Pory has been around the no-code block for quite a while now. It’s one of the top no-code web app builders if you want to build beautiful apps powered by your data. [If you new to no-code, we recommend you read this in-depth guide to What Is No-Code]
Pory apps can be built in just a few minutes. But, making a decision to build your next no-code startup or web app on Pory might take a lot longer; There are other similar platforms, there are numerous features, benefits claims, yadda yadda yadda.
So, to help you decide faster (and save you time, give you ideas and inspiration), we decided to do a bit of digging around and shortlist a few Pory app examples. And, answer some of your questions like:
- What are some of the best use cases of Pory?
- What kind of web apps are being built on Pory?
- How are other entrepreneurs monetizing their Pory apps?
- How long does it typically take to build apps with Pory?
Now, dive into our cherry-picked list of no-code startups built with Pory.
1. Prodmgmt.World
Prodmgmt, shorthand for product management, is one of the easiest to use collections of top product & market research techniques on the Internet. This web app is a collection of techniques to empower product managers, makers, side-hustlers; Techniques and frameworks to validate and prioritise your product/feature ideas, and map your product challenge to the apt solution. Prodmgmt aims to help makers in their product journey by providing them with research -based, readymade, necessary information and answers. This collection has over 100+ techniques, neatly categorised, tagged, and with intuitive sort and filter features. Some of the categories include data analysis, call to action, competitor research etc. There are 2 subscription plans to access this info product - $5/month or $49/year.
- Founder/s: George Nurijanian
- Official website: https://www.prodmgmt.world/
- Category: Info product
- No-code tools used: Pory, Airtable, Paytable, Gumroad
- Revenue: $223 as of Aug 2021
- Build Time: Research: ongoing. Build time with Pory: a few hours
2. Growpay
Growpay is an online marketplace that helps connect merchants to the world's best payment experiences. The payments landscape is becoming increasingly more fragmented. The last two decades have seen an explosion in new payment services - from digital wallets, mobile payments, open banking, to buy now, pay later and crypto. Whilst it's been great for consumers, it's becoming increasingly more complex to navigate for merchants, and that's where Growpay comes in.
Growpay compiles all the best payments, deals and tools in one place - saving you hours of time and effort in your quest to find the perfect payment solution for your business, and it’s 100% free to use.
The founder, Jamil, is a big believer in supporting the underdogs. This is his small way of giving back to startup founders and the small business community who lack the resources/knowledge to thrive in the digital age.
- Founder/s: Jamil Luketic
- Official website: https://www.growpay.co/
- Category: Info product
- No-code tools used: Pory, Airtable
- Revenue: N/A
- Build Time: 1-2 weeks
3. Startup.Cartooli
Startup.cartooli.com helps entrepreneurs living outside traditional startup hubs (e.g., Silicon Valley, New York, and London) promote their companies, discover business partners, and find early investors. Startup Cartooli helps founding teams launch with little to no money by offering easy access to a community, networking opportunities, recommendations, mentoring, and fundraising support.
The platform also helps investors discover unique deal flow by tapping into often overlooked communities. Many of the companies showcased on the platform have multi-lingual founders with diverse backgrounds. We offer investors the first look at companies before they’re on everyone’s radar.
- Founder/s: Rob Nock
- Official website: https://startup.cartooli.com/
- Category: Info product
- No-code tools used: Pory, Airtable, Carrd, Paytable, Elfsight
- Number of users acquired so far: 650+
- Build time: 2 weeks
4. Canva Keywords
Canva Keywords is a simple web app that provides a curated list of different elements on Canva and keywords to quickly search for them. These high-quality assets and their keywords will help you search better and faster on Canva. Currently, the website has a database of more than 400 elements. These are filtered into major categories such as alphabets, objects, people, abstracts and shapes etc. The list is organised systematically to the ongoing trends. There are already more than 200 keywords. Every month around 30-50 new keywords keep getting added. The elements are categorised for both Canva free and Canva Pro users. Some of these elements can also be colour-customised. Memberships are available at free, pro at $9/month and pro at $24/year.
- Founder/s: Tengku Syamil
- Official website: https://www.canvakeywords.pro/
- Category: Directory
- No-code tools used: Pory+Airtable
5. Infosite
Infosite is an investing app that is designed for new-age investors. This platform is a one-stop that allows the sourcing of deals and initial processes. They have a wide network of founders and makers building a plethora of startups. This whole database is on Airtable and the frontend is on Pory. The platform presents them to investors. In this way, investors can easily find disruptive startups. The whole process is known as Dealflow as a Service (DaaS). Scouts looking for investments have to do a simple sign up. Your startup gets listed for investors to find it. Through this platform, investors can quickly tap into new trends, know about exciting startups, invest during early stages, expand into new markets etc.
- Founder/s: Liam McSherry
- Official website: https://www.infositevc.com/
- Category: DaaS. But Pory is used to build the directory/info-product
- No-code tools used: Pory+Airtable
6. Actors De Barcelona
This is a community that works for actors in Barcelona. ActorsBarcelona is akin to a two-sided marketplace for actors and directors/casting agents. The platform matches the right opportunities with the actors. The entire platform and functionality are built on Pory+other no-code tools; actors' database, frontend, sort & filter, automated emails, etc. The community has over 250+ actors at the time of writing this article.
- Founder/s: Axel
- Official website: https://www.actorsbarcelona.com/
- Category: Community, directory
- No-code tools used: Pory, Airtable
- Number of users acquired so far: 250+
- Build time: 3 hours for version 1.0
Wrapping Up
If you have paid attention to the ‘build times’ of all the Pory app examples in this article, then it must be evident that it’s super fast to build web apps with Pory. Other makers have mostly built info products and directories on this platform. Many are monetising their Pory apps too!
So, if you are sitting on any useful database or lists or information that is of value if neatly organised and displayed, then you must consider Pory to build a web app on top of it and validate if you can monetise it.
You may also consider some of the other cool no-code app builders out there, and select the one that best fits your use case.
Also, check this massive listicle on No Code Startups.
We hope this list of Pory app examples motivated you to start ideating on your next no-code hustle.
Now, time to answer some of your most common questions on Pory apps:
What is Pory?
With Pory, you can build web apps and internal tools for your business within minutes. This no-code platform provides a drag-and-drop interface to build apps on top of your Airtable databases. They also have ready-to-deploy web app templates for some of the most common use cases. Besides Airtable as the CMS, Pory integrates seamlessly with some a bunch of other no-code tools as well. 10,000+ creators, founders & operators already building on Pory.
What can I build with Pory?
Pory is suitable for building internal tools, marketplaces, community platforms, volunteers portal, job boards, customer portals, partner platforms, lists etc. Discover more Pory app examples here.
What I can't build with Pory?
Mobile applications, highly customised design elements/features, complex CMS websites, low-code development.
Can my Pory App scale?
Pory uses Airtable as its database or a CMS. This makes Pory apps somewhat scalable. There are limitations in terms of complexity, but no so much when is comes to linear scalability of the web apps.
What other tools/services can Pory connect and integrate with?
Google Analytics, Buy me a coffee, Crisp chat, Drift Chat, Pexel, Unsplash. They are also in the process of embedding Substack and Mailchimp.
Where can I learn "how to build apps on Pory"?
Pory is very simple to use. If you can create presentations on MS Powerpoint or know your way around Google Workspace then, probably, you won't need any tutorials to get started with Pory. That said, Pory's official help center and their video tutorials on YouTube are the best places to learn to build Pory apps.
How long will it take me to learn Pory?
Less than one hour!
