Startup Resources - 🛠 Audience first

🛠 Tools

Submit Juice - Submit your startup to 152+ directories

Is it worth submitting your project to loads of directories?

Maybe. Some are certainly more effective than others. But, even a trickle of users is nice in the early days.

It's a pain to go out and do it yourself. So if you have some budget, you can save a bunch of time and use something like Submit Juice to do it for you.

No budget, no problem - you can get the list of directories for free. 

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Pory - Create websites using Airtable

Came across this no-code tool being used on a curated content site.

Interesting possibilities using the power and user friendliness of Airtable as a backend database. Some example sites to show you what you could do (eg job board, Product Hunt style site).

Not expensive and a free plan to take it for a spin.

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A directory of 200+ resources to create websites

A whole bunch of tools for building websites in this collection. Includes platforms and image / video assets.

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🤓 Articles

The Billion Dollar Blog

I like how Nathan Barry (ConvertKit) thinks about business and I like it when he writes about it. 

This is a great article about building an audience that can become a valuable business. Rules to do it right and some pitfalls to avoid. 

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How to Monetize Your Blog and Make $10K Per Month (Without Ads or Affiliate Marketing)

One for the content sites / blogs. And maybe an extra income stream for SaaS and services.

This is a blueprint for monetizing an audience using a course:

• Turn your site visitors into an engaged audience via email.
• Make a list of great product ideas based on the great content you already have.
• Make sure you have a winning product idea.
• Sell your product before you actually create it.
• Launch your product successfully once it’s built.

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

"In May of 2018 I decided I wanted to launch a SaaS product.

There was only one problem.

I'd never worked on, built, designed or even coded a fully fledged web app or SaaS product."

A cautionary tale. Lessons before you jump straight into coding a tool.

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📢 Classifieds

😢 The awkward end bit