From corporate tourism to no-code product creator

Sometimes, all it takes to break out of your corporate job is to learn a new skill. Discover Katt's story, and her experience of how picking up a new skill changed everything.

Sometimes, all it takes to break out of your corporate job is to learn a new skill. And Katt Risen did exactly that! Read on to discover Katt's story, and her experience of how picking up a new skill changed everything. 

From an early age, Katt has always been a creative person. Eventually, that’s how she landed a marketing role at a big European tourism corporate. But at the same time, she also craved for more autonomy and more freedom, to work on her own things and travel around herself. 

This feeling became stronger from the moment Katt started following Product Hunt, a popular website where the latest digital products are launched. Browsing through the newest updates everyday and following the makers of these products on Twitter, reinforced Katt’s dream of building her own ideas one day. 

At her work her colleagues soon gave her the unofficial title of “Head of Tools”, because Katt often shared useful products with them that she had discovered on this platform, which made their work a lot easier and saved them a lot of time. She was clearly in her element with this, and would love to launch a product of her own someday on Product Hunt. There was one problem though .. she can’t code!

No-Code

Around 2021 Katt noticed that more and more of the makers she followed on Twitter started using so called No-Code tools: online tools you can use to build web or mobile apps, without writing any code. Suddenly Katt’s dream came a lot closer. If this was true, she could literally build anything she had in mind without hiring expensive developers. She wanted to know all about this! 

That’s why she joined the No-Code x AI Bootcamp in February 2022. The premise of learning how to build your own ideas in 30 days without writing any code, was just what she was looking for to pursue the freedom and autonomy she wanted. She enjoyed every minute, and completed the course successfully by building a chatbot to help other beginners choose the right tools to use for their projects. A few weeks later her dream came true, with a launch of her chatbot on Product Hunt! 

Taking the leap

In everything it felt to Katt that the bootcamp set her on the right track for her career, to leave her corporate job and start working on her own things and on her own terms. To figure out whether this was feasible she decided to take up her parental leave to spend extra time with the kids and explore this new career path.

Everything started to move quickly in the new direction when she received an acquisition offer for the chatbot she built during the bootcamp. Not only did she successfully sell her product, her announcement about this got a lot of traction too. Many wanted to know about her experience with the acquisition, and she noticed this happened with other acquisitions too. That’s how she came up with the idea to write a newsletter about these stories, starting with her own acquisition. 

Right from the beginning, Katt’s newsletter (No-Code Exits) was a big hit in the No-Code space. Not only did she gain a lot of followers and sponsorships from this, most importantly she really enjoyed working on something of her own. 

On the back of this she created several other digital products, from guides to an online community. In addition to this, she does a couple of freelance gigs once in a while. By the end of the parental leave it was totally clear for Katt that this was what she wanted to do. So she decided to leave her corporate job, and choose to work on her own things. 

And the best of it all for Katt is that she can work on this whenever she wants. For example when she went on a roadtrip to the USA with her family for two months and scheduled her newsletter in advance.

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The No-Code x AI Bootcamp ignited for Katt what she dreamed about for a long time. Being able to build your own ideas with No-Code and AI tools unlocks a lot of new opportunities. Whether you want to become an entrepreneur like Katt, or fancy a role in product, marketing or operations, the skills you’ll learn during this program go a long way.

If you're interested in finding out more about the capabilities of No-Code x AI, and how doing a No-Code x AI Bootcamp could open up your options, discover more here >>

Whether you want to build a prototype to test a new idea or an MVP to validate demand, with No-Code and AI you can do this all by yourself. No-Code x AI Bootcamp is a hands-on 30 day course, where you can learn how to build your own ideas and automate your own work, without writing any code. Applications for the next cohort beginning 6th November are now open. Enrol here >>

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