How No-Code Can Show Entrepreneurs How To Build Their Non-No-Code Startups

DIY is DIY, doesn’t matter if it’s applied to code, marketing, finance or whatever

If you’re going to tell someone what they should do, you should have already done it yourself.

This is one of the tenets I’ve built into the Teaching Startup answers-to-your-inbox advice model. If one of our advisors isn’t doing (or hasn’t done) the thing they’re about to tell someone else to do — at the very least, they should be honest about that before they give any advice. At best, they should say these three magic advisor words that rarely get said by advisors:

“I don’t know.”

The reason I installed this tenet into Teaching Startup is because when I was an emerging entrepreneur myself and looking for advice needles hidden in haystacks of bullshit, there were too many times when I heard:

“This is what you should do.”

Instead of:

“Here’s what I did.”

About a year ago, I decided that Teaching Startup desperately needed a better UX than a bunch of no-code and low-code services stapled together around an AWS S3 bucket which was quickly filling up with the hundreds of questions, answers, polls, and posts…