Hi,

Ultimately, I'd like to generate custom code to embed RSS feeds on my site from a list of URLs. How can this be done?

I've been working on a new no-code tool to make Google Sheets more powerful & intelligent: getpickaxe.com

Initially focused on people who spend lots of time building manual lists in Sheets (sales/Bd/recruiters). My most popular use case is finding sales prospects.

It's just launched in beta and would love to offer 50 free credits to all Makerpad members. It's free to install. To get the free credits follow this link to add to your Google Sheets.

Hey Everybody!

My app Docamatic generates PDF documents from HTML or templates. Today a customer had an interesting use case that I had never thought of before.

They were receiving many invoices via email (without PDF attachments) that needed to be archived to Google Drive as PDF documents (for accounting purposes).

They were able to setup a zap to automatically convert the HTML email body to a PDF and then upload it to drive.

I have a guide for HTML to PDF with Zapier here, currently working on putting together a full guide for "Convert email to PDF and upload to Drive".

If you have any interesting use cases or ideas would love to know!

Cheers,
Daryl

Hi Everyone,

I recently shared here our introductory guide to Airtable that opened our Learn Airtable series. Here's the second article that discusses the pros and cons (what we wish it had) of the Airtable API from our perspective. Would love to hear your feedback.

Cheers,
Narek

Hey Makers, what are you using for automating your social media posting across Twitter and LinkedIn? Happy to pay something but this is for me versus my company.

For all you podcasters out there. See it as the Rodecaster Pro as software.




Hi all. My name is Simon and I work with a university in London. We're on the lookout for an engaging presenter to deliver an online 60-minute "Intro to No-Code" workshop for a group of students next week (22 April).

Other things to note:

Anyone you'd recommend to deliver this?

Many thanks.

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Okay, so it was easier than I expected it to be to set up a simple upvoting/poll app. I spent three long evenings and a full Saturday making an app to help me pick names for some new startup-themed coffee products I'm going to be selling later this month.

The naming/upvoting app uses these four tools:

I started with Softr's generic upvoting app template. The app has user signup, login, forgot pwd, voting, item lists, and item details — all using basic Softr components. All the membership components I needed without looping in anything else. Excellent.

Next step: I wanted to create a custom product mockup every time a new product idea is added.

I used Bannerbear for this, so each item submitted can have its own set of images customized to that item. Bannerbear creates a social share image, and two different product images (one with white bg, the other transparent bg).

Here's what those look like:



Bannerbear makes these as a result of a Zapier zap that fires when a new Airtable entry is added. I save the urls to these images in Airtable.

Softr allows me to have columns in my Airtable telling it what social share image it should use for every item in the database table (as well as all of the other relevant SEO and social/open graph data fields).

Lastly, after some Airtable formula gymnastics I added a sharable Twitter link in each product description:







After spending maybe too much time tinkering with colors and stock photos, it was ready to go!

Here’s a link to my finished app:



Help Us Name Our Coffee! • STARTUP COFFEE CO

We're launching new coffee for startup founders, and we need your help choosing the best names. Vote now!

https://names.startupcoffee.co



PS: I should also mention how/where I got the art for the product mockup images...

The bag image is this (commercial license, of course):
Kraft Coffee Bag PSD Mockup on Creative Market

I edited the bag mockup with Pixelmator to hide the circular bag valve and add a white label.  Aside: I prefer to use Pixelmator over Adobe Photoshop because Photoshop makes my laptop wheeze and get unusably slow.