**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**
Have you ever dreamed of developing the next big app like Airbnb or TikTok, but you don’t know your webhooks from your APIs?
Do you have a software idea that could solve the world’s biggest problems but coding seems like a dark art? What was once a heavy barrier to most founders - creating a technical product - has now become simple and accessible thanks to the world of No-Code.
The No-Code Startup is a play-by-play guide to launching your business by building just about any kind of app with No-Code tools. You’ll learn the basics of storing data, building automations and even implementing AI tools like GPT. By the end you will be able to test your product with real customers before continuing your journey as a true tech startup founder.
- Price: $24.99
- Pages: 224
- Carton Quantity: 20
- Publisher: Practical Inspiration Publishing
- Imprint: Practical Inspiration Publishing
- Publication Date: 27th February 2024
- Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
- Illustration Note: B/w diagrams, flow-charts and line drawings
- ISBN: 9781788605069
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
COMPUTERS / Electronic Commerce (see also headings under BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / E-Commerce)
DESIGN / Product
COMPUTERS / Digital Media / General
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / E-Commerce / General (see also COMPUTERS / Electronic Commerce)
I’ve had an idea for a business for a long time but never had a clue where to start (I’m not exactly technically minded). I’d heard of no code but even found that overwhelming. After seeing this on Amazon, I thought I’d take a chance. What I really like about it is that it’s really aimed at people like me; someone with an idea but absolutely no clue on what goes into making an app. The author takes each stage step-by-step and covers all of the things that an amateur needs to know. I also really like the fact that the author shares her own experiences. - Amazon 5*
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter one: Introduction
- The old days of tech startups
- The new world of no-code
- What is no-code/low-code?
- What no-code means for today’s entrepreneurs
- The limitations of no-code
- Avoid the mistakes of my own failed startup
- How to use this book
- Chapter two: Discovery and ideation
- Finding a problem to solve
- Creating your solution: Crazy 8 framework
- Researching your potential market
- How to conduct user research
- How to find and interview potential customers
- Crafting the perfect interview request email
- Build an automated email capture
- Chapter three: Planning your MVP
- What is an MVP?
- Testing our business assumptions
- Examples of MVPs
- Using the MoSCoW framework to revise your MVP
- From MoSCoW to flowchart
- Activity: Create your first flowchart
- Chapter four: Creating and testing visual prototypes
- What are low-fidelity prototypes?
- What are high-fidelity prototypes?
- Types of low-fidelity tools
- Activity: Creating your first low-fidelity prototype
- Gathering feedback: The crucial step in refining your prototype
- When to pivot: Making sense of mixed feedback
- Chapter five: Building the back-end
- What is the back-end of software development?
- Back-end in no-code development
- Choosing the right back-end tool
- What is a relational database?
- The world of databases explained
- The ascendancy of relational databases
- Choosing the right database for your needs
- Popular no-code databases on the market
- Activity: Map out your data
- Chapter six: Building the front-end
- What is the front-end?
- Choosing the right approach
- Types of no-code front-end tools and what they do
- Connecting the front-end to the back-end
- Digging deeper into workflows
- Activity: Build a user form with a photo upload field
- Chapter seven: Automations
- What are automations?
- A deep dive into API’s
- Retrieving data with a webhook
- Choosing between an API and a webhook
- Connecting your app to external data the no-code way
- Activity: Create your first automation
- Chapter eight: Let’s build
- Chapter nine: Launch day
- Extra tech you may need
- Chapter ten: Getting the basics of your startup right
- Managing the money
- Chapter eleven: Grow or pivot
- Collecting data to inform your decisions
- Making sense of data you’ve collected
- Choosing to pivot
- Choosing to grow
- Building a product roadmap
- The art of prioritization
- A guide to metrics: Measuring the right data
- Chapter twelve: The tech echo system
- Tools to help build your product
- Tools for raising money
- Tools for managing your business with no-code
- Accelerators
- Chapter thirteen: Conversations with founders
- Jof Walters: Million Labs and Seesy
- Stephen Mitchell: SQCDP
- Michael John Magdongon: Strabo
- Resources
- Index
**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**
Have you ever dreamed of developing the next big app like Airbnb or TikTok, but you don’t know your webhooks from your APIs?
Do you have a software idea that could solve the world’s biggest problems but coding seems like a dark art? What was once a heavy barrier to most founders - creating a technical product - has now become simple and accessible thanks to the world of No-Code.
The No-Code Startup is a play-by-play guide to launching your business by building just about any kind of app with No-Code tools. You’ll learn the basics of storing data, building automations and even implementing AI tools like GPT. By the end you will be able to test your product with real customers before continuing your journey as a true tech startup founder.
- Price: $24.99
- Pages: 224
- Carton Quantity: 20
- Publisher: Practical Inspiration Publishing
- Imprint: Practical Inspiration Publishing
- Publication Date: 27th February 2024
- Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
- Illustrations Note: B/w diagrams, flow-charts and line drawings
- ISBN: 9781788605069
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
COMPUTERS / Electronic Commerce (see also headings under BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / E-Commerce)
DESIGN / Product
COMPUTERS / Digital Media / General
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / E-Commerce / General (see also COMPUTERS / Electronic Commerce)
I’ve had an idea for a business for a long time but never had a clue where to start (I’m not exactly technically minded). I’d heard of no code but even found that overwhelming. After seeing this on Amazon, I thought I’d take a chance. What I really like about it is that it’s really aimed at people like me; someone with an idea but absolutely no clue on what goes into making an app. The author takes each stage step-by-step and covers all of the things that an amateur needs to know. I also really like the fact that the author shares her own experiences. - Amazon 5*
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter one: Introduction
- The old days of tech startups
- The new world of no-code
- What is no-code/low-code?
- What no-code means for today’s entrepreneurs
- The limitations of no-code
- Avoid the mistakes of my own failed startup
- How to use this book
- Chapter two: Discovery and ideation
- Finding a problem to solve
- Creating your solution: Crazy 8 framework
- Researching your potential market
- How to conduct user research
- How to find and interview potential customers
- Crafting the perfect interview request email
- Build an automated email capture
- Chapter three: Planning your MVP
- What is an MVP?
- Testing our business assumptions
- Examples of MVPs
- Using the MoSCoW framework to revise your MVP
- From MoSCoW to flowchart
- Activity: Create your first flowchart
- Chapter four: Creating and testing visual prototypes
- What are low-fidelity prototypes?
- What are high-fidelity prototypes?
- Types of low-fidelity tools
- Activity: Creating your first low-fidelity prototype
- Gathering feedback: The crucial step in refining your prototype
- When to pivot: Making sense of mixed feedback
- Chapter five: Building the back-end
- What is the back-end of software development?
- Back-end in no-code development
- Choosing the right back-end tool
- What is a relational database?
- The world of databases explained
- The ascendancy of relational databases
- Choosing the right database for your needs
- Popular no-code databases on the market
- Activity: Map out your data
- Chapter six: Building the front-end
- What is the front-end?
- Choosing the right approach
- Types of no-code front-end tools and what they do
- Connecting the front-end to the back-end
- Digging deeper into workflows
- Activity: Build a user form with a photo upload field
- Chapter seven: Automations
- What are automations?
- A deep dive into API’s
- Retrieving data with a webhook
- Choosing between an API and a webhook
- Connecting your app to external data the no-code way
- Activity: Create your first automation
- Chapter eight: Let’s build
- Chapter nine: Launch day
- Extra tech you may need
- Chapter ten: Getting the basics of your startup right
- Managing the money
- Chapter eleven: Grow or pivot
- Collecting data to inform your decisions
- Making sense of data you’ve collected
- Choosing to pivot
- Choosing to grow
- Building a product roadmap
- The art of prioritization
- A guide to metrics: Measuring the right data
- Chapter twelve: The tech echo system
- Tools to help build your product
- Tools for raising money
- Tools for managing your business with no-code
- Accelerators
- Chapter thirteen: Conversations with founders
- Jof Walters: Million Labs and Seesy
- Stephen Mitchell: SQCDP
- Michael John Magdongon: Strabo
- Resources
- Index