👋 Hey, Ruchin here! Welcome to this week’s edition of the ✨Top of the Lyne✨ newsletter. Each week we publish the hottest news from the beautiful world of product-led growth! (PLG)

The outcome we're shooting for is simple... to get enough folks excited about the product-led world that we so dearly love ❤️

Take Toplyne for a spin!🎯

Into the Twitterverse 🐦🌌

• No code, no credit card, no problem 🫡

  It’s 2022. Fire up a website, a couple of web and mobile apps, your payment gateways, automations to your DBs, a few forms, and a chatbot all for free without writing a single line of code.

  These are the salad days of the no-code movement 🤝 PLG

Sveta Bay @sveta_bay

You don't need to code in 2022. There's a no-code solution for everything.

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• Your $1M+ deals can start with a single champion user 🕺🏻

  …especially if you’re building in a new category. Proving your value > deal size with your early whale conversations.

• What do you think they’re smoking over at Slack HQ?🚬

Slack @SlackHQ

There’s always something ending and always something beginning. The constant is the present moment.

8:22 PM ∙ Oct 5, 2022

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🔎 The PLG hunt

Send presentations that people love to receive 💕 ft. Journey

Create magical experiences that win more deals by combining videos, slides, text, and embeds from your favorite tools.

Storytelling superpowers = unlocked!🔓

Journey @journeyio

GOOD MORNING ☀️ Today, we are on @ProductHunt: producthunt.com/posts/journey-7 Thrilled to be introducing more people to Journey. (Devastated that our URL has that silly 7 in it.)

producthunt.comJourney - Don’t just show your story, tell it - with Journey | Product HuntJourney is a presentation tool that people love to receive. People use Journey to win deals of all kinds - fundraising, sales, recruiti...

1:31 PM ∙ Oct 5, 2022

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Which hot and upcoming PLG company are you most excited about? 👇🏻

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Growth Stories 🚀

Think In-App? Think Appcues.

Appcues makes it super easy for your product, marketing, growth, or customer success team to drive business value by creating delightful, timely, and personal product experiences for end-users.✨

We dig deep to uncover the BTS behind the product that teams at Canva, Typeform, Amplitude, and 4,000 others swear by!🚀

Top of the Lyne

Think In-App? Think Appcues

Do you want more of these deep dives in your inbox? Go on, hit it 👇🏼 In the late ‘90s, Clifford Nass and Byron Reeves at Stanford published breakthrough research that underscored a crucial insight: that human beings react to computers with the same set of emotional reactions that they use to react to other human beings. This was pioneering work…

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2 days ago · 4 likes · Aishwarya G, Rahul Krishnan, and Ruchin Kulkarni

Fundraising, Venture Capital, and Exits 🤑

• SingleStore nabs $30M Series F✨

  SingleStore helps companies simplify their data architecture. Round led by Prosperity7 Ventures.

  

  TechCrunch @TechCrunch

  SingleStore raises $30M more to brings its database tech to new customers tcrn.ch/3yeKvuV by @Kyle_L_Wiggers

  

  tcrn.chSingleStore raises $30M more to bring its database tech to new customersSingleStore, which provides a relational database platform for enterprise, has raised an additional $30 million as part of its extended...

  2:31 PM ∙ Oct 4, 2022

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• Humaans raises $15M Series A 🤑

  Humaans provides the ultimate HR stack by automating everything from employee onboarding to compensation management.

  

  TechCrunch @TechCrunch

  Humaans raises $15M to simplify HR tasks like onboarding tcrn.ch/3EbZcCY by @Kyle_L_Wiggers

  

  tcrn.chHumaans raises $15M to simplify HR tasks like onboardingHumaans, a startup developing an HR tech platform to consolidate tasks around people management, has raised $15 million....

  12:01 PM ∙ Oct 4, 2022

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• Tines secures $55M in Series B 🎉

  Tines empowers security companies with automation, quicker phishing response, help desk ticket management, etc.

  

  TechCrunch @TechCrunch

  Tines raises $55M more to automate security workflows tcrn.ch/3SC1DD7 by @Kyle_L_Wiggers

  

  tcrn.chTines raises $55M more to automate security workflowsTines, a company building security workflow automation software for enterprise customers, has raised $55 million in an extended Series ...

  1:01 PM ∙ Oct 4, 2022

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Launches, events, and releases

• Bid adieu to long & tiresome feedback loops with Latitude 🤝

  Latitude is bringing teams closer by providing a better way of collaborating on data projects.

  The future is collaborative! ✅

  

  Latitude @trylatitude

  Today we're launching 🌈 Latitude 1.0, the first publicly available version of our next-gen BI. We're very excited and can't wait to hear your feedback! Check out the announcement in Product Hunt: producthunt.com/posts/latitude…

  

  producthunt.comLatitude - The next-gen BI tool for modern teams | Product HuntLatitude is a next-gen BI tool built for real-time collaboration, performance & ease-of-use. Reduce back and forth, speed up feedback l...

  8:22 AM ∙ Oct 5, 2022

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Nerding out on PLG 🤓📚

It’s not a question of if you should do PLG, it’s a question of when.

The OG, Elena Verna on how PLG came around to be, the five laws of growth, and much more!🔥

If you are confused about how and why to implement a PLG motion in your organization, dive right in!👇

Could You, Would You, Product-Led Growth? by Amplitude Head of Growth Product School Episode

Blazing Hot Meme Zone ⚡️

Brace yourself, the “no-code developer” LinkedIn profile updates are coming 🫣

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