Glitch is especially great for our purposes because they’ve partnered with Slack’s developer relations team to create app “blueprints,” which can be copied and used as starting points for your app. With Glitch, you can literally have a full-stack web app live in minutes. If that last sentence was a bit scary, don’t worry, all it means is that Glitch enables you to write code in your browser, and it handles the rest. Glitch is an online code editor that acts as a Node.js Proxy/Auth Backend and lets you deploy code immediately. Regardless of the idea, Glitch is a great place to start. Maybe a bot that lets employees submit help requests. Let’s assume you have an idea already for a Slack app you want to build. If you’re thinking about building something but don’t know where to start, I hope this will illuminate just how achievable it is with low-code. Below is a step-by-step guide to create a Slack app using only no-code / low-code tools. Rather than opine about the merits of building side projects, I thought a more helpful way to share would be a tactical guide on how I actually built the app. It also inspired me to look for other problems no-code tools could solve and ultimately found Whalesync. With barely any programming experience, I built a real product that attracted venture capital investment from a top VC. But more importantly, it opened my eyes to the power of no-code / low-code tools. I competed in Pioneer for three months, improved the app, and eventually won! Winning Pioneer meant access to Pioneer’s accelerator program, a $20K investment, and a round-trip ticket to SF. In early 2019, I submitted Referralboard to Daniel Gross’ Pioneer competition. The most prolific referrers win a prize at the end of the month. The app is pretty simple - employees move up a leaderboard by submitting referrals thru Slack. Referralboard is a Slack app that incentivizes employee referrals. Before Whalesync, I started a company called Referralboard. I’m the co-founder of Whalesync - a no-code data syncing tool.
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