How to create a digital platform or app without developers

The CollabMaker podcast

To create a sustainable and better world, new digital tools, platforms and technologies need to be created, from a wider group of people. As surprising as it may sound, you don’t have to be a digital expert or have good digital knowledge to start developing your idea for a positive digital tool or platform into a reality. Today, there are so many tools that are made for digital novices that mean there has never been a better time to turn your digital idea for a better world into a reality. So where do you start when building such a platform or digital purpose-driven business and how have others approached this?
In today’s episode, Mark Hooley meets Barry O’Kane, the founder of Happyporch, a software development company for purpose-driven businesses, Nohelia Rambal, the founder of GOODF!ND, a digital platform connecting shoppers with good brands doing good things and Elena Escriva de Romani Perez, who is one of the co-founders of Fuelvision, an app helping airlines reduce their fuel consumption.

We discuss the best approach to creating digital tools, platforms, or purpose-driven business, how Nohelia and Elena built Minimal Viable Product’s (MVPs) – the first very simple iteration of their platform without using developers, the major benefits you will see through developing your product or service like this, when people should use developers, what they have learnt in their journey and much more.
Show links

Happy porch helps with ideas, strategy and software development to power purpose-driven businesses. They work with organisations that are making the world a better place and are particularly passionate about the circular economy.
https://www.happyporch.com/
GOODF!ND connect shoppers with good brands doing good things. The directory of brands with a purpose, making it easy to find sustainable and ethical alternatives. It doesn’t matter if it is ethical clothing, food, drink and dining, beauty and make up or more, GOODF!ND will help you find purpose-driven brands.
https://www.goodfind.io/

FuelVision assists airlines to decrease their aggregate carbon footprint, by shaping future pilot behaviour. With their soon to be launched app pilots can make data-driven decisions before their flight and after landing assess their performance, track their progression and understand the climate impact of their actions.
www.fuelvision.io
Useful links for no code tools and other useful resources

Resources:
No-code tools:
https://www.glideapps.com/
https://webflow.com/
https://bubble.io/
https://webflow.com/
https://wordpress.com/
https://wordpress.org
https://elementor.com/
https://www.browse.ai/ (scraping tool)
https://www.zoho.com/creator/ - Low code creator

Zapier: https://zapier.com – Connect different apps together and automate workflows

Airtable: https://www.airtable.com/Connect data, workflows and teams
Design: https://www.figma.com/ (Figma Community for UI components & mockups - building prototypes)

Other tools: https://krisp.ai/(plug in to reduce your and others background noise)
https://coda.io/