No code + AI is so powerful: this is how I have co-built 3 startups based on AI with no code

Hello everyone,

my name is Domenico, and I’m not a developer. If I would define my “category”, I’d say I’m an entrepreneur and a business analyst in my full-time job, with the aim of becoming a full-time entrepreneur. That is my story.

The beginning

I have a bachelor's degree in economics and management, and now I’m studying international finance for my second degree. I have always been passionate about the startup world.

After my graduation, I tried to reach good results by founding 2 startups, but I failed. Today I can say these failures taught me how to manage people, products, and things during the first stage of a startup.

I have done a few jobs before entering as a Business Analyst for a Mexican Fintech here in Italy. I have discovered the no-code world 3 years ago, thanks to my friend Lorenzo (who founded the first Italian No-Code Company).

It was not a “famous” world, especially in Italy. One thing struck me a lot: the ability to bring a product to market in no time, and at almost no cost.

I was not involved in amazing projects at that time, so I didn’t care. But something changed when I started to use my Twitter Account at the end of 2021.

I discovered a challenge, the first edition: https://twitter.com/BuildSell30

And I met Tanveer, that was my partner for our adventure in 2022. Thanks to the Build&Sell Challenge I went inside the no-code world, discovering an amazing market.

The first 2 products

For participating in this challenge we needed to build and sell in a very fast way. The first part is very important: the building phase! You don’t need to waste a lot of time on it — check the last part of this article for all the lessons I learned.

For building the product in a quick way, you needed to use no code. It was not requested, but if you want to build the first version of a product in 1 week, you MUST use it.

We decided to build the first product based on creating an automatic Pitch Deck starting from info like the Startup name, market, team, problem, and solution. We built and shipped the website in 1 week (we were at the beginning of Jan).

This is the website -> https://pitch2point0.com/

We reached more than 100 users in a few weeks, having 3 paid users. To be honest, it was not a lot in terms of revenue, but this was just our first project together, so it was fine for us.

We never did ads. We spent $0 on marketing. All our traffic, also for the second startup, was organic.

We built and sold this first micro-startup in 2 months. We closed our deal at the end of Feb.

After the sale of our first product, we decided to go on with the second one. It wasn’t planned, but we had gotten along well together. So we decided to focus on something else.

The second product we built has received good success: onetap.ai (Now https://lumelixr.ai/)

It was an AI product (GPT-3) focused on translating text requests into Excel Formulas.

For this product, we reached more than 500 users, with a total income of around $5k in 2 months (from Apr to May).
We closed the deal at the end of June.

NOW

At the end of Aug, I launched Omega Studio, a small startup studio based on the same vision of the previous adventures. The first product we launched is AI Alfred. What is it?

It’s an AI tool that can summarize web articles using the web URL only. You just need to copy and paste the URL, and you’ll get the summary in seconds -> https://www.theaialfred.com/

We have 2 AI models:

• Basic Model: Basic AI summary. This model will give you key sentences about the article you want to summarize
• Advanced Model: This is the most advanced model we have. This model will give you a “human-like” summary for better results

How does Alfred work in 3 steps:
You need to copy and paste the web article URL into our URL section or free text input (you can copy and paste whatever you want)

You need to choose between the 2 processing levels (point 1)
Let’s go, Alfred! You just need to summarize it.

You can always save your summaries.

AI World

Tons of new startups are raising this year thanks to 2 markets:

• No Code Market, which is giving the possibility to everyone for building new stuff in weeks than in months, with basically no dev competencies
• GPT-3 based on the Open AI platform

The AI ​​market will grow relentlessly, and you still have time to find your own startup in this sector.