We didn’t have a technical cofounder when we started this content marketing agency, so we built our own tools using no-code software. Our front-end was built on Weebly with embedded Typeforms (left) to interact with the Airtable (right) data:
The PubLoft Writer portal
I worked closely with our strategists, customers, and writers to create use case-specific portals for each of them, and this system scaled us from $0 to $24,000/month in GMV! Read more:
How to Build a Full Stack App for $175/month
We envisioned sub-brands for PubLoft, including a “Writer Network” to help increase the success of each individual, and the “for startups” offshoot that aimed to offer free services to pre-seed, bootstrapped founders.
We ran this on Slack and it is ultimately what turned into GigLoft.
This quickly got relegated to the back burner in favor of paid work, until we could afford to do it.
We successfully launched on Product Hunt in 2018.
After the company
