Zapier, one of the top providers of application integration tools has acquired Makerpad, a major no-code learning community. The purchase gives Zapier 400 employees and an annual revenue of over $100 million dollars according to CEO Wade Foster. However, Foster states that Makerpad will continue to operate largely independently, offering advice to no-code developers including ways that Zapier can help them expand their apps by connecting to the web applications they use everyday.
In case you're not familiar with Zapier, it provides tools to allow you to link together the different web applications you use so you can easily pass data between them. For example, you can integrate apps like Gmail, Slack, Mailchimp, and others in order to automate repetitive tasks you need to carry out, without having to code an interface yourself or hire developers to build the interface.
Makerpad, rather than being an app development platform, is similar to a classroom where you can use various tutorials, templates and tools to learn what can be built without code and how you can do it. The peer community there also provides suggestions and support to help you figure out how to build your project without code.
Makerpad's large, active community of peer developers may be a key part of the acquisition. It gives Zapier a large group of experienced developers providing advice to no-code users and, hopefully, informing those users about Zapier's integration projects and how they can work in tandem with no-code apps.
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