A New Year, A New Mission. What's Next?
Articles
I love this piece by one of my favourite makers on the internet Zoe Chew 🔥 This post is a super transparent take on her 2020 journey as a #indiehacker, discussing her new product releases, content views, earnings etc it's all here!
This insightful piece by Andrew Yu highlights the power of leverage. Leverage allows you to accomplish 100x what others can – it is a force multiplier for your effort, skill, and judgement. It’s time to make today’s labor tomorrow’s leverage 💪🏼
This one goes out to all you aspiring creators. Personally, I wish I had some of this advice years ago to inspire me to create. Instead, I found plenty of excuses to wait. Justin Mikolay shares a list of learnings from the words of the creators themselves.
Peter Ramsey has some of the most fascinating UX case studies on the internet and this new post is no exception. He highlights various UX do's and don'ts from one of the most successful music streaming platforms.
🔗 Links
Shaan Puri is back at it again - sharing is frameworks, business wisdom making money online and much more with Jack Butcher - founder of the popular Visualize Value community. It takes a while to get into the meaty stuff but well worth a watch.
I recently discovered Dan Siepen's personal site and have been hooked on his curated lists. This curated list of 33+ No Code tools includes Dan's personal stack for building internal marketing workflows, websites, content experiences and automations.
Side Hustle Stack is a Notion resource created by Li, Brandon & Lila for finding platform-based work, ranging from gig work and side hustles to platforms that can help you start a small business. I'm particularly interested in each tools average payout, equipment needed and fees.
I ❤️ this approach to validating desirability for a hardware product before mass producing it.
📱 Products
Last week Veranika Prilutskaya shared this super handy free tool to track analytics on a Notion page. It took me 2 minutes to generate a tracking code and embed on the page. A few minutes later and I'm receiving the analytics on my Google Analytics dash.
This awesome side project by Rainer Selvet allows you to publish a website from Notion in seconds. Use a custom domain, track analytics and more. He provides one hosted page for free - no registration required. Check out my example here.
Ok, last Notion product I promise. As a Product Manager organisation is key! So I'm excited to get my hands Toby Allen's ready-made pack of over 100 Notion templates for all your Product Management needs. Early access is open now!
From the makers of MailBrew aka Fabrizio Rinaldi - comes Typefully. A Distraction-free editor to write & publish tweets and threads. This a great tool for all you distracted Twitter users out there. Best of all, it's totally free to use.
🐦 Tweet of the month
Paul Yacoubian recently pointed out OpenAI's latest update to GTP-3 - called DALL·E. In short, it creates images from text captions. Check out some of the wild examples below! 🤯 Is the end for designers?
⚡️ Flashback
I'll leave you with this eerily accurate depiction of IBM's FaceTime 'like' set up as shown in the 1968 film '2001: A Space Odyssey'. 🤯
That's it for this month!
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Until next month,
Sam | @thisdickie 👨💻
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