[SOLD] No-Code Sale got acquired 🥳
Meet the new owner of No-Code Sale
At the beginning of this month, as part of my sprints goal for November,
I decided to sell No-Code Sale.
There’s a lot going on at the moment here,
which means I can’t work properly on No-Code Sale,
so I decided it would be better to look for someone else to take this over.
But first a recap of the No-Code Sale journey so far 👀
The idea for No-Code Sale originated about a year ago, after catching up with Miguel (@mmduarte), one of my peers during the No-Code Bootcamp back when I was a participant myself.
We chatted about everything we built since we graduated and laughed about how many things we didn’t actually launch properly. Half jokingly, we said we should organize some kind of garage sale where people could take over those old builds for a small amount.
No-Code Garage Sale
After the holidays I decided to actually go for it, and organize a No-Code Garage Sale: an online event where makers could pitch their old builds and others could acquire those for a bargain.
Miguel helped me with organizing the first edition and we launched the event together with Katt (@kattrisen) when she featured my previous exit in No-Code Exits
And fortunately, we were not the only ones that thought this could be a fun 🤗
The first event was a big success, with over 30 bids after the 7 live pitches from well known No-Coders like Kieran Ball (@nocodelife), Louis Pereira (@louispereira), Lee Launches (@LeeLaunches) and Glenn McWhinney (@TheFlowAgency).
Supported by these numbers I decided to move it forward and turn it into a monthly event with an online directory.
No-Code Sale
In addition to the live sale events I wanted to list all No-Code products in a directory as well. The idea was that visitors of the live events would have the first choice, but that we would release the unsold products online as well after 48 hours - to add some time pressure for buyers.
Nocodesale.com was available and with Softr - also one of the partner of our events - and Airtable I turned this into a No-Code directory. The generous Mark Bowley (@markbowley) offered to help me with the branding and created our logo and this beautiful imagery 🙂
In addition to that, a substack and Youtube-channel were created, to share the pitches of the products for sale and tell the stories of the makers and buyers.
No-Code Acquisitions
After we launched, 25 out of 70 products listed got sold via our events and directory.
The first maker who sold an old build via No-Code Sale was KP (@thisiskp_), just before Kieran Ball (@nocodelife). After that many other No-Code makers followed, including Katt Risen (@kattrisen), Doc Williams (@_docwilliams) and Hazel Lim (@byhazellim).
Build to sell
On the side I started a build to sell challenges, where makers built something with the sole purpose to sell this at the next No-Code Sale round. The first edition was just a Twitter group, but turned out very successfully. 50% of the participants actually listed a product for sale by the end, and all of those got sold.
After the first round I merged this with Katt Risen from No-Code Exits and we hosted two Build to Exit challenges together. Hazel Lim (@byhazellim) even sold two products after these challenges.
After the summer we decided to pivot this challenge and the associated community to sprints.so, where members can work on other maker goals as well besides selling.
In addition to that, I was busy the last months with the new program for our No-Code x AI Bootcamp (which we migrated to Maven) and renovating our new house 🏠
That’s why I came to the conclusion that it was better to look out for someone else to take over No-Code Sale from me, to help No-Code makers sell their old builds.
And with the help of many of you, I found a new owner 🎉
Thanks to everyone for thinking along with me about who could take over No-Code Sale. I really appreciate all your messages
A special shoutout to Hazel Lim (Juicy Ideas) and Shlomo Freund (Remote Revenues) for mentioning the sale listing in their newsletters 🙏
And the new owner is … 🥁
Acquired by Microns 🚀
After listing No-Code Sale for sale I received three serious inquiries. One of them was from Ilya Novohatskyi, the founder of Microns, one of the partners of our No-Code Sale events.
Knowing that No-Code Sale would go to someone who is dedicated to help makers sell their products for a few years already immediately felt good. Moreover, Ilya always was very supportive for No-Code Sale and our challenges. A great match!
With this acquisition, Ilya wants to attract more No-Code founders to the Microns community and help them sell their projects for free. One important reason for this is that Ilya noticed that more and more entrepreneurs in their buyer community are looking to acquire products built with No-Code tools. For these buyers it’s important that Microns has enough products listed that they could take over and run without a dev. With the acquisition of No-Code Sale Ilya wants to bring in more No-Code products for Micron’s buyers, by helping No-Code makers sell their products for free.
You’ll receive more information about this from Ilya, after we completed the transfer 🙂
I’m confident No-Code Sale is in good hands with Ilya and Microns and am looking forward to follow the next steps 🚀
Before I sign out, I want to thank everyone who supported No-Code Sale and participated in our events.
Especially everyone mentioned above, from Miguel, Katt, Mark and all the other OG’s, to Ilya.
I had a blast 🥳
Harold
PS here’s where I hang out if you want to work together:
