Tutorials
Build Custom AI Agents for Other Businesses
Scope a custom business agent around one workflow, approved sources, read-only testing, and human review.
7 min read · Aug 15, 2026
Field Notes
The MVMP Labs blog: practical AI for business
Plain-language guides from the developers, marketers and operators who put AI to work every day, so you can see what it can do for your business.
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AI-Assisted Building
Durable workflows: how to stop automations disappearing after a button click
Save business changes and queued work together, then use claims, retries, provider checks, and crash recovery.
7 min read · Jul 16, 2026
Create Short Video Clips from Tella Transcripts with Claude
Find useful Tella transcript moments, convert trim boundaries into seconds, and review a copied clip before export.
5 min read · Jan 14, 2026
Automate Tella to YouTube Uploads With a Review Step
Export Tella videos, stop on failed exports, upload privately to YouTube, and review before public publishing.
9 min read · Jan 13, 2026
Turn Tella Video Transcripts Into Blog Posts With Claude
Turn a Tella transcript into an article draft while preserving meaning, checking claims, and completing human review.
8 min read · Jan 13, 2026
Getting Started with Tella MCP in Claude Desktop
Connect Tella to Claude through current connector methods, test read access, inspect tool inputs, and review bounded edits.
13 min read · Jan 13, 2026
Directory Websites
How to Monetize a Directory Website with Paid Online Communities
A directory can introduce vendors to a paid community. The community needs its own useful offer beyond exposure on your website.
4 min read · Jul 18, 2025
Directory Websites
Build Directory Category and Location Pages for Long-Tail Searches
Design directory category and location pages with useful listings, unique URLs, checked sync behavior, and realistic SEO expectations.
13 min read · Jul 9, 2025
Directory Websites
How to Build a Directory Outreach System
Prepare directory outreach drafts using listing previews and videos. Keep sends manual and track replies and stop rules.
8 min read · May 9, 2025
Directory Websites
How I’d Build a Directory Website as a Complete Beginner
Follow a beginner directory roadmap from a Notion prototype to reviewed listings, CMS pages, automation, and revenue tests.
18 min read · Apr 23, 2025+1
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Directory Websites
How to Build High-Quality Listing Pages for Your Directory
Build directory detail pages with useful content blocks, CMS fields, reviewed source facts, and a clear Airtable-to-Webflow ownership model.
6 min read · Apr 16, 2025+1
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Directory Websites
How Corey Moen Built No-Code Supply – A High-Quality No-Code Directory Using Webflow & Airtable
Corey Moen’s No-Code Supply case study covers curation, Webflow, Airtable, scripts, sponsorships, and design choices.
4 min read · Apr 8, 2025
Directory Websites
How Whalesync Built a 1,000+ Listing AI Tools Directory in 1 Week (No-Code Stack Breakdown)
This interview describes how Whalesync built an AI tools directory using Webflow and Airtable. The one-week timeline and listing count describe the team's original account, not.
4 min read · Mar 27, 2025
Directory Websites
How to Choose and Structure a Directory Database
Choose between Webflow CMS, Airtable, and a relational database; design listing relationships and check recovery limits.
3 min read · Mar 6, 2025
Tool Reviews
How to Import Relume Styles and Pages into Webflow
Approve a Relume sitemap and style direction, import one page into Webflow, and check classes, content, and accessibility.
7 min read · Mar 4, 2025
Tool Reviews
Webflow AI Site Builder: My HueSync First Look
I used a fictional Canadian agency, HueSync, to explore Webflow's AI site builder. The first look showed a useful starting layout, followed by editing work inside Webflow. I still needed to review the copy, images, forms, and mobile spacing.
3 min read · Feb 28, 2025
Directory Websites
Organize Directory Competitor Research with Automation
Competitor research helps you understand what customers already use. Automation can organize evidence, but a person still needs to review it.
3 min read · Feb 24, 2025
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How to Build an SEO-Friendly Directory Listing Page in Webflow (Step-by-Step Guide)
Build a directory listing page with Webflow CMS and current Finsweet filters, then check usability and indexing separately.
11 min read · Feb 24, 2025+1
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Directory Websites
How to Research Keywords for Useful Directory Pages
Map directory search phrases to useful calendar and detail pages using checked sources, then measure indexing and visitor actions.
4 min read · Feb 17, 2025
Directory Websites
How to Pick the Right Directory Niche
Use five checks to evaluate a directory niche, then test buyer and supplier assumptions with a small interview exercise.
10 min read · Feb 12, 2025
Directory Websites
How to Test Directory Revenue Before You Have a Large Audience
A new directory can sell a useful service before it attracts a large audience. Start with work you can deliver directly.
4 min read · Feb 5, 2025
Tutorials
How to Build Custom Webflow CMS Features with ChatGPT & AI
I built a weekly calendar for The Running Directory Canada using Webflow CMS content and ChatGPT-assisted JavaScript. The calendar grouped run-club events by weekday and moved today's day to the front.
2 min read · Feb 3, 2025
Directory Websites
How to Find The High Quality Data for Your Directory 2025: Step-by-Step Guide
Find and check directory data, document image permission, review AI research, and standardize race distances deterministically.
12 min read · Jan 22, 2025+1
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Directory Websites
How To Build A Local Directory Website in 2025 (Step-By-Step)
Explore the original Running Directory build, including four pages, Airtable schema, syncing, current filters, and test steps.
15 min read · Jan 17, 2025+2
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Marketplaces
How to Use AI in Your Marketplace
Explore AI job drafts, support drafts, and marketplace recommendations, with human review and specific measures for assessing usefulness.
5 min read · Dec 23, 2024
Marketplaces
How to Use Stripe for Marketplace Payments
Stripe can collect your platform's own fees or support payments involving independent sellers. Those require different designs.
2 min read · Dec 18, 2024
Marketplaces
How To Automate Marketplace Workflows with Make.com
Explore marketplace workflows with Make, including onboarding, enquiries, CMS updates, reviewed AI drafts, and failure checks.
8 min read · Dec 7, 2024
Marketplaces
How to Build and Manage Your Marketplace Backend with Airtable
A marketplace needs clear relationships between people, projects, and applications. Airtable can provide an editing workspace for that information.
4 min read · Dec 5, 2024
Marketplaces
How to Build a No-Code Marketplace with Webflow
Build an enquiry-based marketplace MVP with Webflow pages, CMS profiles, a contact form, and an end-to-end submission check.
11 min read · Dec 2, 2024
Build a Support Draft Assistant with Approved Knowledge
A support assistant needs approved business knowledge and clear limits before it needs automatic sending. The original example asked how a freelancer could join Unicorn Factory. Use that question to design a reviewed answer workflow.
2 min read · Nov 20, 2024
Solopreneurship
Keep Working, Review Feedback, and Adjust Your Next Test
Use a small outreach test, review feedback, and set limits before increasing effort or expecting better conversion rates.
2 min read · Nov 18, 2024
Case Studies
How I Built a Job Board with Automated Workflows
A Unicorn Factory job-board case study with automated workflows, human approvals, private-data checks, and failure handling.
11 min read · Sep 25, 2024
Marketplaces
How to Design a Credit Payment System for Your Marketplace
Design a marketplace credit ledger with verified purchases, enforced redemption, duplicate handling, and refund rules.
5 min read · Sep 17, 2024
Tutorials
How to Map Common Airtable Fields to Webflow CMS
Map Airtable values to Webflow CMS types using option IDs, image objects, deterministic rich text, and staged JSON examples.
8 min read · Sep 17, 2024
Tutorials
How to Automate Webflow CMS Updates with Airtable and Make.com: A Complete Guide
Create and update Webflow CMS items from Airtable through Make, with stored IDs, staged JSON, duplicate handling, and recovery checks.
3 min read · Sep 17, 2024
Tutorials
How To Setup an Airtable to Webflow Workflow in Make
Build Webflow fieldData JSON in Make with staged sample reads, option IDs, complete request examples, and explicit reuse.
3 min read · Sep 17, 2024
Case Studies
Introducing MVMP Labs: Build Your MVP with No-Code Tools
Historical announcement, updated October 7, 2026: this article describes the original MVMP Labs community beta. The course library is closed to new members. Existing members.
1 min read · Sep 11, 2024
Tutorials
How to Automate B2B Lead Generation: Scrape Google My Business with Apify and Make.com
Build a reviewed B2B research list with Apify, Make, and Airtable, using source evidence, duplicate checks, and controlled enrichment.
3 min read · Aug 28, 2024
Tool Reviews
Skool vs. Circle: Which Platform is Best for Managing and Scaling Your Online Community?
Compare Circle and Skool through navigation, automation, current advertised plans, and clearly labeled cost assumptions.
8 min read · Aug 19, 2024
Tutorials
How We Automated Client Follow-Ups on Unicorn Factory
Plan status-based client follow-ups with Make and Airtable, using due dates, stop rules, duplicate checks, and delivery evidence.
3 min read · Aug 19, 2024
Marketplaces
Set Up a Marketplace Demand Test in One Day
You can set up a marketplace demand test in one day. Collecting meaningful evidence usually takes longer, especially without an existing audience. This method suits talent marketplaces where you manually match clients with suitable freelancers.
3 min read · Aug 14, 2024
Marketplaces
7 Proven Business Models to Monetize Your Marketplace
Your marketplace business model decides who pays and what they receive. Compare that value with the cost of providing it.
4 min read · Aug 8, 2024
Tutorials
How to Track Webflow CMS Form Submissions Easily | Step-by-Step Guide
If one form appears across your CMS pages, each submission needs a useful page identifier. For workshops, pass the workshop name or slug through a hidden input. Then send that value to Airtable with the rest of the enquiry.
3 min read · Jul 31, 2024
Marketplaces
How Much Does It Cost To Run A No-Code Marketplace?
Your marketplace budget changes as you move from testing demand to fulfilling paid work. Separate recurring software, setup work, transaction fees, and customer acquisition before choosing tools.
3 min read · Jul 30, 2024
Marketplaces
How to Find Your Marketplace Niche: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
A marketplace niche gives you one buyer group and one problem to investigate. Start there before building a broad platform.
4 min read · Jul 30, 2024
Tutorials
How to Count Words in Airtable: Step-by-Step Guide
Count whitespace-separated words in Airtable with normalised text, blank handling, and checks for repeated spaces, tabs, and line breaks.
2 min read · Jul 30, 2024
Marketplaces
My No-Code Marketplace Stack: The 2024 Unicorn Factory Example
Review my 2024 marketplace stack and evaluate data ownership, private access, sync limits, payments, and operating costs.
11 min read · Jul 30, 2024+4
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Tool Reviews
Webflow Apps: Choose Extensions by the Task
Webflow Apps brought more third-party tools into the Designer. My original tour discussed Unsplash, Jasper AI, and Finsweet Table. The useful question is which task an app completes, and what access it needs.
2 min read · Aug 30, 2023
Tool Reviews
5 Glide AI Features To Use In Your Next Project
Five AI app patterns for text drafts, knowledge answers, audio transcripts, documents, and receipts, with focused review steps.
3 min read · Aug 10, 2023
Tool Reviews
Relume AI Site Builder: How To Create AI Sitemaps and Wireframes for Webflow
Use a beginner Relume travel-blog prompt to plan a sitemap, edit wireframes, review copy, and prepare the next export step.
2 min read · Aug 10, 2023
Marketing & Growth
How To Automatically Generate Open Graph Images For Your Landing Pages
A custom Open Graph image can show a page's own title and product screenshot when someone shares its link. This final landing-page lesson uses Placid to create that image from Airtable data. It follows approved Webflow updates.
2 min read · May 8, 2023
Tutorials
Landing-Page Series: Send Approved Airtable Fields to Webflow
This second landing-page lesson sends approved Airtable copy to an existing Webflow CMS item. It follows the drafting step and precedes the Placid image step.
2 min read · May 8, 2023
Tutorials
6 Ways To Become A Better Webflow Developer
Six practical Webflow habits covering style guides, components, class names, realistic content, and on-page search basics.
2 min read · May 8, 2023
Marketing & Growth
Draft Landing-Page SEO Fields with Airtable and OpenAI
This landing-page series starts by drafting title tags, descriptions, and headings in Airtable. AI can produce a first draft from approved page facts. You still decide what gets published.
2 min read · May 8, 2023
Tutorials
How To Hide and Show Elements in Memberstack
Use Memberstack 2.0 visibility attributes for login and plan states while enforcing private data access separately.
3 min read · Apr 5, 2023
Tool Reviews
Relume Ipsum: Review AI Landing-Page Copy Before Publishing
Review AI landing-page copy against verified facts, compare illustrative drafts, and approve wording before importing it.
3 min read · Mar 20, 2023
Tutorials
Convert Webflow CMS Images to WebP with Kraken and Make
This workflow converts CMS images from PNG or JPEG to WebP using Kraken.io and Make. I originally used Airtable as the image source, with Webflow as the publishing destination. Measure the result before claiming a performance improvement.
3 min read · Jan 10, 2023
Tool Reviews
How to Diagnose Common Webflow Performance Issues with Lighthouse
A slow Webflow page needs a measured diagnosis before you change its design. Lighthouse provides a repeatable starting point.
2 min read · Jan 5, 2023
Building a Cover Letter Generator with Wized: Project Flow and API Example
Preserve the coverletter.ai project flow while planning protected requests, input limits, loading states, and reviewed cover-letter drafts.
4 min read · Dec 30, 2022
Tutorials
How To Use "Line Clamping" in Webflow
Apply two- and three-line CSS clamping to Webflow card previews, with correct style placement and small-screen checks.
3 min read · Dec 28, 2022
Tutorials
How To Build Advanced Search and Filtering For Your Webflow Site
Build a book search and filter page with numeric sorting, GA4 page-view imports, consistent URL matching, and Airtable-to-Webflow sync.
4 min read · Dec 23, 2022
How To Automate Generating Social Posts with AI
Build an AI social-post draft workflow with Airtable, Make, and Placid. Review posts before scheduling and handle failures safely.
6 min read · Dec 14, 2022
How I Built AI-Assisted Book Landing Pages with Webflow
A booknotes.ai case study covering checked AI drafts, Airtable records, Webflow pages, review, and recommendation limits.
3 min read · Dec 9, 2022+1
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Relume Class Sync: How To Automatically Apply Your Webflow Styles To New Components
Use Relume Class Sync to match incoming Webflow classes, inspect collisions, and clean up existing duplicates.
1 min read · Dec 5, 2022
Tool Reviews
Whalesync: How To Sync Data Between Airtable and Webflow
Whalesync connects corresponding records across tools such as Airtable and Webflow. Two-way syncing can support editors working in either tool.
2 min read · Nov 18, 2022
Tool Reviews
Planning a Memberstack 1.0 to 2.0 Migration
Migrating a membership site needs an inventory of members, plans, workflows, and custom code. Changing the installed script is only one step.
2 min read · Nov 7, 2022
Tutorials
How To Create A User Generated Testimonial Feature
Build linked testimonial collections in Webflow and match approved Airtable testimonials to one CMS item.
3 min read · Oct 26, 2022
Tool Reviews
Airtable Interfaces: How To Build Custom Interfaces For Your Team
Build an Airtable client interface with controlled editing, a complete Make webhook script, and limited record tests.
3 min read · Oct 17, 2022
Tutorials
How To Use Output.Set in Airtable Automations
Pass named script outputs into later Airtable automation actions with a complete mock response example and missing-value checks.
2 min read · Oct 14, 2022
AI-Assisted Building
Trigger Make Workflows from Airtable with Webhooks
An Airtable automation can send a record ID to Make through a webhook. Make can then retrieve that record and continue the workflow.
2 min read · Oct 14, 2022
AI-Assisted Building
Airtable Scripts: How to Bulk Update Multiple Records Easily
An Airtable script can update a selected group of records. Keep that group explicit before changing any values.
2 min read · Oct 12, 2022
Tool Reviews
Airtable Automations: How To Recreate Zapier Workflows in Airtable
Create a staged Webflow item from Airtable Automations using a complete JSON body, a scoped token, and returned-ID checks.
1 min read · Jun 17, 2022
Tutorials
How I Use Video To Create A Better Onboarding Experience
A historical Unicorn Factory onboarding video, with practical notes for placing focused walkthroughs beside the task they explain.
1 min read · Jun 13, 2022
Tool Reviews
Moving Unicorn Factory Workflows From Zapier to Make: My 2022 Update
A historical Unicorn Factory migration update, with a practical checklist for comparing one Zapier and Make workflow before moving it.
2 min read · Jun 13, 2022
Solopreneurship
Lessons from My First SaaS Business
Watch my first SaaS business story and use a simple reflection exercise to choose one assumption to test next.
1 min read · Jun 13, 2022
Tool Reviews
Flowbase: How To Build Better Webflow Sites With This New Component Library
Review the historical Flowbase extension tour, current component access, class checks, and licensing considerations.
1 min read · Mar 28, 2022
Solopreneurship
What To Do When Your Customers Copy Your Business
Watch my Unicorn Factory copying story and separate evidence, customer impact, and response choices before taking action.
2 min read · Mar 28, 2022
Tool Reviews
Circle Live Streams, Events, and Paywalls: A 2022 Review
A dated Circle feature review covering live streams, events, mobile access, and paywalls, with a current comparison next step.
4 min read · Feb 18, 2022
Tutorials
How To Structure Webflow CMS Workflows in Make and Zapier
A Webflow CMS workflow needs to distinguish new items from existing items. Save the Webflow item ID when you create each item.
2 min read · Feb 17, 2022
Tutorials
Map Webflow CMS Fields in Zapier or Make: Part 2
A Webflow field needs a value in the correct format. Similar-looking Airtable fields may produce different output shapes.
2 min read · Feb 17, 2022
Tutorials
How To Work With Reference Fields In The Webflow CMS
Map single and multi-reference Webflow fields using destination item IDs, unresolved-link checks, and full-request guidance.
2 min read · Feb 17, 2022
Tool Reviews
Stripe Payment Links: How I Build A Simple E-Commerce Store in Airtable
Use an Airtable catalog with Stripe Payment Links, then confirm payments, create unique orders, and fulfill once.
2 min read · Feb 1, 2022
Tutorials
How To Send Webflow Form Submissions Directly To Airtable
You can receive Webflow form submissions with Airtable's incoming webhook automation. This historical lesson connects a Webflow form to a Messages table without Zapier or Integromat.
2 min read · Jan 20, 2022
Tool Reviews
Airtable Conditional Actions: How To Use Logic In Your Airtable Automations
Use Airtable conditional actions with an approved/rejected rule and clear matching and nonmatching test outcomes.
1 min read · Jan 20, 2022
Tutorials
My 2022 Code Meets No-Code Tools Tour
Review my 2022 Code Meets No-Code tool tour and separate member identity, private data, and payment access requirements.
1 min read · Jan 11, 2022
Case Studies
Code Meets No-Code: The Original Airtable Script Library Launch
The historical Code Meets No-Code launch announcement, with a current learning route for beginner Airtable scripts.
1 min read · Jan 10, 2022
Tutorials
How To Automatically Generate A Slide Deck From Airtable
Generate Google Slides from Airtable lesson records using template tags, private destinations, and repeat-run tracking.
2 min read · Dec 30, 2021
Marketing & Growth
How to Automatically Create Facebook Ad Creatives For Your Landing Pages
Generate landing-page ad image drafts with Figma, Placid, Airtable, and Make, then review layouts and destination details.
4 min read · Dec 30, 2021
Tool Reviews
Placid: How To Generate Dynamic Open Graph Images
Map Placid image outputs into Webflow CMS Open Graph fields, with fallback images and social-share output checks.
2 min read · Dec 30, 2021
Solopreneurship
5 Tech Skills You Can Explore Without Writing Code
Five skills from a historical Unicorn Factory video, with practical first projects for exploring website, automation, data, ads, and copywriting work.
2 min read · Nov 16, 2021
Tool Reviews
Airtable Interface Designer: My First Look and a Team Exercise
A historical Airtable Interface Designer first look, with a focused enquiry-review exercise and current permission guidance.
1 min read · Nov 16, 2021
Tool Reviews
Zapier Transfers: How To Bulk Automate In Zapier
Plan a limited Airtable-to-Sheets transfer with source IDs, field mapping, matching counts, and controlled retries.
2 min read · Oct 25, 2021
Solopreneurship
How to Build MVPs and Add Features to No-Code Projects in 5 Simple Steps
A five-step no-code MVP process covering the goal, page design, static build, CMS fields, and automation, with a full user-journey check.
4 min read · Oct 23, 2021
Tutorials
How To Automate Rich Text Into the Webflow CMS
Convert user-submitted Markdown into Webflow rich text with a small input/output example, sanitization, and field mapping.
2 min read · Oct 23, 2021
Tool Reviews
Why I Compared Integromat and Zapier for Unicorn Factory
This historical recording compares Integromat with Zapier through a Unicorn Factory workflow. Integromat is now called Make. The useful comparison starts with your workflow's shape, volume, and recovery needs.
1 min read · Oct 23, 2021
AI-Assisted Building
How To Delete Webflow CMS Items via Airtable Scripts
Delete one confirmed Webflow test draft from Airtable with a default dry run, saved snapshot, and recovery guidance.
3 min read · Oct 23, 2021
AI-Assisted Building
How To Use Airtable Scripts To Automate The Webflow CMS - Part 2
This is part two of my Airtable-to-Webflow scripting series. The original lesson used Airtable scripts and buttons to update existing CMS items without Zapier or Integromat.
2 min read · Oct 23, 2021
Tutorials
Use Airtable to Update Webflow CMS Items: Part 1
You can use Airtable as an editing interface for Webflow CMS content. The workflow sends Airtable changes to the matching Webflow item.
2 min read · Oct 23, 2021
Tutorials
Follow These 5 Steps To Build New Features
This five-step process starts with the outcome a customer needs. My original Unicorn Factory example focused on contacting a freelancer.
3 min read · Oct 23, 2021
AI-Assisted Building
How To Write Webflow CMS Scripts in Airtable
Create a Webflow draft from Airtable with a complete v2 script, named inputs, secrets, dry run, and duplicate stop rules.
3 min read · Oct 23, 2021
Solopreneurship
Do I Have Too Many Side Projects?
Use return on effort, learning, shared ideas, and bottlenecks to decide whether another side project fits your commitments.
2 min read · Oct 23, 2021
Marketplaces
How to Measure Marketplace Growth
Measure marketplace growth through leads, supply and demand stages, qualified-lead definitions, and duplicate handling.
5 min read · Oct 23, 2021
Tutorials
How To Manage Large Scale No-Code Projects
Document no-code workflows using triggers, owners, inputs, outputs, dependencies, failure alerts, and recovery steps.
2 min read · Oct 23, 2021
Solopreneurship
How to Decide When Your No-Code Tools Need to Change
Decide whether to change no-code tools by checking current limits, requirements, recovery effort, and migration costs.
2 min read · Sep 13, 2021
Marketplaces
A Discussion About Early Marketplace Features and Growth
An Everything Marketplaces question prompted this discussion about Unicorn Factory's early product decisions. The recording covers pre-launch goals, the feature discussion, and how I thought about marketplace growth.
1 min read · Sep 8, 2021
Tool Reviews
Ycode: A Historical First Look and Current Evaluation Checklist
This recording is a historical first look at Ycode as an alternative website builder. Use it to understand the earlier tour, then compare today's product against your own brief.
1 min read · Sep 8, 2021
Marketplaces
Why I Used Webflow for My Marketplace Website
I used Webflow for the public website layer of Unicorn Factory. This historical recording explains that choice within my marketplace setup.
1 min read · Sep 8, 2021
AI-Assisted Building
How to Start Writing Airtable Automation Scripts
An Airtable automation script can send data to an external API. Start with a read-only request before allowing account changes.
2 min read · Aug 27, 2021
Tool Reviews
6 Webflow Tools To Level Up Your Webflow Builds
Six Webflow tool examples for client feedback, components, interfaces, CMS browsing, and animation, with practical selection checks.
3 min read · Aug 19, 2021
Case Studies
Art By Locals: How To Build An Art Marketplace with Webflow
The Art By Locals case study preserves its original marketplace story, tool choices, community lessons, and recording.
1 min read · Aug 19, 2021
Marketplaces
How to Price Your Marketplace Offering
Five marketplace pricing principles covering free plans, operating costs, price changes, investment, and delivery expectations.
2 min read · Aug 19, 2021
Marketing & Growth
Before Building a Marketplace: Define the First Demand Test
This historical marketplace lesson focuses on preparation before building the full product. Use the recording as a starting discussion, then define the demand test you can actually run.
1 min read · Aug 5, 2021
Tutorials
How to Receive Incoming Webhooks in Airtable Automations
An incoming webhook lets another system start an Airtable automation. Airtable gives the automation a receiving URL.
2 min read · Jul 30, 2021
Tutorials
How I Created A Dynamic Customer Portal in Webflow
Explore the historical Unicorn Factory Webflow portal stack and clarify identity, private data, and public sync ownership.
2 min read · Jul 30, 2021
Tutorials
Webflow Color Variables: The Practical Lesson Behind Global Swatches
For my first two years using Webflow, I did not understand the benefit of global color swatches. The practical lesson was simple: one shared color should have one shared definition. Webflow now provides color variables for that job.
2 min read · Jul 28, 2021
Case Studies
Fedjobs.ca: How We Built A Simple Mini Course Platform in Webflow
The FedJobs.ca mini-course case study covers static lessons, memberships, support, learner outcomes, and access checks.
2 min read · Jul 23, 2021
Tool Reviews
5 Different Ways To Add A Buy Button To Your Webflow Site
Choose a payment setup based on what you sell and what happens after payment. A payment button alone does not manage delivery or membership access.
2 min read · Jul 20, 2021
Tool Reviews
MailerLite or MailerSend? Match the Tool to the Email
I used MailerLite for Unicorn Factory's community updates and MailerSend for individual client enquiry notifications. Those emails serve different purposes, even when both start from an automated event.
2 min read · Jul 15, 2021
Tool Reviews
Flowbase Components: My Historical Copy-and-Paste Review
I explored Flowbase's component library as an alternative to starting every Webflow project from a full template. The original lesson focused on copying individual components into a project without cloning an entire site.
2 min read · Jul 9, 2021
Tutorials
How To Prefill Airtable Forms
A prefilled Airtable form starts with values supplied in its URL. It can reduce typing when someone submits profile changes.
2 min read · Jul 9, 2021
Marketing & Growth
A Beginner's Guide To Search Console: How Are People Finding You?
Use Google Search Console to choose a website property, read search queries, and assess one page before changing its title or content.
2 min read · Jul 4, 2021
AI-Assisted Building
A Beginner's Guide To "IFELSE" Workflows
An IF formula chooses a result based on a condition. You can use it to label records before an automation acts.
2 min read · Jul 4, 2021
Case Studies
5 Incredible Webflow CMS Projects
Explore five historical Webflow CMS project examples and use their listing patterns to plan a small directory or marketplace.
2 min read · Jul 4, 2021
Tutorials
How To Organize Automations For Scale
Keep Airtable workflow views separate from everyday views, and check eligibility before connected automations run.
2 min read · Jul 4, 2021
AI-Assisted Building
A Beginner's Guide To Webhooks
A webhook is a message one service sends to another when an event happens. The receiving service supplies a URL.
2 min read · Jun 20, 2021
Tutorials
Choose an Automation Tool: Events, Bulk Work, or Sync
I used five automation tools around Unicorn Factory: Zapier, Integromat, Parabola, Airtable Automations, and Nobull. Integromat is now Make. Each tool addressed a different kind of work. Choose the job before comparing subscriptions.
3 min read · Jun 17, 2021
Tool Reviews
Airtable vs Google Sheets: Choose Around Your Workflow
Compare Airtable and Google Sheets around relationships, formulas, team editing, and automation before choosing a database for your project.
2 min read · Jun 13, 2021
Tutorials
How To Build A Watchlist Feature in Memberstack
Plan a Webflow saved-items feature with Jetboost and Memberstack, including persistence and separate-user checks.
2 min read · Jun 9, 2021
Tool Reviews
Circle.so Review: How I Organized the Unicorn Factory Community
See how I organized Unicorn Factory onboarding and discussions with Circle spaces after using Slack.
3 min read · Jun 6, 2021
Tool Reviews
Chipbot Pylons: My Website Video Popup Experiment
Review my historical Chipbot Pylons video popup experiment and plan a small website test without assuming conversion gains.
2 min read · May 31, 2021
Tutorials
How To Use Stripe Payment Links
Stripe Payment Links provide a hosted checkout you can share from a website button. You can use them for a product, service, or subscription.
2 min read · May 26, 2021
Tutorials
How To Set Up User-Specific Links in Memberstack
Use Memberstack 2.0 to add member-specific profile links in Webflow, with URL validation and logged-out checks.
2 min read · May 19, 2021
Tutorials
How To Setup Conditional Forms in Webflow
Use Webflow interactions to show form questions. Understand default states, required fields, and branch submission checks.
2 min read · May 16, 2021
Solopreneurship
6 Skills To Become A Great Non-Technical Founder
Six founder skills from building Unicorn Factory, with a first-week checklist for marketing, websites, sales, automation, hiring, and finance.
3 min read · May 12, 2021
Tool Reviews
7 No-Code Chrome Extensions: A Historical Tour
A historical tour of seven browser extensions, with current checks for support, permissions, shared classes, and data capture.
2 min read · May 3, 2021
Tutorials
How I Started Building a Startup with No-Code Tools
An early Unicorn Factory recording about choosing no-code tools and starting with one useful customer task.
1 min read · May 2, 2021
Tool Reviews
Nobull: A Historical Airtable and Webflow Sync Tour
This historical first look explores Finsweet's Nobull Airtable app for Webflow. The recording first exports Webflow content into Airtable, then sends edited content back.
1 min read · Apr 29, 2021
Tool Reviews
11 Webflow Tools: A Historical Tour and Selection Checklist
A historical tour of eleven Webflow tools, with practical checks for accounts, search, translation, consent, analytics, and commerce.
2 min read · Apr 25, 2021
Tutorials
How To Create A content Publishing Workflow with No-Code
Plan a YouTube publishing workflow with separate website, Facebook, and LinkedIn fields, approvals, and posted-status records.
2 min read · Apr 19, 2021
Tutorials
A Beginner's Guide To Pre-Launch Landing Pages
Build a pre-launch page with Webflow, Airtable, and Zapier, then check form mapping, duplicate handling, and the promised signup outcome.
2 min read · Apr 19, 2021
Case Studies
Can You Build a Fiverr-Style Marketplace with Webflow?
Scope a Fiverr-style marketplace with Webflow. Compare listings, accounts, messaging, payments, and the limits of a first version.
2 min read · Apr 3, 2021
Marketing & Growth
How Uber Built Momentum In New Markets
Preserve the Uber Wellington supplier-onboarding story and apply its early recruiting lesson to a marketplace.
2 min read · Apr 1, 2021
Marketing & Growth
How To Bulk Manage SEO in Webflow
I used Airtable formulas and Parabola to manage SEO titles and descriptions across Webflow CMS pages. The useful idea is to review metadata in a table before sending it to the website.
2 min read · Mar 26, 2021
Tutorials
How To Build A No-Code Ranking Algorithm
Understand the original no-code ranking lesson and use a labeled sample score to explore inputs, ties, and refresh rules.
2 min read · Mar 25, 2021
Tutorials
How To Setup Email Sequences Using Mailerlite
Plan an end-of-trial email sequence with Airtable state, MailerLite rules, upgrade suppression, and duplicate-send checks.
2 min read · Mar 16, 2021
Tool Reviews
Google Optimize: My Historical Webflow Landing-Page Testing Workflow
A historical Google Optimize testing tour, with a current method for defining conversions, variations, and experiment review.
2 min read · Mar 14, 2021
Tool Reviews
A Beginner's Guide To Jotform (2021 Edition)
Review my 2021 Jotform choice and test a current job-board payment flow with approval and publication handled separately.
2 min read · Mar 10, 2021
Tool Reviews
How to Use Google Analytics 4 for Marketplace Enquiries
Use Google Analytics to answer a specific question about your website. Start with the action that matters to your business.
2 min read · Mar 7, 2021
Tool Reviews
Webflow CMS Tips: Page Text, Filters, Sorting, and Related Lists
A six-topic Webflow CMS checklist covering page text, filters, sorting, badges, related records, and nested lists.
2 min read · Mar 4, 2021
Tool Reviews
Is Airtable Automations the Best No Code Automation Tool?
Evaluate Airtable Automations through profile updates, overwrite behavior, current limits, and workflow requirements.
2 min read · Feb 28, 2021
Tutorials
How To Build A Simple E-Learning Platform With No-Code Tools
Compare a custom Webflow learning platform with hosted course options through access, support, and maintenance requirements.
2 min read · Feb 25, 2021
Tutorials
A Guide To Webflow CMS Errors
Diagnose Webflow CMS validation failures by checking collection changes, reference IDs, field types, and publishing state.
2 min read · Feb 21, 2021
Tutorials
How To Verify Emails For Your Membership Site
Use Memberstack email verification modes and check unverified access, expired links, and membership entitlement.
2 min read · Feb 17, 2021
Tutorials
Social Media Post Generation: A Historical Workflow Video
A historical social media workflow video, with planning notes for approved sources, draft review, and duplicate prevention.
1 min read · Feb 14, 2021
Tool Reviews
Parabola: How To Bulk Update Your Data Across Platforms
Match Airtable rows to Webflow item IDs in Parabola before limited bulk updates, count checks, and recovery planning.
2 min read · Feb 9, 2021
Tutorials
How To Create Membership Sites in Webflow
Plan Webflow memberships with Memberstack, including signup, plans, private data, and unauthorized-access checks.
2 min read · Feb 2, 2021
Tool Reviews
MailerSend: How To Send Transactional Emails
Map MailerSend personalization variables, use a verified sender, test with your own address, and check provider delivery activity.
2 min read · Jan 25, 2021
Tool Reviews
Jetboost: How To Set up Search and Filtering in Webflow
Set up a Jetboost search and filter overview for Webflow CMS, then check known results, empty states, and mobile use.
1 min read · Jan 19, 2021
Tool Reviews
Webflow or Bubble? Choose a Prototype by Its Requirements
I learned Webflow, Airtable, and Zapier while building Unicorn Factory. Bubble later made me reconsider which parts belonged in a website and which needed application behavior. Choose between them using the prototype's actual requirements.
2 min read · Jan 12, 2021
Tutorials
Send Airtable Multi-Reference Values to Webflow with Zapier
Webflow multi-reference fields store several related Collection item IDs. My historical Zapier lesson built a JSON array from Airtable values. Keep that array idea, but use the current API's request structure.
2 min read · Jan 4, 2021
Tutorials
How To Build A User-Generated Portfolio Site
Build a linked portfolio gallery in Webflow, with freelancer references, approved images, and create-once update checks.
2 min read · Dec 28, 2020
Marketing & Growth
How Marketplace Business Make Money
A marketplace can charge suppliers, buyers, or partners. Choose who receives the clearest value before choosing a payment tool.
1 min read · Dec 24, 2020
Tutorials
Webflow Backups and Airtable: Plan a Safe Recovery
Restoring Webflow can affect the systems connected to your site. This historical lesson used Parabola to reconcile Webflow items with Airtable after a restore.
2 min read · Dec 21, 2020
Marketing & Growth
How To Find Customers Fast For Your Marketplace
New marketplaces need buyers and suppliers before either group receives much value. Start by helping one small group complete a useful match.
2 min read · Dec 17, 2020
Tutorials
How To Automate Webflow Reference Fields with Zapier
A Webflow Reference field connects one CMS item to another. A Multi-reference field connects it to several items.
2 min read · Dec 14, 2020
Tool Reviews
My 2020 No-Code Tools Bill Reviewed
Explore my historical 2020 no-code tool bill chapters and build your own current budget without assuming old prices apply.
2 min read · Dec 11, 2020
Tutorials
How To Build A Simple User Analytics Dashboard in Webflow
Plan a freelancer analytics dashboard with GA4 reports, consistent date windows, and private account access.
2 min read · Dec 8, 2020
Tutorials
Your First Directory: Start with a Small Airtable Base
A simple restaurant directory helped illustrate how an Airtable base can become a useful first directory. Start with a small set of records you can check yourself.
1 min read · Nov 30, 2020
Marketplaces
How I Automate The Lead Matching Workflow on Unicorn Factory
Store and review marketplace leads, match trusted freelancer records, and track approved email delivery without duplicate sends.
4 min read · Nov 30, 2020
Tool Reviews
A Beginner's Guide to Webflow (2020 Edition)
Learn Webflow by changing small projects and explaining what changed. A finished practice page teaches more than another saved tutorial.
2 min read · Nov 25, 2020
Tutorials
How To Hack Together A Profile Updates Feature With Memberstack
Review a historical freelancer profile-update workflow with owner checks, approved fields, and recoverable sync requests.
2 min read · Nov 23, 2020
Tool Reviews
Zapier Crash Course: Organize a YouTube Project from Airtable
My example Zap starts when a YouTube idea becomes ready for production in Airtable. It creates a Drive folder, a script document, and a Calendar event. Start with one test video before automating your whole production list.
3 min read · Nov 18, 2020
Marketplaces
How I Automate Onboarding On My Freelancer Marketplace
Explore my historical freelancer onboarding system, with review states, identity binding, publication checks, and recovery paths.
5 min read · Nov 17, 2020
Tool Reviews
My No-Code Tools Stack (2020 Edition)
My 2020 Unicorn Factory tool stack explains Webflow, Airtable, Zapier, Memberstack, Jetboost, Parabola, and MailerLite roles.
4 min read · Nov 13, 2020
Automation
Use the Tella Video API for Library Sync and Blog Drafts
Use Tella API pagination and playlist events for a library sync or reviewed blog draft, with duplicate and readiness checks.
4 min read
Tool Reviews
Circle AI Agents Review: Automate Community Management with AI
Read my Circle AI Agent tests, current plan notes, and a support-demand method for evaluating cost and answer quality.
8 min read
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