Hi guys, my cofounder and I are nontechnical and are trying to build our website. Any no-code solution recommendations? We want to build out a marketplace similar to Airbnb

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Microsoft power platform is a good option. Once you grow you can use it as a base to run your whole business on Microsoft's business apps like dynamics 365, power automate etc.

Hope this helps.

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Shopify, Wix, and Squarespace could be the easiest with their pre-designed templates and “drag-and-drop” interface.

There are also Sharetribe, Arcadier... - a bit more specialized for a marketplace but require some tech expertise to set up and use.



With these you can prove the use-case and show some good traction to help you raise capital. However in my experience, as you scale you will want to switch to a real web-development technology that makes your solution more versatile, customizable, and agile for further developments.

Good luck!

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As a former PM and now full-time engineer, I wholeheartedly disagree with the notion that all these engineers and technical cofounders are needed.

What's needed is a market that actually wants this service and a fast, lean way to validate the idea. Anything else is considered waste.

I mean the leanest thing you could possibly do is design an interactive prototype and share it with a handful of people to see if they respond to the concept.

Do NOT waste money on engineering before you validate the product 💁🏽‍♂️

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Yeah I agree, I’d rec making an interactive prototype in figma etc.

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Hoping you prove me wrong but I really doubt you’ll be able to do this on a no-code platform. Maybe some kind of prototype for fundraising, but you’ll have to tear the whole thing down ASAP

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I believe the issue will be scaling up. A simple view and book website might fly.

Bubble probably has a template

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me too haha
airbnb has really “forgotten” the hosts and have left an opening
there are many no code solutions
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nocodelist.co

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I heard Memberstack is pretty dope ...
Haha (shameless plug 🤷🏽‍♂️)

Admittedly, I deal with managing all of our developer libraries and APIs, so I don't spend a lot of time on the no code side of things anymore.... but our no code community is wild too.

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I don’t know much about this. But make sure you can take code out of the software. My concern would be that you can’t take code out of a website and they start charging you a lot of money. What does everyone else think about this?

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DS1 of course it’s easier to hire someone to do the work. That is a non-argument. Hiring a free lancer to build a product with 0 users is a huge risk.

Quite frankly, a waste of money.

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Too many flavors of airbnb is coming out. It is time to sell shovels than do the prospecting. Time to roll out shopify for airbnb, imho.

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Thank you everyone!!

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Easily done with WordPress. There are themes and plugins to make a version of Airbnb, last I recall (years ago)

As a startup, it's a mistake to try and build all that you have in mind, as you want it. Build a light, minimally viable, version and with that prove you can develop a competitive marketshare - before you invest in anything else.

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Webflow for the front end and then Wized for functionality

WordPress with elementor?

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Not having a technical cofounder is a much bigger problem than not having a website. You should prioritize getting someone with the skills you need

Lmao. Sure, you can build a static site with a no-code platform. But if want a full OTA experience, yeah that’s not gonna happen. If Airbnb could do it with some WYSIWYG child’s toy, they wouldn’t have 1K+ engineers

An idea isn’t worth anything without the ability to execute on it

Softr with an Airtable database

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