Startup Resources - 🛠 How to quickly validate an idea

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🛠 Tools

404 Illustrations

I know you love royalty free images, so take a look at this pack of quirky illustrations for 404 pages. If I wasn't using my favorite The Office GIFs, I'd be using something from this collection.

For inspiration, they've also got some examples of 404 pages using the images.

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Bannerbear Zapier Integration

I've mentioned Bannerbear in a previous issue - I use it to auto generate social images from posts on my podcast directory. 

Now they've released a new feature that allows you to integrate with Zapier to generate images from pretty much anything. Set up a template and connect to your data sources. Very cool feature.

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Probstack - Find Problems Worth Solving

Always looking for a problem that might be turned into a revenue stream? This small but active community discusses exactly that - problems.

Worth keeping an eye on if you're looking to build something new.

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🤓 Articles

How to validate a startup idea using a pre-launch landing page and less than $500 in PPC spend

I can't add much more than the title already gives away 😀

This is a great step by step from GrowthMentor using the real example of how Foti validated GrowthMentor (I know, meta).

Useful process to follow.

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The Secret SEO Formula To Get Thousands of Free Leads for SaaS Companies in 2020

It's all about the long titles today 🤷‍♂️

This is a monster article as well. Takes you through everything you need to know to get started with SEO. Explanations, examples, do's and don'ts - it's all there.

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🎧 Podcast

How to bounce back as a maker with Josh Howarth

Great episode from Product Hunt Radio with Josh Howarth who founded Exploding Topics, an app that lets you find trending topics to build products or content around.

This story has a familiar structure... builds product just to make money, forgets to think about marketing, gets some customers but hits a wall and loses interest, builds something new to solve own problem, other people like it and want it too, grows, gets acquired.

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📰 Newsletter

Engineering Growth

Interesting newsletter about growing products without ads, communities and startup life.

Written by Anna Grigoryan, a software engineer by day and growth engineer by night.

"How to grow your digital product in modern markets without targeted advertising. My topics include growth strategies, automations and my experiments in navigating the community driven world."

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