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Upsolver, a startup offering a no-code tool that enables analytics on cloud data lakes whose customers include Wix, AppsFlyer, and more, raised $25M and launched a free community edition of its product.
More:
- With the new free community edition, no-coders can use Upsolver's data lake engineering platform in either the startup's sandbox or your own AWS or Azure accounts. Users can quickly run and stream data flows through the product, and instantly access transformed data through popular query engines, data warehouses, or databases.
- The company will use the money to recruit more engineers and scale its go-to-market efforts. Scale Venture Partners led the round.
More about the Upsolver Product:
- Upsolver aims to "bridge the gap between raw cloud data and analytics-ready data," its CEO Ori Rafael says, offering companies software designed to prime data lakes for analytics.
- Its goal ultimately is to replace code-heavy approaches with Upsolver's compute layer, which lay between a customer's cloud storage and their apps, engines, and tools.
- The startup offers companies a visual structured query language (SQL) interface and data optimization, tuning, and orchestration automation. Companies can perform analytics with several query engines and data systems.
- "Upsolver is often used to output prepared data to [cloud data warehouses, search engines, and other purpose-built data stores], making data available to standalone query engines," explains Rafael. "Data engineers use Upsolver’s visual user interface to build any data transformations and preparation tasks. This generates SQL that the data engineer can also directly edit to fine-tune the processing."
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Gumroad creators will receive 100% of their sales on Wednesday, April 7 – "Gumroad Day" – in honor of Gumroad's 10th birthday. Normally, Gumroad takes about 3.5-5% in fees on all sales, but creators will not have to pay this or other deductions – such as PayPal and credit card fees – on that day.
Other recent Gumroad updates:
- Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia announced his upcoming book, "The Minimalist Entrepreneur," is available for pre-order. In the book, Lavingia dives into the Gumroad story, how to "develop and release products without failing fast or often" and "how to get to profitability and stay there."
- Creators can now target followers who are not yet their customers.
- Users are now able to see the products that are affiliates.
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A preview of the Notion Link Manager template.
Notion Link Manager, a free new template you can use to organize your links within Notion, launched over the weekend to success, ranking as Product Hunt's #3 Product of the Day.
More:
- The template makes it easy to organize and search for different types of links. You can work with it manually, or use it in combination with Notion's web clipper.
- With the tool, you can specifically search your links from a database, organize your links by tags, sort by categories, save to folders, and more.
More Useful Trending Notion Tools / Resources:
- Super and Notion Dog are no-code tools that transform your Notion pages into websites within minutes.
- Notion Planners is a free template that contains a daily planner, weekly planner, and monthly planner, while the Notion Bullet Journal Template makes it easy to use Notion as a bullet journal with a Future Log, Tasks section, and more.
- Growth Hacking Framework is a free template you can use to organize all of your growth marketing initiatives and experiments.
- Notion Focus shows you only the tasks you need to focus on so you don't get distracted.
- VSCode Notion makes it possible to browse Notion pages inside of the Visual Studio Code development editor.
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📅 No-Code Calendar
This Week:
- APRIL 5-APRIL 9: Gumroad's Creator School featuring live classes on Clubhouse from experts such as the Head of Community at Indie Hackers about growing community and more. Join here.
- APRIL 7: Airtable's Aron Kor hosts a stream exploring what's new in Airtable.
- APRIL 7: 100 Days of NoCode workshop with the CEO of Softr who will be introducing no-coders to the platform. Register to join here.
- APRIL 7: Makerpad's weekly co-working build club for no-coders. Every Wednesday, the Makerpad team and its community members will support each other to build quickly by learning and creating together during the 90-minute sessions. While free to join, you must register for a Makerpad membership here first.
- APRIL 8: Pretoria's Webflow community event, "Webflow - The Future of Web Design."
- APRIL 8: Seattle's Webflow community event, "Web Design From Scratch: The Development"
- APRIL 8: Munich's Webflow community event, "Designer's Hacks for Webpages Vol.2"
Coming Soon:
- APRIL 14: Bubble's Immerse Demo Day. Immerse is a free no-code pre-accelerator for BIPOC founders to transform business ideas into MVPs. Register here.
- APRIL 14: The CEO of Webflow and other leaders on the team will be hosting the company's first live community update. Register here.
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The Webflow community will be holding several events mostly online in April, Webflow announced. These include community events from chapters all over the world – ranging from Seattle to Melbourne – as well as the company's community update open to all.
Events:
Webflow's Company Events:
- April 14: Webflow community update where the CEO and others will cover future features in the work, ask for input, and take questions.
Upcoming Webflow Chapter Events:
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Last Week's No-Code Tool / Product Updates:
WordPress:
- The WordPress core team will drop support for Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) in an upcoming release after a majority of participants agreed to the proposal put forward earlier this month. The debate is now centered around whether support for IE 11 should end in 5.8 or 5.9.
Makerpad:
- No-code education service Makerpad launched a $900 no-code fundamentals course. The deadline to apply is April 12, with the course officially starting April 26. Apply here.
- Makerpad is hiring no-code experts and educators for video content creator and blogger roles.
Unsplash:
- Getty Images is buying Unsplash, but Unsplash reassures the community its images will continue to be available for free.
Adalo:
- Adalo updated its App Bar component with five new changes, including the ability to make your App Bar translucent or add a background image, and more.
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- Keep these things in mind to ensure reliability and professionalism when connecting to a large, remote audience.*
- No-code machine learning platform Vidora launched the Uplift Modeling feature within its Cortex product, Cortex, making it possible for marketing teams to quickly integrate Uplift Models for a variety of use cases.
- WordPress reflects on product updates from the past month, which included the launch of WordPress 5.7 and new Gutenberg versions.
- Carrd added an icon element for Clubhouse, ServiceNow, Zomato, Wavy.fm, Revue, Fandom, and more.
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Jonathan Harris is a writer for Inside.com. Previously, he wrote for The Huffington Post, TakePart.com, and the YouTube channel What’s Trending.
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