WTF NO CODE DROP #2

WTF NO CODE DROP #1 showed you what you can pull off when you capture the right information from your users. Once you have everything you need in something like an Airtable base so that you have a single source of truth to work with, you can start to do a whole lot.

If you’re capturing or deriving data points like IDs or other unique identifiers, you can start to use those sort of things to augment the data you have. Put differently, if you set things up right you don’t have to ask your users for everything.

One solid example comes to mind – email addresses.

Every email address immediately offers you two crucial pieces of information:

1. Email addresses can be a unique identifier.
   You’re not going to want to build a large-scale, complex system that relies solely on the uniqueness of email addresses. One simple reason is that your users will eventually want to update their email address. One less simple reason is that wildcard emails can make for a confusing experience. Ask me more more about this – a friend of mind thought he lucked out by getting an @gmail.com account for a common(ish) name. Problem is, it’s become a wildcard email that lands him invitations to PTA meetings and random birthday parties.
   

2. Email address domains tell you a lot about who you’re dealing with.
   You might already know this, but every email address has a price. The more common the domain – your @gmail.com or your @yahoo.ca are pretty unremarkable and not that valuable to newsletter operators or advertisers, for example. On the other hand, your Ivy League .edu or your @openai.com email addresses are sending some pretty valuable signals.

With this in mind, here’s a reliable way to create images at scale as well as a cool trick I’ve been adding to my projects ever since I used it in my No Code Referral App.

Let’s figure out how to instantly create images based on the data you’ve collected. This is perfect for social media content or marketing events with speakers, for instance. While pulling together extra data based on email addresses isn’t exactly a party trick, there’s more to be done to have a system that creates consistent images from a template.

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