🚪 How a Notion Widget Tool was built and acquired
The No-Code Exit Story of Nandha and Actions.so
Hello,
Welcome 140 new subscribers. Cool milestone today, we are at issue number 10 and we crossed 1.500 subscribers this weekend 👯♀️🙏.
How is your week going? Some updates from my week.
👀 Katt's Week
We finalized the first draft of our presale page of Indie Kids (the No-Code Family Game) and shared it with some people who were interested. Exciting! If you have kids of 8+ and want to be part of this, let me know.
This weekend Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of MicroAcquire) tweeted this. I think it's kind of big 🤯.
It's your last chance to apply for the No-Code Bootcamp, starting in November. I'm now part of their team, but I was a participant myself in February. It's what got me started on this No-Code journey and taught me the lean mindset.
That tweet from Andrew also awakened the Shiny Object Beast (again). I'm first figuring out if it's feasible before I share more. 👀
I have been struggling with deciding what's my next project to focus on. I got some great advice from my Twitter friends here. Curious to hear, what is your biggest struggle at the moment? Let me know by replying to this email.
The interview this week blew my mind again. Nandha is a student from India and learned No-Code (Bubble) + built his project in 30 days 🤯.
Enjoy the interview👇
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💡 Acquisition Example
Get inspired by No-Code projects for sale on Microns 🚀.
What A Funding Resource Database
No-Code Tools Airtable and Paytable
Customers 90
ARR $5,376
Price $20,000
🐹 Tool Experiment
Every week I try out a No-Code tool and summarize my findings.
What Softr turns your Airtable data into a beautiful and powerful web app, client portal or internal tool.
Best for web apps, client portals and internal tools
I built A job board with filters, search function, possibility to add job posts for a cost (Stripe integration), custom form to add a job post and price option page.
I liked Easy to use yet so powerful, building blocks so you don’t need to start from scratch, easy to set up user accounts and powerful integrations (like Stripe), amazing customer support, great free plan.
🔥 Maker Interview
Hello Nandha, tell us a little bit about yourself.
I’m a Post Graduate student and Bubble Developer from India. I stumbled upon Bubble during the end of 2021 and got to know about this awesome challenge called #BuildSell30 where you’ve to build and sell your startup in 30 days.
I didn’t know about Bubble before, but was excited to join #BuildSell30. So I took it as a challenge to learn and build a product completely using Bubble in 30 days.
Finally, I built & launched the first version of my product within 25 days.
Which product did you build?
I built and sold a Notion widget builder tool called Actions. As a student I’ve been using Notion since 2019, when I shared my Notion templates with others I felt it lacked some Call-to-Action features like Buttons, Cards.
So I built Actions.so which allows users to create personalized Call-to-Action widgets.
Which No-Code tools did you use?
Webflow for Landing Page
Bubble for Web App
How did you launch and grow your product?
I launched Actions on Twitter in February, 2022. I released some Notion templates built with our widgets in it. It served as a source to bring some early users.
In the next four months I didn’t do any marketing as I was busy with my studies, but Actions managed to grow to 1000+ registered users.
Can you share some stats from the time you listed it for sale?
Users: 1000+
Notion Widgets created: 2300+
Traffic: Around 1000 visitors per month from various sources Google, Blog posts & Newsletters.
Why and how did you sell it?
I listed Actions on MicroAcquire and within 24 hrs I received so many request and signed my LOI on Day 1. After that, the entire acquisition process was completed within 2 weeks. It was sold for mid 4 figures.
I built Actions as a part of #BuildSell30 challenge & also I didn’t have time to market the product as my offline classes had started after covid.
Why did the buyer want to acquire your project?
The buyer wanted to expand Actions by introducing more widgets & paid plans.
What kind of advice would you like to share with someone who wants to get started with No-Code?
Start as soon as you have a valid idea, if you don’t know to use the tool, no problem. Just learn the basics and start building, Don’t get stuck in tutorial hell, you’ll eventually find the solution once you start building.
What kind of advice would you like to share with someone who wants to sell their No-Code project?
Choose the right No-Code tool to build your product and try to monetise your product as soon as possible.
Where can we go to learn more about you and your projects?
You can follow me on Twitter
Thank you so much Nandha 🙏 Anyone interested in doing a build to sell challenge? I'm intrigued 👀
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🚪 How a Notion Widget Tool was built and acquired
Great content, thank you for sharing. Nandha is an awesome person.