Motion in Product

No-code has helped me understand tech better. Prior to this YouTube channel, as a designer I worked with teams on Stripe billing and payment features. No-code provides a layer of abstraction on code but by making videos has forced me to learn the details youtu.be/XufSW-03uJ0

@yelkhayami AI, slides, and rounded corners

can someone tldr figma config for me

It's ok to relax about the release of an app when you haven't done the marketing for it. Nobody will care if you hit that date or not. Just your personal pride. It's better to take it easy when you can in life.

Loving the coding assistance from Flutterflow. You can use the function settings to get the right shape of the function for arguments especially when dealing with custom data types. Having AI code copilot right in the tool also helps get coding quicker

@johnrushx Real advice shared. Thank you 🙏

If only someone told me this before my first startup: 1. Validate idea first. I wasted a decade building stuff nobody needed. Incubators and VCs served to me as a validation, but I was so wrong. 2. Kill your EGO. It’s not about me, but the user. I must want what the user wants, not what I want. My taste isn't important. The user has expectations, and I must fulfill them. 3. Don’t chaise investors. Chase users, and then investors will be chasing you. I've never had more incoming interest from VC than now when I'm the least interested in them. 4. Never hire managers. Only hire doers until PMF. So many people know how to manage people and so few can actually get sh*t done barehand. 5. Landing page is the least important thing in a startup. Pick a simple template, edit texts with a no-code website builder in less than an hour and that's it! At the early stage, You win traffic outside of your website, people are already interested, so don't make them search for the signup button among the texts! Focus on conversion optimization only when the traffic is consistent. Keep it to one page. Nobody gonna browse this website. 6. Hire only fullstack devs. There is nothing less productive in this world than a team of developers for an early-stage product. One full stack dev building the whole product. That’s it. 7. Chase global market from day 1. If the product and marketing are good, it will work on the global market too, if it’s bad, it won’t work on the local market too. So better go global from day 1, so that if it works, the upside is 100x bigger. I launched all startups for the Norwegian market, hoping we will scale to international at some point. I wish I launched to international from day 1 as I do now. The size of the market is 10000x bigger. I can validate and grow products in days, not in years as it used to be. 8. Do SEO from day 2. As early as you can. I ignored this for 14 years. It’s my biggest regret. It takes just 5 minutes to get it done on your landing page. Go to Google Keyword Planner, enter a few keywords around your product, sort them by traffic, filter out high competition kws, pick the top 10, and place them natively on your home page and meta tags. Add one blog article every week. Either manually or by paying for an AI blogging tool. 9. Sell features, before building them. Ask existing users if they want this feature. I run DMs with 10-20 users every day, where I chat about all my ideas and features I wanna add. I clearly see what resonates with me most and only go build those. If you don't have followers, try HN, Reddit, or just search on X for posts and ask it in the replies. People are helpful, they will reply if the question is easy to understand. 10. Hire only people you would wanna hug. My cofounder, an old Danish man said this to me in 2015. And it was a big shift. I realized that if I don’t wanna hug the person, it means I dislike them on a chemical/animal level. Even if I can’t say why, but that’s the fact. Sooner or later, we would have a conflict and eventually break up. It takes up to 10 years to build a startup, make sure you do it with people you have this connection with. 11. Invest all money into your startups and friends. Not crypt0, not stockmarket, not properties. I did some math, if I kept investing all my money into all my friends’ startups, that would be about 70 investments. 3 of them turned into unicorns eventually. Even 1 would have made the bank. Since 2022, I have invested all my money into my products, friends, and network. If you don't have friends who do startups, invest it in yourself. 12. Post on Twitter daily. I started posting here in March last year. It’s my primary source of new connections and growth. I could have started it earlier, I don't know why I didn't. If you are at the same place, start today. I promise you won't regret it. 13. Don’t work/partner with corporates. Corporations always seem like an amazing opportunity. They’re big and rich, they promise huge stuff, millions of users, etc. But every single time none of this happens. Because you talk to a regular employees there. They waste your time, destroy focus, shift priorities, and eventually bring in no users/money. 14. Don’t get ever distracted by hype, e.g. crypt0. I lost 1.5 years of my life this way. I met the worst people along the way. Fricks, scammers, thieves. Some of my close friends turned into thieves along the way, just because it was so common in that space. I wish this didn’t happen to me. I wish I was stronger and stayed on my mission. 15. Don’t build consumer apps. Only b2b. Consumer apps are so hard, like a lottery. It’s just 0.00001% who make it big. The rest don’t. Even if I got many users, then there is a monetization challenge. I’ve spent 4 years in consumer apps and regret it. 16. Don’t hold on bad project for too long, max 1 year. Some projects just don’t work. In most cases, it’s either the idea that’s so wrong that you can’t even pivot it or it’s a team that is good one by one but can’t make it as a team. Don’t drag this out for years. 17. Tech conferences are a waste of time. They cost money, take energy, and time and you never really meet anyone there. Most people there are the “good” employees of corporations who were sent there as a perk for being loyal to the corporation. Very few fellow makers. 18. Scrum is a Scam. If I had a team that had to be nagged every morning with questions as if they were children in kindergarten, then things would eventually fail. The only good stuff I managed to do happened with people who were grownups and could manage their stuff on their own. We would just do everything over chat as a sync on goals and plans. 19. Outsource nothing at all until PMF. In a startup, almost everything needs to be done in a slightly different way, more creative, and more integrated into the vision. When outsourcing, the external members get no love and no case for the product. It’s just yet another assignment in their boring job. Instead of coming up with great ideas for your project they will be just focusing on ramping up their skills to get a promotion or a better job offer. 20. Bootstrap. I spent way too much time raising money. I raised more than 10 times, preseed, seeded, and series A. But each time it was a 3-9 month project, meetings every week, and lots of destruction. I could afford to bootstrap, but I still went the VC-funded way, I don’t know why. To be honest, I didn’t know bootstrapping was a thing I could do or anyone does. 21. It may take a decade. When I was 20, I was convinced it takes a few years to build and succeed with a startup. So I kept pushing my plans forward, to do it once I exited. Family, kids. I wish I married earlier. I wish I had kids earlier. 22. No Free Tier. I'd launch a tool with a free tier, and it'd get sign-ups, but very few would convert. I'd treat free sign-ups as KPIs and run on it for years. I'd brag about signups and visitors. I'd even raise VC money with these stats. But eventually, I would fail to reach PMF. Because my main feedback would come from free users and the product turned into a perfect free product. Once I switched to "paid only" until I validated the product, things went really well. Free and paid users often need different products. Don't fall into this trap as I did. 23. Being To Cheap. I always started by checking all competitors and setting the lowest price. I thought this would be one of the key advantages of my product. But no, I was wrong. The audience on $5 and $50 are totally different. $5: pain in the *ss, never happy, never recommend you to a friend, leave in 4 months. $50: polite, give genuine feedback, happy, share with friends, become your big fan if you solve their request. 24. I will fail. When I started my first startup. I thought if I did everything right, it would work out. But it turned out that almost every startup fails. I wish I knew that and I tried to fail faster, to get to the second iteration, then to the third, and keep going on, until I either find out nothing works or make it work. 25. Use boilerplates. I wasted years of dev time and millions of VC money to pay for basic things. To build yet another sidebar, yet another dashboard, and payment integration... I had too much pride, I couldn't see myself taking someone else code as a basis for my product. I wanted it to be 100% mine, original, from scratch. Because my product seems special to me. 26. Spend more time with Family & Friends. I missed the weddings of all my best friends and family. I was so busy. I thought if I didn't do it on time, the world would end. Looking back today, it was so wrong. I meet my friends and can't share those memories with them, which makes me very sad. I realized now, that spending 10% of my time with family and friends would practically make no negative impact on my startups. 27. Build Products For Audiences You Love. I never thought of this. I'd often build products either for corporates, consumers, or for developers. It turns out I have no love for all 3. But I deeply love indie founders. Because they are risk-takers and partly kids in their hearts. Once I switched the focus to indie makers on my products, my level of joy increased by 100x for me. 28. Write Every Single Day. When I was a kid, I loved writing stories. In school, they would give an assignment, and I'd often write a long story for it, however, the teacher would put an F on it. The reason was simple, I had an issue with the direction of the letters and the sequence of letters in the words. I still have it, it's just the Grammarly app helping me to correct these issues. So the teacher would fail my stories because almost every sentence had a spelling mistake that I couldn't even see. It made me think I'm made at writing. So I stopped, for 15 years. But I kept telling stories all these years. Recently I realized that in any group, the setup ends up turning into me telling stories to everyone. So I tried it all again, here on X 10 months ago. I love it, the process, the feedback from people. I write every day. I wish I had done it all these years. The End.

@forgebitz Very interesting, can't do design services but if a no code coding consultancy would be fine

You can't run job boards or design services on Lemon Squeezy apparently I had no idea but discovered it thanks to @alexstyl Most of the list makes total sense but really curious why designer services are banned

@NocodeTalks This post and your previous one about private header keys should be a YouTube video. Not many are aware

Your weekend reminder- If you are putting your Google maps key in Bubble, please tie keys with your domain in google cloud console. Your key will be public if you put it here. Anyone can see it.

@Jeff_Prewitt Here - Pick "private key in header" (or other authentication type depending upon the API you are integrating)

@bestbubbledev Subscribed!

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I'll dedicate 2024 to making videos. Goal: 1 000 000 subscribers by the end of the year. I bet on your guys' support 🫶

@sidi_jeddou_dev This looks amazing but if it's free how do you cover the server costs?

Hey friends 🙌 I’m sure excited to introduce you to RapidForms. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘂𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘀. I always wanted to build forms that match my website design in easy way, with less cost. But unfortunately, every time I end up using the API and code the form myself, and that takes time instead of focusing on what matters. And the worst thing is that I have to pay monthly to get the necessary features with so many features that I don’t need. And this is what we try to solve with RapidForms, and more. ➡️ Check it out: rapidforms.co

If only someone told me this before my 1st startup: 1. Validate idea first. I wasted at least 5 years building stuff nobody needed. 2. Kill your EGO. It's not about me, but the user. I must want what the user wants, not what I want. 3. Don't chaise investors, chase users, and then investors will be chasing you. 4. Never hire managers. Only hire doers until PMF. 5. Landing page is the least important thing in a startup. Pick an average template, edit texts and that's it. 90% of the users will end up on your site coming from a blog article, social media post, a recommendation. Which means they have the intent. No need to "convert" them again. 6. Hire only fullstack devs. There is nothing less productive in this world than a team of developers. One full stack dev building the whole product. That's it. 7. Chase global market from day 1. If the product and marketing are good, it will work on the global market too, if it's bad, it won't work on the local market too. So better go global from day 1, so that if it works, the upside is 100x bigger. 8. Do SEO from day 2. As early as you can. I ignored this for 14 years. It's my biggest regret. 9. Sell features, before building them. Ask existing users if they want this feature. I run DMs with 10-20 users every day, where I chat about all my ideas and features I wanna add. I clearly see what resonates with me most and only go build those. 10. Hire only people you would wanna hug. My mentor said this to me in 2015. And it was a big shift. I realized that if I don't wanna hug the person, it means I dislike them. Even if I can't say why, but that's the fact. Sooner or later, we would have a conflict and eventually break up. 11. Invest all money into your startups and friends. Not crypt0, not stockmarket, not properties. I did some math, if I kept investing all my money into all my friends’ startups, that would be about 70 investments. 3 of them turned into unicorns eventually. Even 1 would have made the bank. Since 2022, I have invested all my money into my products, friends, and network. 12. Post on Twitter daily. I started posting here in March this year. It's my primary source of new connections and traffic. 13. Don't work/partner with corporates. Corporations always seem like an amazing opportunity. They're big and rich, they promise huge stuff, millions of users, etc. But every single time none of this happens. Because you talk to a regular employees there. They waste your time, destroy focus, shift priorities, and eventually bring in no users/money. 14. Don't get ever distracted by hype, e.g. crypt0. I lost 1.5 years of my life this way. I met the worst people along the way. Fricks, scammers, thieves. Some of my close friends turned into thieves along the way, just because it was so common in that space. I wish this didn't happen to me. 15. Don't build consumer apps. Only b2b. Consumer apps are so hard, like a lottery. It's just 0.00001% who make it big. The rest don't. Even if I got many users, then there is a monetization challenge. I've spent 4 years in consumer apps and regret it. 16. Don't hold on bad project for too long, max 1 year. Some projects just don't work. In most cases, it's either the idea that's so wrong that you can't even pivot it or it's a team that is good one by one but can't make it as a team. Don't drag this out for years. 17. Tech conferences are a waste of time. They cost money, take energy, and time and you never really meet anyone there. Most people there are the "good" employees of corporations who were sent there as a perk for being loyal to the corporation. Very few fellow makers. 18. Scrum is a Scam. If I had a team that had to be nagged every morning with questions as if they were children in kindergarten, then things would eventually fail. The only good stuff I managed to do happened with people who were grownups and could manage their stuff. We would just do everything over chat as a sync on goals and plans. 19. Outsource nothing at all until PMF. In a startup, almost everything needs to be done in a slightly different way, more creative, and more integrated into the vision. When outsourcing, the external members get no love and no case for the product. It's just yet another assignment in their boring job. 20. Bootstrap. I spent way too much time raising money. I raised more than 10 times, preseed, seed, and series A. But each time it was a 3-9 month project, meetings every week, and lots of destruction. I could afford to bootstrap, but I still went the VC-funded way, I don't know why. To be honest, I didn't know bootstrapping was a thing I could do or anyone does. That's it. All my projects → x.com/johnrushx/bio

@mq_p Here is an example of Bubble app audit pricing momentumgroup.tech/service/bubble…

How much would you charge for an audit of a Bubble app? 😅

@creativ_eny @godocdf @bubble Agreed with the delete interaction with the yes and no is fine. English has many words that could be used. Sometimes it could lead to a more specific action. This kind of guidance on the label comes from my bias with Material design #alert-dialog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">material.io/components/dia…

@MotionInProduct @godocdf @bubble I see... Thanks. A school of thought thought... Yes/No is very much valid too.

I made a cute delete pop-up alternative on @bubble . . #nocode

@creativ_eny @godocdf @bubble "Yes" is relatively ambiguous compared to "Delete" as a verb to use on the button.

@godocdf @bubble How does it affect Yes/No affect UX.. ready to learn.

@JustinQuda Directionally right. Wrong company because Facebook hasn't lead in early experiences. Most of product is copying/refining existing established experiences. But they have a lot of money so they could brute force this and still make it happen.

Is Zuck right directionally on the metaverse but wrong on timing? feels like the digital universe he's imagining is at least 10-15 years away What's your take?

@jasonmasina Love the quality and delivery style

Here it is folks! 👍🏻 youtu.be/znxSQ5MtcSw

Ramping up for higher quality content! 📈 New @bubble video tomorrow. 🔥 #nocode

@shauryanagpal7 @twesolowski @bubble Why does every user need to make their own separate API call to get latest price? You could have a backend workflow that gets prices every 10-15mins from your price provider. Then have user read those values from your database.

@twesolowski @bubble I am making an API call per user so if 100 users logged in at the same time I will spend my month's hard limit of data calls in 10 mins!

Is it possible to create a data type in bubble independent of user pre built field in it? #NoCode @bubble #buildinpublic

@LennonGinibun Yes to specifying that you would be using a nocode platform. This way in your contract, you are outlining deliverables there is no source code to deliver but rather login details. Also they would need to pay for the platform subscriptions so it would need explanations.

Reaching out to all bubble/nocode developers out there. When building with nocode for your clients/customer. Do you specify that you are going to build their wesbite/webapp using the Nocode way, if yes, will you be giving them the application if they are asking the source code?

@mq_p Good for a generic set untitledui.com/icons

Hey twitter fam, where can I find / buy a beautiful pack of icons? #buildinpublic

@mq_p How do you change the label or get the validation state of the input element when it is a reusable element? I have been stuck there in the past.

@MotionInProduct Maybe you can create a reusable element for that?

Bubble plugin developers selling toggle elements 🤡

@Sebasti67453318 @bubble @heepHQ @joshsnow @ThomasCulia What is satellite?

Made in @bubble for a client who found me on @heepHQ 👀 - Filtering RGs using pretty URLs 🔎, thanks @joshsnow for the guidance - Reusable components using satellite 📡 - Dynamic SEO🔥 - Full Responsive UI made by @ThomasCulia✨ heroshot.io #NoCode