Notion — The gift that keeps on giving! 🎁🎈No-Code Shots #15
Most awaited Notion update, Save URLs to Google sheets, Inspirational fundraise in winter, Journey of a former salesman to successful No-coder, AI generation of images using No-code and a chaser.
Hello hello, 👋
This is No-code Shots, the No-code newsletter that has the perfect balance of everything you need — news, updates, tutorials, and fun.
If we had to describe it in one pic — here it is.
Here's what we got for ya today:
⚡Save URLs with a click 🖰⚡
Saving interesting links for later can be a hassle. Do you bookmark them? —Copy them to your to‑do list/reading list/spreadsheet? 📑
We've got a better idea 💡: Send them to a Google Sheet with a Zap — without leaving your browser.
With the Zapier Chrome extension, you can add new rows to your Google Sheet with the click of a button while you're browsing the web. You don't even need to open the sheet itself. 🧷
Set up your spreadsheet 📋
Install the Chrome extension 📥
Log in to your Zapier account 📇
Create and test your Zap ⚡
Bonus: Return a response in Chrome 📤
🔗 Easily save URLs to Google Sheets
⚡ Notion — The gift that keeps on giving! 🎁⚡
If you know anything about Notion, you will know that the recurring task feature has been BEGGED for & is now live. 🔂
You can now:
Set up recurring tasks 🖍️
Generate regular project updates ✏️
Automatically create meeting agendas 🖌️
This is a big automation unlock from Notion, which can be enabled in just 7 clicks. Yep, it took some time, but the amount of Zaps users will be able to save is mindblowing. 🤯
The finest of Notion power users Red Gregory and Thomas Frank jumped to create a tutorial on how to make the most of this update and we as Notion fans cannot be glad enough!
Happy creating & integrating it into your workflows!
🔗 First Look at Recurring Tasks (calendar view tutorial)- Red Gregory
🔗 Notion’s New Recurring Templates- Thomas Frank
⚡ Think No-Code can't scale? — Think again 📈 ⚡
Xano is the fastest way to build and deploy a comprehensive backend for your product. It is built for people with little to no coding knowledge. ⚙️
They provides users the power to build anything and the education to teach them how to turn complex ideas into reality.
Xano announced that they have raised a $5M round led by MHS Capital, joined by Engineering capital and a handful of amazing angel investors. 💸
Why use Xano?
Store data 💽
Easily Create APIs 🌐
Integrate and connect 🔌
Scale 🖇️
Launch 🚀
🔗Xano raises $5M to prove that No-Code can scale
⚡ How a former salesman built a 7-figure business on No-Code 💰 ⚡
This is the story of Jordan Richardson, a former solar panel salesman, and how he went on to build a successful No-code enabled business that has scaled to seven figures! 🚀
He is the founder of No-code Advantage, where he shares everything that he has learned since co-founding Revetize, a software company that was accepted into AngelPad.
Revetize is a SaaS platform, which allows users to quickly gather customer reviews, referrals, new leads, and feedback through its seamless invite generator. The main No-code component of Revitiz was Bubble and Zapier. 🐱💻
Watch his story of the No-code journey in his own words.
🔗 Jordan Richardson’s No-code journey
⚡ Want to generate images at scale the No-code way? 🤖⚡
Image generation from text input has been a significantly evolving use of AI and there are myriad public models on the market today. 📸
These tools can do some incredible things, primarily, generating brand-new imagery at scale for a variety of applications. 🧰
Anthony Lavall, an SEO consultant from the UK and the VP of SEO at Croud has made the job easy for us. He has written a blog detailing how to create images at scale using OpenAI's DALL-E via a Data fetcher in Airtable.
Using Airtable and DALL-E image generation model you will be able to generate images like those above based on your own inputs at a rate of 10 images per minute or 25 every 5 minutes and can be generated by anyone with a few basic, not-especially-technical skills. 🏭
🔗 Generate images with DALL-E and No-code
⚡ Chaser — No-Code Weekend #4 ⚡
If you’re just starting with No-code, challenging yourself to build an MVP within a tight timeline is the best way to develop muscle-building and problem-solving that will propel builders to bring solutions to more complex problems. 🦾
Whether you're new to No-code or are a seasoned expert, you can join the No-code Weekend on 18th November in an online setup to launch a project in 48 hours. 📅
Happy building!
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Notion's recurring task feature will be super useful for doing weekly/monthly/quarterly reviews.
Will try it out for my weekly review template. Just comment here, if you want me to share it.