Manan Mehta

@eltintero Doing good. Let's catch up sometime!

@MananNMehta Thanks my friend! Hope you're doing well

I would never expect this to be the title of my bio... I was interviewed recently by an amazing writer, and this... Well, apparently, this is my story. 👇 A cult, a kidnapping, and a crisis (or two) This founder's story is f*cking insane

@dvdsgl I wouldn't be surprised if @glideapps can do all of this sooner or later!

Fine tune a model on my emails so it can write like me. Prepare multiple draft replies for each email I receive. Help me formulate ad hoc rules from simple explanations. Let me dictate multi-message instructions while looking at inbox. I’d pay much more than ChatGPT sub for this.

All this AI hype and zero efficiency gains for getting through my email inbox. Does not make sense.

@dvdsgl @glideapps Was always confident this would happen

Watching @glideapps experts, who do not have software development backgrounds, land 5 and 6-figure contracts building internal apps for enterprises is the clearest example of the untapped value of software, and the greatest feat of any no-code tool, that I know of.

@aakrit We are building custom software for internal business processes using AI and NoCode at @ModernProcesses Would love to catch up sometime and showcase what we are upto!

The most here and now AI opportunity in India is Infosys 2.0. - More & more enterprises want custom tailor made solutions, not a one size fits all SaaS tool. - CIOs have many business problems, but with AI they don't know where to start. - The business model for this is not man hours driven, but outcome based where economics are closer to a software company. Unlimited TAM. Requires product DNA with IT services like GTM. Ping me if you are doing something here :)

@eltintero @LowCodeAgency It's so weird, but my story is very similar to yours. Started at a family owned business with old school software that was heavily dependent on coders; learnt relational databases using Google Sheets; found @glideapps in the process and @ModernProcesses was born!

I'm going to tell you a story today, the story of a dream, the story of how @LowCodeAgency came to be. Many years ago, in another life, I was working at a manufacturing company.

@eltintero How did you tackle it? It's catch 22 situation!

As a small business though, this is tricky. How do you handle this? Do you hire sales reps? Do you hire ops ppl so the founder can do sales full time? I'm super intrigued about this challenge for growing businesses.

I heard something yesterday, and damn... Shifted my mind. For businesses doing high 6 figures or low 7 figures a year, what is the most important role of the business? Yes, you're right. SALES. Who does sales at this businesses? Yes, the OWNER. The most important question is

@eltintero I hope you got paid well for this hassle

We have an enterprise client. A fortune 500 company. It took them a year to go from proposal to client. We built their app in 2 weeks. It's been a year of internal approvals to get the app live for their end users. Their security team doing pen tests, their design team complaining about the layout, their product team doing x, y and z. Their goal is to launch in a few months. 30 months in total! That's why incumbents win many times. Large enterprises are soooooo fricking slow.

@heyakshay_ Check out Audiopen.ai from @louispereira

you know what we need an ai powered audio-notes tool why is no one building this yet?

Founders, what are some other hacks that you have used to maintain discipline in the office culture? P.S.: I too had to pay ₹1200 in the first month because of this hack, as I was caught breaking discipline occasionally by other team members. 😂😂

Thus, this hack allowed me to keep my santiy while making punishments cool. It also brought in some wonderful innovations in terms of foul language. E.g. A term called Ben Stokes came into the picture, & it started being used a lot more in office. I hope you know what it is. 😉

Why? The next fun session was getting better as the team members were paying for it. It made the company culture way more friendlier. It also broadened the discipline required without me having to take a lot of stress as a boss & becoming a difficult boss to deal with.

So if anybody in the team is breaking the discipline and paying fine money, others get benefited from it in the form of fun sessions. Just by making this small switch, the vigilance passed on from me to all other team team members, and they were happy doing it.

Every time you're using foul language or something which is not supposed to be spoken inside an office environment, ₹100 flat fine would be charged to that team member. But these charges collected from the team members will be directly used for fun sessions for the same team.

Every minute a person is late to a meeting, .1% of their salary will be fined. So basically, if you're earning ₹10,000 a month, you'll be charged ₹10 per minute that you are late.

The intuitive way by which I could have solved this problem was by becoming a harsh boss and becoming a vigilant manager. (Both of which I hate.) But I wanted to find an innovative way out. So, here is what I did to tackle these 2 discipline problems:

1. Team members were coming late to the office meetings by two to ten minutes and were wasting each other's time. 2. Team culture became so friendly and open that people started casually using foul language inside the office. This definitely couldn't be tolerated.

I was facing the problem of maintaining discipline in the office as a growing entrepreneur. (Mainly because the team has now become close friends with each other). There were 2 main discipline issues:

This one hack helped me build a disciplined office culture without being perceived as a strict boss: The Hack: Giving a party to my team members for keeping each other accountable. Let me explain the hack and the problem in depth now.

Once you're done with these six steps, you can take it to any development environment, be it NoCode or Code, and start building the app from there. Did I miss something in this checklist? Let me know in the comments.

Start with building the database for storing all the data. Then create the logic, for the data to flow from point A to point B. And finally build the frontend, the looks and UI of the app. (This is the way I prefer to do it.)

A simple 6-step checklist I would follow if I had to start as a beginner NoCode app developer again. I created it after doing more than 1000+ hours of NoCode consultation and tutoring. 👇🏻