I've searched high & low for the hottest beta access invites in tech to show you the dos/don'ts when it comes to early access onboarding processes. Here's what I found 🕵🏻
Vice bought a fake iPhone X and disassembled it and asked security researchers to probe it to find out what it is. Verdict: It's wild.
As it turns out, there is such a thing as a free lunch! This is one of my favorite articles which i have read multiple times. The food delivery business is big business just now! But check out this genius hack by a pizza restaurant.
If you are looking to create digital products and make passive income online with a side project read this! Tiny products take two weeks to build, generate income and require zero ongoing maintenance.
In 2017, John McAfee, the antivirus magnate, got a little caught up in Bitcoin’s hype cycle. When asked if Bitcoin would reach $500,000 in value within three years, McAfee responded: “if not, I will eat my d%£k on national television.” The countdown has started!
This piece really resonated with me. "As a NoCode builder, you are not a single-startup-founder. You are a startup studio, looking to create a portfolio of profitable ventures." This is something I am personally challenging myself with next year.
Thousands of articles have been written about TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance, but no one has told the complete story. Until now. This deck is a fascinating summary.
Universe is the first website builder and commerce platform built for mobile devices. With its magical drag and drop interface, anyone can easily create a website and start selling online in minutes from anywhere.
This is the Figma for 3D design. After just a couple of minutes playing with Spline I managed to create a pretty impressive 3D interactive design. 3D design seems be a big design trend currently. Now you can create them yourself.
Yup it's another browser, BUT, this one has a unique twist. As their founder says "Browsers were built to browse" but Sidekick is looking to create a browser to improve your work. I really like their favourite apps navigation feature and tab management tool. Also, it's based on the Chromium browser.
As a mega fan and super user of Notion it pains me to say this but this is an extremely close contender. The UI is stunning and super slick looking. The mobile experience certainly blows Notions out of the water in my opinion. They have recently just publicly launched.
I've been asked a couples of times if I will be making my website design available to clone on Webflow. Heads up! I'm working on it. Hopefully it's something I can get round to over the holiday period.
If you haven't already - check out Webflow!
Hiten Shah recently started a twitter thread of his best content and resources for early stage startups. He's been curating and sharing content for years through his wildly popular Product Habits newsletter. There is so much golden content within this thread. Highly recommended for any early stage founders or makers.
I'll leave you with this 2013 Forbes cover story about the once market leader in cell phones, titled "Nokia - one billions customers - can anyone catch the cell phone king". This was only 13 year ago! 😧
That's it for this month!
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Until next month,
Sam | @thisdickie 👨💻
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