Tips for climate tech founders on building software & hardware products quickly

Thoughts on low-code, now-code in software-heavy and even hardware-heavy climate tech startups

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Tips for climate tech founders on building software & hardware products quickly

If you are starting a climate tech company 🌍, consider building your v1 product's software stack in a low/no-code platform such as Airtable or Softr 💻. You can iterate more quickly this way. You can always rewrite your product in a traditional full-code manner once you achieve product-market fit.

Example 1: Kopperfield is a company that streamlines electric vehicle charger installations ⚡🚗. When Mark Wong started his company in 2021, he and his co-founders built the backend data layer completely in Airtable until Kopperfield reached product-market fit.

Example 2: I started ClimateTechList last fall originally as a side project built in Airtable, Softr, and Webflow.

As you can see by the screenshot below, the low-code version didn't look the best, but it was good enough until the site was redesigned *after* product-market fit, specifically- I got user feedback that people found the site useful (and found jobs through it)

👉 Read more about this in this ClimateTechList blog post Tips for climate tech founders on building software & hardware products quickly