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10 (More) Profitable Business Ideas You Can Build Without Code

No-code tools are democratizing entrepreneurship. Even if you don't know how to code, here's 10 business ideas you can start building today.

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June 17, 2024

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Want to start a business? Thanks to modern no-code tools, coding is now optional.

No-code tools are democratizing entreprenusrhsip. Even if you don't know how to code, here's 10 business ideas you can start building today.

If you missed our first article, here's 11 more business ideas you can build without code.

1. Subscription Coffee Company

💡 The idea
  • Build a subscription e-commerce coffee company
⚙️ How to build it without code
  • Use a Shopify App to turn your Shopify store into a subscription box store.
🧲 How to get and retain users
  • Content marketing for SEO to drive search traffic for related search terms.
  • Reach out to businesses to offer as a perk to employees
  • Collect emails of visitors and send out a weekly newsletter with the new coffee being sent out that week and stories from the roaster.
💰 How to monetize
  • Sell products
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?

2. An education platform

💡 The idea
  • A custom education platform for any niche (coding, no-coding, gardening, etc).
🧲 How to get and retain users
  • Content marketing
  • Build a Twitter audience among your niche
⚙️ How to build it without code
💰 How to monetize
  • Charge a one-time fee or a subscription for access to content
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?
  • No Code MBA (this site!)
  • SO many other great content creators

3. Productize Sales Outreach

💡 The idea
  • Do cold outreach for companies to help them get warm sales leads
🧲 How to get and retain users
  • Reach out to companies offering your services with cold emails
⚙️ How to build it without code
💰 How to monetize
  • Charge per warm lead
  • Charge a monthly fee for a set number of outreaches
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?

4. Build Helpdesk Software for Businesses

💡 The idea
  • Build a SaaS platform that allows businesses to easily create and host a helpdesk/knowledgebase for customers
🧲 How to get and retain users
  • Cold email sales (see Apollo.io from above)
  • Content marketing - since you're selling to businesses, write content about managing customer service
⚙️ How to build it without code
💰 How to monetize
  • Charge a monthly fee to use the software
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?
  • Zendesk is an example of a large company in this space

5. Build a paid community

💡 The idea
  • Create a paid community around a niche
🧲 How to get and retain users
  • Post in related online communities.
  • Offer a free and paid version
  • Offer free webinars to attract users
  • Build connections between your members
⚙️ How to build it without code
💰 How to monetize
  • Charge for premium access to the community
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?

6. SaaS tool review site

💡 The idea
  • Create a website that curates reviews of SaaS products to help businesses make their buying decision, similar to Capterra or G2
🧲 How to get and retain users
  • Post in related online communities.
  • Content marketing for SEO to drive organic traffic for related search terms.
  • Collect emails on your site to build your newsletter.
  • Guest-blog on related websites.
⚙️ How to build it without code
💰 How to monetize
  • Use affiliate links to products on the site
  • Charge for advertisement once you have a large userbase.
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?
  • Large sites like Capterra or G2

7. Trademark attorney on-demand

💡 The idea
  • Create a productized service that allows entrepreneurs to easily hire a lawyer to get a trademark for their business
🧲 How to get and retain users
  • Facebook ads
  • Post in related online communities
  • Collect emails on your site by offer a discount code
⚙️ How to build it without code
💰 How to monetize
  • Find lawyers to agree to work on a fixed price if you bring them clients who want a trademark done
  • Charge a premium to consumers and earn a profit on the difference
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?
  • Not 100% sure, but I think it's a good idea 😀

8. Virtual Coaching Marketplace

💡 The idea
  • Create a marketplace for people to find and hire coaches in a specific area of life (nutrition, professional coaching, etc)
🧲 How to get and retain users
  • On the coaching side of the marketplace, use cold outreach to bring them on to the platform
  • On the user side, use Twitter, content marketing, and Google Adwords to target people in your specific niche that would be interested in coaching
  • Build a blog in your niche to become a thought leader and collect emails of people interested in your coaching topic
⚙️ How to build it without code
💰 How to monetize
  • Option 1: Take a small fee on each transaction
  • Option 2: Take a one-time fee for making the first connection between coach and client
  • Option 3: Charge a monthly fee for coaches to be listed on the marketplace
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?

9. Fitness membership app

💡 The idea
  • Create a fitness membership in a specific niche (dancing, boxing, etc). Members pay a membership for access to videos and audio content.
🧲 How to get and retain users
  • Post in related online communities
  • Offer a free trial
  • Post free content on Youtube
⚙️ How to build it without code
💰 How to monetize
  • Charge a monthly fee
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?

10. Sell a restaurant reservation app to restaurants

💡 The idea
  • Sell a simple reservation system to restaurants to help them bring their business online.
🧲 How to get and retain users
  • Send cold emails to restaurants.
  • Walk into restaurants in your area to pitch them on the service
  • Get referrals from existing clients.
  • Write your own content to increase search traffic.
⚙️ How to build it without code
💰 How to monetize
  • Charge a monthly fee for access to the reservation system
🤔 Who’s doing it profitably?
  • Lots of large businesses offer this service, but you can charge less if you're looking to build a smaller, profitable business.

Looking for more business ideas? 

Check out our first business idea article: 11 business ideas you can build without code.

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