Using no-code as a proof of concept

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No-code is a set of tools that allow you to create websites, apps and software all without writing a single line of code. By Bobi Robson.

A proof of concept (POC) is something that is built to test an idea and to prove that it is worthy of investment. It is different to it’s sibling, the minimal viable product (MVP) in that it doesn’t have to be built on. Both share the trait that they should be created at the lowest cost (in both effort and money) possible.

We connected a few no-code tools to help us to deliver the testable version (proof of concept) of the tool. The tools that we used for this case were, Typeform, Docupilot, Google Sheets, Google DataStudio, and Zapier.

Typeform is a powerful no-code form tool. It looks great straight out of the box and is easy to adjust to brand guidelines. It also responds well to different devices and changes the form size to fit their screens. The tool needed to produce a non editable document that outlined the results. To do this, we connected the Typeform results (saved in Google Sheets) to Docupilot to produce a unique PDF of the results each time all steps were completed. Google Data Studio is a pretty powerful data visualisation tool that you can use to create reports from a google sheet. In this case I used it to highlight the key insights we’d decided on. Nice one!

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