Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 22

Initiator Creator - Issue #22

By Saurabh Y. // 18 July 2020

Developer

Openbase: choose the right package every time

Openbase helps developers choose the right open-source package every time - through user reviews, categorization, side-by-side comparison, and unparalleled insights about packages' popularity, reliability, activity and more.

RecordRTC: JavaScript library for audio/video as well as screen activity recording

RecordRTC is WebRTC JavaScript library for audio/video as well as screen activity recording. It supports Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Android, and Microsoft Edge. Platforms: Linux, Mac and Windows.

Halfmoon - Front-end framework with a built-in dark mode, designed for rapidly building beautiful dashboards and product pages

Halfmoon is a responsive front-end framework, designed for quickly building beautiful dashboards and product pages. Built-in dark mode, optional JavaScript library (no jQuery), Bootstrap like classes, and cross-browser compatibility (including IE11).

Headless WordPress with Gatsby Cloud

Now you can adapt Gatsby for your agency or organization’s most ambitious web projects and empower your content editors with a familiar publishing workflow

Gradio 1.0 released - Share your ML models easily by generating interfaces with almost no extra code

Gradio is a library we built to let you make interfaces out of your models as simple as possible. Originally a Stanford project, we allow researchers and developers to take any preexisting model they have and build UIs that can be hosted and shared with minimum effort.


Designer

The Death of Design Files

Back in 2006, Google Docs changed the way we collaborate: no more attaching files to your emails. A similar transformation is now happening with design files, and we are finally able to streamline our workflow while collaborating with more disciplines in real time.

5 Business Trends That Will Greatly Impact The Design World

industry experts predicted some business trends would affect the design world: Advances in voice-user interfaces, for instance, would require designers to transpose their visual UX skills into an entirely new field.

Tabler Icons

A set of over 550 free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for you to use in your web projects.

Slack Design

A collection of articles and resources from the design team at Slack.

Collaborative Design Research

"I’d like to share one of these tools with you. Specifically, one that makes design research more collaborative. Broadening the community of research on your team not only improves the quality of the final design, but also builds empathy and trust with folks you might not otherwise have a relationship with." - Matthew Strom


Entrepreneur

Calculating Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) in 3 Ways — Guts, Churn Rates, Survival Rates

Unlike, transactional businesses, the subscription business accumulate revenues from the same customer over time. This is called Customer Life Time Value or CLV.

The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever

A tear rolled down my cheek for every single digit of my credit card that I entered in their app. I am officially not only a subscriber, but also a fan. Every time I'll get a payment notification it's gonna feel like stepping on a lego ... glued to a knife. My bank might as well change the notification from "You have paid 5$ to ThatCompany" to "You never shipped, loser".

What Makes Developers Bad at Business

The aim of this article isn’t to discourage developers from bootstrapping; in fact, it’s quite the opposite. Armed with this information developers who journey to “the other side” of SaaS should come out unscathed and excited for the future of their product.

Between Workaholism & Procrastination

A Procrastinator has this Instant Gratification Monkey (1) who wants immediate rewards, to have fun, and enjoy the moment without giving a shit about the future. A workaholic has a Panic Monster (2) who wants to work so hard and sacrifice everything today so you can be happy tomorrow.


Marketer

How to Create the Ultimate Lead Capture Page - 11 Tips

whether you’re just starting your marketing journey or trying to improve your conversion rates—aren’t we all?—here’s what I wish I knew when I created my first lead capture page.


Interesting Read

No-Code is Eating the World

no-code is eating the world. While no-code has recently been climbing the ranks in popularity, it’s a concept almost as old as the Internet.

Minimalism — The most undervalued development skill

If you want a cheap trick to make a difference — here's one: minimalism. Focus on the bare essentials and get rid of the rest. It's an easy way to differentiate, because most others are doing the opposite: tons of crap.


Community Submissions

This new section is dedicated to projects and interesting articles written by Initiator Creator Community members. If you like to share your project or article with the rest of the readers then please DM me @savydv

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IndieLetters is a highly curated newsletter for Indie makers and marketers. It has several sections such as growth & sales, product development, design & UX, content creators. And every newsletter has a sprinkle of snippets or shower thoughts.


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