Marius Ciocirlan, Cofounder + CEO, ShareGrid

1. Building No-Code Tools Alongside
your Engineering Team
Marius Ciocirlan
@madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com
@madebymarius

2. Peer-to-peer camera gear rental marketplace
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Marius Ciocirlan
Co-Founder / CEO / Designer
/ Marketer / No-Code developer

3. 19 Teammates
5 Engineers
Huge Dreams
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4. =
Huge dreams Huge JIRA Backlog
“Great idea! Make a ticket and
we’ll get to it…” “ok…”
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5. No-Code Tools
Discovered
Build anything we want
No code at all
Quick iteration and updates
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6. But… the devs had
some questions
who will store our
data? Is it secure?
what happens when
100k people use it?
what happens when
their site goes down?
What about when they
go out of business?
who will deal with
the bugs?
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7. Wow.. great
questions everyone…
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8. Internal CRM Tool
Rental bidding feed
Job Opportunity feed
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8 Months later…

9. Lessons Learned
Building alongside an existing organization
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10. Lessons Learned
Building alongside an existing organization
Limit the scope Share the bugs Earn trust
@madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com

11. Lessons Learned
Building alongside an existing organization
Limit the scope Share the bugs Earn trust
@madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com

12. Getting started
Limit the scope
Safe Complicated Risky
Internal tools Blue Sky IdeasCore app

13. Internal tools
Safe Complicated Risky
Blue Sky IdeasCore app
• Prone for automation
• Forgiving users = Failure is ok
• Ex: Reference checks
• Bureaucracy
• Low margin for error
• Ex: Mason Frontend
• Fast & Low cost
• Can fail fast & iterate
• Ex: Job feed
Getting started
Limit the scope

14. Lessons Learned
Building alongside an existing organization
Limit the scope Share the bugs Earn trust
@madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com

15. Lessons Learned
Building alongside an existing organization
Limit the scope Share the bugs Earn trust

16. Maintaining your no-code apps
Share the bugs
The bidding site is showing
duplicates!
Emails stopped going out!!
Customer information is not
displaying any longer…help!
The information is loading
super slow….
“Everything is great…”

17. Maintaining your no-code apps
Share the bugs
No-code bugs
=
No-code solutions
Everyone can crush bugs
Ex: Slow Dashboard

18. Lessons Learned
Building alongside an existing organization
Limit the scope Share the bugs Earn trust
@madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com

19. Lessons Learned
Building alongside an existing organization
Limit the scope Share the bugs Earn trust
@madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com

20. Make the non-believers, believers.
Earn trust
Make Penicillin
not Vitamins
Maintain, Involve
& Iterate
Showcase &
Evangelize
• Solve big problems
• Ensure people use it everyday
• No-code iterating is easy
• Involve others ideas
• Show don’t tell
• Empower new ideas
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21. Start Building
Alongside any existing organization
Limit the scope Share the bugs Earn trust
@madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com

22. Marius Ciocirlan
Reach out with questions, suggestions or ideas
marius@sharegrid.com @madebymarius