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Tom louwagie
@tomlouwagie.bsky.social
Hi, I'm Tom, the founder of minimum-code.com! 👋

I help non-technical founders launch their startups ideas 🚀

Building MVPs and apps with

Bubble.io and Xano.com 🛠️
Done!
January 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
cold email :-)
January 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
PS: Do you have a startup idea? Share it with me and I'll give you a step by step plan on how you can validate your idea
January 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Why this process?

- Easy to start, remember action creates motivation
- You quickly get user feedback to learn from

Your startup is closer than you think. You don’t need to code to start. Start this weekend, no excuses.
January 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
3️⃣ Talk to potential users

- Share your landing page and screen mockup
- Ask simple questions:
“Would this solve your problem?”
“Do you want to try it out?”

Focus on learning, not selling. Offer to solve their problem manually if needed. The feedback will guide your next step.
January 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
2️⃣ Design your product’s main screen

- Use Figma / Visily (both are beginner friendly)
- Design the key feature of your solution, don’t worry about perfection
- Make a screenshot / video and put it on landing page
- This gives users something concrete to imagine and respond to
January 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
1️⃣ Create a landing page

- Go to webflow.com
- Pick a simple template
- Replace the text to explain problem + your solution
- Keep changes to visuals and colors minimal - don’t overthink it
- Your landing page is step 1 to show potential users what your idea is about
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Webflow.com
January 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
You can do API calls (just import the cURL so API call will be created automatically) from Bubble.

Is that what you mean?

Also this is a great video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuVx...
December 22, 2024 at 1:05 PM
What features do you think will be hard with no code? :-)
December 21, 2024 at 6:25 PM
@strasek.follows.tech have you considered building with Bubble.io or similar No Code tools? You can also connect your Bubble front end with Supabase
Bubble: The full-stack no-code app builder. Start for free!
A platform for beginners and experts alike. See why more than 4.69 million apps have been built and launched on Bubble.
Bubble.io
December 21, 2024 at 4:40 PM
With Xano you can choose server location, e.g. Frankfurt
December 17, 2024 at 9:20 PM
I meant reverse: goal is to keep the data inside EU :-)

Some clients want to be sure data will be kept inside EU due to GDPR concerns (although it's strictly speaking not required)

Bubble Enterprise plan is very expensive, using Xano is much cheaper plus you get the benefit of scalability...
December 17, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Strictly speaking it’s not required, you could still keep data outside of EU, but for client with sensitive financial, healthcare or personal data they highly prefer to keep in EU. On Bubble you can choose hosting location only on Enterprise plan which is very expensive…
December 14, 2024 at 5:34 PM
@brentonstrine.bsky.social as you can see Xano + Bubble are our top tools. We do it often Bubble frontend + Xano backend for scalability or GDPR reasons (I'm based in Germany and so are many of our clients)
December 13, 2024 at 1:42 PM
@brentonstrine.bsky.social I used to work as PM at traditional software dev agency, then discovered Bubble and realised we could have saved a lot of time & money :-) now running my own Bubble agency
December 8, 2024 at 12:31 AM
👋
December 1, 2024 at 4:55 PM