Tech stack, no code, 0 budget

Aug 5 (edited) • Tools

What if you're unemployed, don't have money to pay subscription services, don't have programing skills, but want to work anyway?

Learn this free tools through youtube tutorials or the official websites. Make your on projects and promote your skills. All you need is internet connection.

🔗 Website / Landing Page

Carrd.co (Free for 3 sites; no-code; great for personal brands & link-in-bio pages)
Notion + Super.so (or custom domain redirect) → Use Notion to host your whole site
GitHub Pages (for hosting static HTML or Markdown with a domain)
Wordpress Elementor hosted on Infinity Free (no code, but also little AI assistance. Great for creating a freelancing portifolio)
Framer (no code, website builder with great AI elements and a free tier. Noob friendly as it does the whole hosting and deployement in one place. Less versatile than elementor, and also less requested).

💌 Email Newsletter / Forms

EmailOctopus Free (2,500 subscribers free)
ConvertKit Free (Up to 1,000 subs + forms + landing pages)
[Google Forms] or Tally.so (for collecting emails, feedback, surveys)

🛒 Digital Product Delivery

Gumroad Free Plan (Takes a fee per sale, no monthly cost)
Payhip (Another free digital store; allows instant product delivery)
Ko-fi (For donations, subscriptions, and product sales)

🎨 Graphics & Content

Canva Free – Create logos, posts, banners
Photopea – Photoshop in your browser
[Pexels / Unsplash / Pixabay] – Royalty-free images and video

🔌 Automation

IFTTT or Zapier Free Plan – Connect apps without code (limited tasks/month)
Notion Automations with Make (Integromat) – 1,000 free ops/month

📈 Analytics

Plausible.io Self-hosted – Free if you host it
[Cloudflare Analytics] – Privacy-friendly alternative
[Google Analytics] – Classic option (not GDPR/privacy-friendly by default)

You can get experience with personal projects on such tools and starting a freelance or consulting business. Learning how to deliver value on low budget projects and advertizing such a skill can be a great way to shine amongst professionals that get attached to a specific tool that they learned somewhere. Besides that, most professionals need more than code and prefer to hire third parties for each part of the business.

Make projects, build portifolios. No investiment required beyond your time.

DM if you want to know more on this subject.

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