Creating POCs in marketing technology has become a lot easier. Especially for someone like me — an ex-programmer who last coded professionally 10 years ago. Recently I’ve found 3 things particularly helpful:

1) Developer-first platforms with predictable documentation, sandboxes, and transparent pricing so I don’t need to go through mundane “discovery sessions”

2)@Replit— an IDE from the “it just works” family. No time wasted on environment setup, true single-click hosting. Also, the repo forking is a hidden gem of Replit — you can share a repo with your team, they just change secrets, start dabbling on their own, and then they can deploy it right away. Finally, ghostwriter — Replit’s copilot alternative that helps me stay in the zone when I’m looking up CSS syntax.

3)@htmx_org — lets me skip a decade of JS ecosystem “advancements” to get some interactivity done. These might seem of little value to a true coder but for a busy solutions architect or a tech-savvy marketer, this is huge (as I’m getting older, I tend to cherish simple products that help me save my CPU ticks).

Here’s a recent showcase:https://fun-with-promo-codes.sedzia.repl.co This is a basic demo showing how to integrate@voucherifyio and@bannerbearHQ to generate visuals for parametrized promo codes like this:

BTW Bannerbear is a joy to work with — intuitive, smart defaults, easy to integrate with. Impressive feature set when you consider their headcount@yongfook.

You can find the repo herehttps://replit.com/@sedzia/Fun-with-promo-codes#readme.md