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Vol. 1, No. 43

There are too many tools and not enough trusted filters.

Every week, Product Hunt surfaces forty new no-code tools. Indie hackers post "I built this in a weekend" threads. Newsletter aggregators fire off roundups of roundups. By Thursday you've bookmarked seventeen tabs you'll never open again, and you still don't know whether Glide is better than Softr for your specific use case.

The problem isn't access to information. It's that nobody is doing the actual work — building the thing, hitting the limits, writing the honest breakdown. Most coverage is surface-level. Most reviews are sponsored. Most "workflow guides" were written by someone who has never shipped a product.

Dispatch exists because the no-code ecosystem deserves the same rigorous editorial treatment that great tech journalism gives to code.

One issue. Every Wednesday. Each edition reviews one tool in depth — real limits, real workarounds, real verdict. It diagrams one workflow — the exact Zapier chain, the Airtable schema, the Make scenario. It surfaces one automation recipe you can copy in under an hour.

No sponsorship without disclosure. No affiliate link without a note. No tool gets a glowing review because they sent a gift card. The editorial standard is simple: would I actually build with this?

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The Archive

43 Issues.
All the Work.

New issue every Wednesday
#043Feb 19
Bubble

Bubble's New Responsive Engine: What Actually Changed

"The drag-and-drop is finally as fast as the marketing said it was."

Deep Dive12 min
my current fave issue
#042Feb 12
Zapier · Make

Zapier vs. Make: The 2026 Honest Comparison

Comparison9 min
#041Feb 5
Airtable

Airtable Interfaces Are Almost a Real App

Review8 min
#040Jan 29
Glide

The Glide Recipe: Client Portal in 3 Hours

"Shipped to a paying client before the coffee got cold."

Recipe6 min
#039Jan 22
Softr

Softr's New Membership Features: A Founder's Field Notes

Field Notes7 min
#038Jan 15
Webflow

Webflow CMS Limits: The Wall You'll Hit and How to Route Around It

Limits10 min
hit this exact wall
#037Jan 8
Notion

Notion Databases Are Not a CRM (But Here's How to Get Close)

Workflow8 min
#036Jan 1
Tally

Tally + Airtable: The Form Stack That Replaced a $400/mo Tool

Recipe5 min
#035Dec 25
FlutterFlow

FlutterFlow First Impressions: Six Weeks, One App, One Honest Verdict

"I shipped to the App Store. I also wanted to quit four times."

Review14 min
#034Dec 18
Retool

Retool for Non-Engineers: Honest Difficulty Rating

Review9 min
#033Dec 11
Airtable

The Ops Stack: Six Departments, One Airtable Base

Workflow11 min
★ reader fav
#032Dec 4
Pabbly

Pabbly Connect: The Make Alternative Nobody Talks About

Hidden Gem6 min
#031Nov 27
Glide · Adalo

Glide vs. Adalo: Build a Directory App, Compare Everything

Comparison12 min
#030Nov 20
Typeform

Typeform to Notion Pipeline: Zero Code, Real Data

Recipe5 min
#029Nov 13
Bubble

When Bubble Hits Its Ceiling: Migration Paths Worth Knowing

"The ceiling is higher than you think. And lower than you hope."

Strategy10 min
#028Nov 6
Stacker

Stacker: The Airtable Interface We Actually Wanted

Review7 min
#027Oct 30
Multiple

The Agency Replacement Stack: How One Founder Cut Dev Costs by 80%

Case Study13 min
this one went viral
#026Oct 23
Xano

Xano Backend + Webflow Frontend: The Hybrid That Works

Deep Dive11 min
#025Oct 16
Zapier

Zapier Tables: Too Little, Too Late?

Review6 min
#024Oct 9
Make + Airtable

Build a Client Onboarding System in One Afternoon

Recipe7 min

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Bubble shipped their new responsive engine six months ago and I've been holding off on writing about it until I'd actually built something meaningful with it. That time has come. I rebuilt a client project — a B2B portal with a dashboard, a form-heavy onboarding flow, and a data table — from scratch using the new system. Here's what I found.

What changed

The old system used fixed-width containers with manual breakpoints. The new one uses a flexbox-based model where elements flow and wrap like they do in CSS. This sounds obvious, but it's a fundamental shift. You're no longer fighting the engine to get things to stack correctly on mobile.

Where it still hurts

Complex nested layouts still require careful planning. If you've got a repeating group inside a flex row inside a popup, things get unpredictable. I spent two hours debugging a layout that looked fine on desktop but collapsed on a 375px screen. The fix was a single toggle buried in the element's responsive settings.

8/10

Verdict

The new engine is genuinely better. Not "marketing-speak better" — actually better. For new projects, use it from day one. For migrations, budget a day per major page.

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A client needed a simple portal: they upload a brief, I deliver files, they approve or request revisions. I've been doing this over email. This week I built the whole thing in Glide in one sitting. Here's the exact recipe.

The stack

Glide app connected to a Google Sheet. One table for projects, one for deliverables, one for revision notes. The sheet is the database — no external tool needed. I used Glide's built-in file upload component for brief uploads and Cloudinary (free tier) for deliverable hosting.

The flow

Client logs in with their email (Glide's email PIN auth). They see only their projects — filtered by email column. They upload a brief. I get a notification via a Zapier trigger watching the sheet. I upload deliverables, set status to 'Review'. They approve or add revision notes. Status updates, I get notified. Repeat.

9/10

Verdict

Shipped to a paying client before the coffee got cold. The whole thing took 2 hours 47 minutes including the Zapier setup. Glide is genuinely underrated for client-facing portals.

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Webflow CMS is the best no-code content management experience on the market. It's also the most frustrating thing I've used when you hit its limits. This issue is a field guide to those limits — and the workarounds I've found that actually work.

The 20-field limit

CMS collections cap at 20 custom fields. This sounds like plenty until you're building a product catalog with variants, SEO fields, media, pricing tiers, and category data. The workaround: split your data across two related collections. Use a reference field to link them. It adds query complexity but it works.

Dynamic filtering (or the lack of it)

Webflow has no native dynamic filtering on CMS lists. Users can't filter by category on the front-end without a third-party script. Finsweet's CMS Filter is the standard solution — it's free, well-documented, and handles 90% of cases. For more complex filtering, you're looking at custom JavaScript or a headless approach.

7/10

Verdict

The walls are real but they're not dealbreakers. Every limit has a known workaround. The question is whether you want to maintain those workarounds. For marketing sites and content-heavy projects: yes, absolutely. For complex applications: consider a hybrid approach.

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