Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 17

Initiator Creator - Issue #17

​By Saurabh Y. // 30 May 2020

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Developer

​A Frontend Stack For Video Games​

Tales of a powerful and expressive game engine built entirely from open-source, web-based technologies.

​Supabase: Open Source Firebase Alternative​

Supabase adds realtime and restful APIs to Postgres without a single line of code.

​Introducing Web Vitals: Essential Metrics For A Healthy Site​

Web Vitals, an initiative by Google to provide unified guidance for quality signals that, are essential to delivering a great user experience on the web.

​DataStore — CRUD (Create Read Update Delete)​

Goodbye Redux, MobX, Apollo! Amplify DataStore allows developers to write applications using distributed data without writing additional code for an offline or online script.

​DuckDB: An embeddable SQL OLAP Database Management System​

DuckDB is an embedded database designed to execute analytical SQL queries fast while embedded in another process. It is designed to be easy to install and easy to use. DuckDB has no external dependencies. DuckDB has bindings for C/C++, Python and R.

Designer

​Let's Make One of Those Fancy Scrolling Animations Used on Apple Product Pages​

A lot of the effects that you see there aren’t created in just HTML and CSS. What then, you ask? Well, it can be a little hard to figure out. Even using the browser’s DevTools won’t always reveal the answer, as it often can’t see past a <canvas> element.

​Over-complicated? Over-simplified? The UX Efficient Frontier​

We are not our users. We are even less our expert users.

​10 Excellent font pairing tools for designers​

Pairing typefaces can be tricky, but with the help of some handy resources, you’ll get the hang of mixing and matching the right fonts in no time.

​Keyframes: Visual editors to generate CSS for your projects​

Keyframes is a straightforward way to create CSS @Keyframe animations, box-shadows, colors, and more. Use the visual editors to adjust properties and watch the changes live as you make them, then instantly get the generated CSS to use in your projects.

Entrepreneur

​List of Bootstrapped Founders with at Least $10.000 MRR​

Davis Baer curated a list of bootstrapped founders with at least $10.000 MRR, both past, and present.

​I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich​

I'd done a lot of reading around the SaaS model and I'd read things like Tyler Tringas' storemapper, IndieHackers and MakeBook. VC is for losers and bootstrapping is a way of life.

​Pory: A no-code tool for creating sites using Airtable​

Pory.io is a no-code tool for creating websites using Airtable as a database. Using a collection of templates, you can create sites like marketplaces, social networks, lists and more!

​Steve Blank Seven Steps to Small Business Recovery​

Honeybook CEO Oz Alon observed that there was a pattern to these pivots. Regardless of the type of service they were offering or the kind of businesses they had, they took the same seven steps:

Marketer

​Marketing for Engineers​

A curated collection of marketing articles & tools to grow your product.

​Email Mastery - The place to learn email marketing​

A growing list of case studies, breaking down everything you need to know about email marketing.

Interesting Read

​Untools - Tools for better thinking​

Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.

Outro

🙏 Thank you for reading Initiator Creator issue #17

If you like to contribute in the curation process or would like to suggest an article then kindly drop me a message at saurabh@initiatorcreator.com or tweet me at @initiatorcreatr

Thank You!

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