Creator Check founder Lotanna Ezeike confirms to Andrew Gazdecki that his acquired micro-SaaS startups TripVisa and Visabot were built purely with no-code tools.
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“Yeah, yeah, literally, yeah. So Zapier was my best friend, for sure.”
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Ezeike: TripVisa took approximately three weeks to a month to build
“So with the rise of no code, probably a month max, really, maybe like three weeks. I started building it in public around, let's say, first week of August, and it launched in September.”
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