Makerpad
No-code education platform and community that Zapier acquired in 2021, its first acquisition. Around 10,000 members at the time.
- Brand
- Zapier
- Status
- On hiatus
- Launched
- 2019
- Acquired
- Acquired from
- Ben Tossell
- Founder
- Ben Tossell
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Makerpad was Zapier's first acquisition, and a test of whether buying an education community shortens the path to product adoption. Ben Tossell relaunched the project as Makerpad in February 2019 to teach people to build software with no-code tools. When Zapier bought it on 9 March 2021 for an undisclosed sum, Tossell has said it had more than 10,000 members and about $400,000 in annual recurring revenue, and its members already ranked Zapier and Airtable as their most-used tools.
Zapier ran Makerpad as a standalone business at first, then folded its tutorials into its own site. Makerpad now lives at makerpad.zapier.com rather than as an independent property, which is why this entry is marked on hiatus. Tossell left to build Ben's Bites, an AI newsletter and fund.
Sources: Zapier, PR Newswire, They Got Acquired
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