This document discusses how anyone can build things on the internet without coding knowledge by solving problems. It talks about the story of Poppy, a company that aimed to solve daily frictions for working parents through text messaging. The document outlines lessons learned including focusing on problems rather than products and shipping iterations rather than waiting for pixel perfection. It concludes by saying today, we are all builders.

1. Who gets to be the builders?
How everyone can use technology
see a problem + solve a problem.
Avni Patel Thompson
@apatelthompson

2. V1 tech stack
Sign-up
Landing Page
Payment
Feedback
Messaging
Scheduling
Database

4. You don’t need to
know how to code to
build something of
value on the internet.

5. Who gets to be the builders?

8. 1. The Leap to Tech
2. The Story of Poppy
3. Lessons and Tools

9. Solving Daily Frictions

10. Chemistry degree
Brand management
MBA
Consulting
China
Childcare
Full stack dev
“You can only connect the
dots looking backwards”.
- Steve Jobs -

11. Working parents deserve better.

14. SMS

15. “I really can't say clearly enough how
well your business is run. Customer
service is delightful, new and useful
features keep trickling out, and I really
love how simple it is to interact with the
service - texting is so natural. It's just
brilliant, and for all the lame startups
out there, Poppy is simply refreshing.”

16. "I have not failed. I've just
found 10,000 ways that
won't work.”
- Thomas A Edison -

19. 5 Lessons Learned

20. Problems,
not Product

21. Time for more
experiments

22. Pipes, not points

23. Shipped, not
pixel-perfect

24. Access to start

25. List of Tools: https://bit.ly/2X3W8Bf
Landing Page/ General Purpose
Payments
Forms (Signup, Feedback etc)
Communication
SchedulingDatabase
Connections

26. Today,
we are all
builders.

27. Thank you
@apatelthompson