We asked Sets founder, Oliver Littlejohn, about building an add-on for Slack where members can access a community portal. Oliver has eight years of experience building the community at CodeBase, a tech cluster in Scotland. He chose Bubble because the no-code platform enabled him to build a fully functioning web app without writing a line of code. Sets is an add on for Slack that turns it into a community. It adds a community portal that members access via their Slack credentials, where they can easily find people with similar interests, get regular updates about important events, and help co-curate a community wiki. The app helps community managers cut themselves out of the equation - both by allowing members to connect serendipitously, and automating some of the community admin like sending out weekly roundups. For a community member, they'll immediately be greeted with upcoming events for the community, a list of people involved, and a searchable database of the most useful content - all organised by relevant tags. Updates for all of these things are fed directly into the Slack workspace, so once a user is set up they can see important things instantly in Slack. Community members will be able to see upcoming events. Oliver discovered no-code tools like Bubble via nocode.tech and thought it would be an opportunity to build an MVP. He chose Bubble because of its freedom to make web apps do what he wants, rather than relying on templates or pre-built blocks. The plugin ecosystem is huge as well - so much opportunity. Getting his first few communities signed up and using it, and working with their feedback to make it better are some of the milestones achieved so far. Oliver's next steps include exploring how to support community managers more - better analytics, better prompts to engage, that kind of thing. Once live, he plans to introduce features on a public roadmap. Sets is now in Beta and aims to be a solution for community managers to help them build and manage their communities effectively.