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Prototype ideas fast and let Carson do changes himself. Entirely focus on business results rather than technical details. [Perfection is the enemy](https://jorgeferreiro.com/blog/perfection-is-the-enemy-of-entrepreneurs-and-makers) as I wrote in another post\n\nNo-code comes to mind as an excellent way to accomplish those goals. But what is no-code exactly? No-code is a bunch of tools that let you build any website or mobile applications without writing code (or minimizing the development efforts). Sounds sexy, right!? It’s!\n\nLet me share a couple of quick lessons learned as well as the tools we were using!\n\n## Using Airtable as a CMS 😮\n\n![Airtable is the best no-code headless CMS and a great spreadsheet solution](https://images.ctfassets.net/7qz209myhhpn/1XJBhLAQRffeQnZVBCGHIK/fbed4665368f775447758dd816bd88d5/example.png)\n\nIn one of the projects, we wanted to set up profile pages for music artists. In those pages, we needed to include information such as biography, social networks, and artist’s prices so they could charge money for their services with Stripe.\n\nAs you can tell, I could have built every single page on my own. The downside of using that approach would be that Carson needed me any time he wanted to onboard and set up a new page for any of our artists.\n\nInstead, I decided to set up a quick Airtable project. **Airtable is like a Spreadsheet with steroids**. They even auto-generate an API that you can directly consume from your application. Carson was able to generate new artists profiles in a matter of seconds.\n\nThanks to this decision, I didn’t invest any time to develop an API, neither to create an interface so Carson could add data. Instead, everything was already done for us. This reduced drastically the time to onboard new artists. In a few seconds, Carson was able to onboard any new artists, and I didn’t need to write any line of code.\n\n> Using Airtable with and their auto-generated API reduced drastically the time to develop and ship new features\n\n## Stripe Checkout to the rescue\n\n![stripe checkout is the best no-code checkout payment system](https://images.ctfassets.net/7qz209myhhpn/5bvQNJ5xUj4cvKroqyabjB/5ecd1d20332780c2ea748d7559a8c122/stripe_checkout_is_the_best_no-code_checkout_payment_system.png)\n\nAt my previous company, [Eventbrite](https://jorgeferreiro.com/blog/jorge-Ferreiro-leaves-Eventbrite), we built our custom Stripe checkout for a new greenfield project. While it was super cool to learn how to build a whole UI integrated with Stripe API, I learned the hard way how complex it is to build production-ready checkout flow with good conversion rate and error-free..\n\nI knew that for weekend projects, I didn’t want to spend any time on setting up something custom that wouldn’t benefit our target users. So I wanted to spend as little time as possible to build a checkout flow.\n\nThanks to Stripe Checkout, I was able to integrate a nice checkout flow in a matter of hours. When I take this kind of decisions I always think about the phrase “Work Smarter, Not Harder”\n\n> Building a payment flow is a pain in the ass. Stripe checkout helps you integrate a checkout in your app fast as f\\*\\*k\n\n## Gluing all together and final thoughts\n\nLet’s do a quick recap:\n\n-   No code solutions are the best way to iterate and prototype fast.\n-   Build products that are easy to edit by you at any given time or by a non-technical folks\n-   Remove any blockers with the development team, this saves time, money, and conflicts.\n\nI hope you find this useful! Have you gone through something similar? Send me a [tweet](https://jorgeferreiro.com/twitter)!\n\n* * *\n\nThanks for reading ❤ Please say Hello On [Twitter](https://jorgeferreiro.com/twitter) | [TikTok](https://jorgeferreiro.com/tiktok) | [Linkedin](https://jorgeferreiro.com/linkedin) Subscribe to my Newsletter [HERE](https://jorgeferreiro.com/newsletter)","storage":{"htmlKey":"stealpage/html/jorgeferreiro.com/pg_ks3ggnjpe-dq/run_lkxl7alqdl-x.html.gz","markdownKey":"stealpage/md/jorgeferreiro.com/pg_ks3ggnjpe-dq/run_lkxl7alqdl-x.md.gz"},"facets":null,"assets":[{"kind":"image","src_url":"https://jorgeferreiro.com/jorge-ferreiro-og-image.png","r2_key":null,"alt":null,"caption":null,"width":null,"height":null,"is_hero":true,"zone":"main"},{"kind":"image","src_url":"https://jorgeferreiro.com/images/redesign/logo_jf.png","r2_key":null,"alt":"Jorge 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