Mark Frain

Mark Frain

NoSho.appNoSho.app
Founder, NoSho.app
92 points

About

UK-based solo maker. Proud dad with a love of creating products. I’ve spent 25 years designing apps for leading brands like JD Sports, Hugo Boss, and E.ON Energy — now I’m creating NoSho, a platform to help small businesses fill availability, grow their waitlist and take secure deposits.

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Top 5 Launch
Top 5 Launch
Tastemaker
Tastemaker
Gone streaking
Gone streaking

Maker History

  • NoSho.app
    NoSho.appGrow your waitlist and fill availability fast with deposits
    Nov 2025
  • 🎉
    Joined Product HuntJuly 18th, 2025

Forums

We can order dinner to our door in 3 taps, but why does booking a haircut still feels like 2009?

I built NoSho.app because trying to find a haircut or any service when I have immediate availability is harder than ordering food or getting a taxi. You Google, you scroll, browse bookings systems which are a maze, you DM, you call, they re full and you give up.

If you could skip all of that, and just see nearby availability instantly about any business, would you book more services?
Honest opinions welcome.

Nika

3mo ago

How many attempts did it take you to launch your first successful business?

From listening to different people and their journeys, I ve realised that before they built their first profitable product, many of them failed multiple times.

Similar stories were shared by @marclou , @levelsio or @iuliia_sh to name a few.

Mekup/mekuMusharof Chowdhury

3mo ago

Meku just crossed 10k users!

Meku just crossed 10,000 registered users, it's a big milestone for us and hits different

The AI coding and dev tool space is loud and very competitive, but seeing so many people try Meku and actually stay shows we re building something that genuinely helps devs and teams ship faster and build better web apps

Massive love to the Meku team for grinding and polishing every day, and heartfelt thanks to our early users for trusting what we re creating

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