# Hello, I'm Marcus, a product manager currently living in Lisbon

**URL:** https://community.weweb.io/t/hello-im-marcus-a-product-manager-currently-living-in-lisbon/2760
**Category:** Introduce Yourself
**Created:** [May 20, 2023, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/hello-im-marcus-a-product-manager-currently-living-in-lisbon/2760 "2023-05-20T14:54:23Z")
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### Author: ![MarcusLP](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/marcuslp/32/2982_2.png) [@MarcusLP](https://community.weweb.io/u/MarcusLP)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2023, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/hello-im-marcus-a-product-manager-currently-living-in-lisbon/2760/1 "2023-05-20T14:54:23Z")

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Hello,

I’m new here—drawn to join the community as my gut feeling and mind are telling me decoupled stacks, and specifically WeWeb and Xano, have a bright future ahead. I look forward to being part of this community, and adding any input where I can.

I’m a product manager (that previously ran a predominantly low-code / bootstrapped focused agency for 3 years and someone who has tried and failed to get market penetration at launching a B2B SaaS product, engaging that it was), aiming to up my working knowledge in current no-code and low-code platforms.

I’m about to start building an app in Bubble, primarily for learning purposes. However, I’m now considering building out the same app in WeWeb/Xano. Regarding the latter, I think I would want or need to work with a developer skilled in WeWeb and Xano, in large part, not least for expediency.

The app in question is a to-do list (yep, another one!), designed to incorporate logic, workflows, and a dashboard that, from a learning aspect, should be helpful to me. It has some differentiators from other to-do apps around deep work focus and health incentives through gamification. I would provide the full designs in Figma (with auto-layout).

Could someone recommend one or more affordable but skilled developers from the forum (or alternatively, if there is a particular freelance portal with WeWeb developers, point me in the right direction) so that I can have an initial consultation call about this to understand complexity and indicative build and maintenance costs before I consider taking the idea further?

Happy to pay $2 per minute or something similar for the call. I did reach out to someone on Fiverr, but their communication skills didn’t fill me with confidence.

Cheers,  
Marcus

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### Author: ![MatthewS](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/matthews/32/3582_2.png) [@MatthewS](https://community.weweb.io/u/MatthewS)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2023, 5:11am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/hello-im-marcus-a-product-manager-currently-living-in-lisbon/2760/2 "2023-05-21T05:11:21Z")

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Hi Marcus,

There seems to be a trend in product managers 😅.

I am also a PM who has gone down the no-code rabbit hole after working in early startups and seeing how valuable no-code can be.

I’ve used Bubble for multiple personal and client projects, and have recently started using WeWeb/Xano after seeing how much easier it is to build within for functional modern use cases.

Happy to hop on a call and discuss your use case.

If you haven’t yet seen it, there is an excellent video on Youtube that explains how a very basic to-do app can be built using WeWeb and Xano: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxvePxYaWkI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxvePxYaWkI).

Regards,  
Matthew

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### Author: ![MarcusLP](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/marcuslp/32/2982_2.png) [@MarcusLP](https://community.weweb.io/u/MarcusLP)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2023, 9:25am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/hello-im-marcus-a-product-manager-currently-living-in-lisbon/2760/3 "2023-05-21T09:25:22Z")

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Hi Matthew,

It would be really helpful to have to have a chat with you, thank you.

I’ll check out the video and I’ll ping you early to midweek next week to arrange a call, as I should have the designs/prototype and basic logic done by then. Hope that works.

Thanks!

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### Author: ![MatthewS](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/matthews/32/3582_2.png) [@MatthewS](https://community.weweb.io/u/MatthewS)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2023, 1:37am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/hello-im-marcus-a-product-manager-currently-living-in-lisbon/2760/4 "2023-05-22T01:37:27Z")

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Sounds good - my email is [matthew@launchleanly.com](mailto:matthew@launchleanly.com)

Feel free to get in touch when you’re ready.

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### Author: ![MarcusLP](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/marcuslp/32/2982_2.png) [@MarcusLP](https://community.weweb.io/u/MarcusLP)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2023, 6:20am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/hello-im-marcus-a-product-manager-currently-living-in-lisbon/2760/5 "2023-05-22T06:20:59Z")

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Thank you very much. I think this call will be really helpful to me.

Will be in touch soon.

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### Author: ![Quentin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/quentin/32/6_2.png) [@Quentin](https://community.weweb.io/u/Quentin)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2023, 9:02am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/hello-im-marcus-a-product-manager-currently-living-in-lisbon/2760/6 "2023-05-22T09:02:04Z")

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Hey @MarcusLP 👋

Really cool to see you here!

As a former PM (and WeWeb employee 😆 ), I obviously 100% agree with what you said. For me, even before working for WeWeb, was the decoupled stack the way to go.

Hope you’ll find the help you need here 😉

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### Author: ![twinsticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@twinsticks](https://community.weweb.io/u/twinsticks)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2023, 6:39am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/hello-im-marcus-a-product-manager-currently-living-in-lisbon/2760/7 "2023-05-23T06:39:14Z")

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Welcome! Director of Product here.  
I have found nocode tools have helped me get to aha! moments a lot faster and also to ‘NOPE’ dont spend time on that idea! lol

I would recommend the weWeb academy - it is worth a watch, even if you are getting others to build for you. Understanding CRUD in weWeb, variables etc… super useful.

All the best and see you around here

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### Author: ![MarcusLP](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/marcuslp/32/2982_2.png) [@MarcusLP](https://community.weweb.io/u/MarcusLP)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2023, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/hello-im-marcus-a-product-manager-currently-living-in-lisbon/2760/8 "2023-05-23T12:01:24Z")

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Thank you both - excited to be here.

I think Matthew will help me get a good understanding of the landscape and I’m also going to review the academy tutorials (recently I have been spending time understanding common principles and processes inc. CRUD so hopefully it won’t blow my mind :)). In fact, I’m almost certain I’m here to stay.

Cheers

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### Author: ![MarcusLP](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/marcuslp/32/2982_2.png) [@MarcusLP](https://community.weweb.io/u/MarcusLP)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2023, 9:06am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/hello-im-marcus-a-product-manager-currently-living-in-lisbon/2760/9 "2023-05-26T09:06:32Z")

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Thank you for the chat @MatthewS. Super helpful. Feel more aligned in my direction.
