?
#nocode
#automation
In my 6 years of
@coda_hq
building I have never been so excited for a new feature as I have been for this.
This is game-changing
Personalized Canvas-based filters and controls. Now your controls don't need to disrupt your teams workflows. 🤯
#NoCode
There's a movement happening
Notion lovers are realizing Coda exists and that it's wayyyyy rad. All I've got to say is that if you love
@NotionHQ
you are REALLY going to love
@coda_hq
Join the movement. Make the switch
#nocode
If you are a power-user of
@coda_hq
, your day is about to get a whole lot better
You can now comment in your formulas
This allows you to better document longer and more complex formulas. Did not expect this, but so happy
Almost done migrating off
@gumroad
- building a full blown Gumroad clone on. . .
@coda_hq
of course! Its time to ditch those high fees on Gumroad!
Some more premium templates coming your way
#nocode
#buildinpublic
In a previous position I was never paid over $20k that I was promised. Got scammed
Being the founder now of SimplaDocs I aim to treat everyone who works for me with the utmost integrity
Proud to say I’ll pay out over $15k to my
@coda_hq
experts this month alone! 👇
#startup
Lets go!!
Just landed our first customer who will be using
@nocodebackend
and as their unified backend with
@coda_hq
as their front end
The team has grown/scaled beyond what Coda can hold, and also needs a separate front end for their clients (
@webflow
specifically).
BUT they
28 followers in one day!
Thank you
@coda_hq
for helping me keep better analytics on my twitter growth
Building out a twitter growth and analytics doc! Its coming along nice so far. Hoping to get it all to you in 1 month!
#NoCode
#twittergrowth
#buildinpublic
In 2022 I taught myself to code so I could make a
@coda_hq
pack
Since then I've made over $30,000 from pack building
⭐Now Im going to teach you how to build your own⭐
Join over 60 people this Thursday and learn how to build your own Twitter pack!
I've quietly had a
#saas
built entirely on
@coda_hq
with about ~20 active users for the past year
I just simply don't have the time to grow it, market it, etc. Anyone who is interested in that kind of stuff want to partner to see if it can grow??
#marketing
#nocode
If you are building in
@coda_hq
and still calling yourself a no-coder than you are selling yourself short!
Codas formula language is programming - plain and simple
#nocode
#lowcode
Got big things planned for this AI template store
ALL TEMPLATES FOR FREE!
8 down, and only 20 more to go.
Interested in amazing
@coda_hq
AI templates? Coming soon. . . aka next week, to a Twitter near you
I just replaced a software worth > $2 billion dollars with a Coda doc
I've been playing around with my
@Calendly
replacement in Coda for a while, but put it to the side for some months for some other pursuits
Not anymore. Coming soon. . .
#NoCode
I saved a company over 675 hours a year with 1
@coda_hq
doc
I then told
@OpenAI
to write a tweet thread for me about it.
Heres what our AI friend said 👇
Took my first week off as a full time
@coda_hq
creator
So great to get out of the office and onto the bike (my preferred vacation)
Longevity as a creator, freelancer, etc is dependent on balance. If you aren’t finding times to step away - you’ll burnout.
I may not have a single video uploaded yet. But I've got 16 subscribers to my
@YouTube
channel!
First video planned: How to use the
@airtable
pack to create beautiful visualizations of your Airtable data in a
@coda_hq
doc.
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