Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 30

Initiator Creator - Issue #30

​By Saurabh Y. // 12 September 2020

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Developer

​​​5 most annoying website features I face as a blind person every single day - The Big Hack

"These are the five most annoying inaccessible web elements I face as a blind screen reader user every day, and how to fix them." - Holly Tuke

​​​Mozilla Promoted Add-ons Pilot Program - Mozilla

To support developers, Mozilla is adding a new program called Promoted Add-ons, where add-ons can be manually reviewed and featured on the AMO homepage for a fee. Offering these services as paid options will help Mozilla expand the number of add-ons that are verified and give developers more ways to gain users.

​​​OpenUnit - Software for Self-Storage Facilities - OpenUnit

OpenUnit is a complete set of tools that gives storage operators the things they need most—a powerful online presence, reservation system, merchant solutions, and management software to simplify running a storage business.

​​​12 Useful Packages Every Node.js Developer Should Know - Medium

Node packages that will make you more productive every day. Node.js is great for reusing code — and the backbone of reusing code is NPM packages.

​​​An Open-source VR headset - Relativty

"Relativty is entirely Open-source; we made it to be a testing ground for hackers and developer rather than a product. You can find the source code as well as the source for the electronics, hardware, and mechanical parts on our Github." - Max Coutte

Designer

​​​Logo Design Process From Start To Finish​​ - ebaqdesign

In this article, Arek Dvornechuck will guide you through his proven, step-by-step logo design process on a real-case scenario.

​​​5 important things when designing for Instagram - UX Planet

There are some tips to watch out for a professional look on Instagram. Let’s get along from the beginning: These tips will not be simple tips like ‘use quality images’, ‘find your target audience’. It will be a little more professional and I will explain this through an example I did.

​​​How to create stronger layouts with the 8pt Grid System - UX Collective

The 8pt Grid is one of the most commonly used Layout Grid Systems there is, and for very good reason.

​​​Figma & design thinking: Building a design system for an existing product - UX Collective

"Here is how I went about creating a Design System in Figma for a product that already exists by using the design thinking process."-Tammy Taabassum

Entrepreneur

​​​The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Beating Loneliness - Medium

Strategies for recovering the social benefits of having co-workers.

​​​In-App Purchase Rules - Marco

Your app must use Apple’s in-app-purchase (IAP) system for all purchases made in the app. Unless they’re purchases for goods or services that are consumed outside the app, in which case you are prohibited from using IAP.

​​​Stripe Checkout - Stripe built checkout pages - Stripe

Stripe Checkout is a prebuilt, hosted payment page optimized for conversion. Whether you offer one-time purchases or subscriptions, use Checkout to easily and securely accept payments online.

​​​Neo - A customer texting solution with inbuilt CRM - Neo

Neo helps startups drive revenue through texting. Neo's smart bot and CRM help small business owners dialogue with customers at scale.

​​​13 Things You Should Know If You Are A Software Developer/Entrepreneur - HackerNoon

13 different things that you can learn today if you want to be a tech entrepreneur or a better engineer to make an application and ship it to your customers.

Marketer

​​​Guide to Product Analytics - Mixpanel

Product management is riddled with buzzwords—growth loops, power user curves, big data, AI—and the sheer number of metrics, retention types, charts, and frameworks can overwhelm attempts to understand users and make better products for them.

​​​3 Marketing Strategies Delivering the Best Growth for Online Side Hustles - Hackernoon

Growing an online side-hustle is not easy. Content, in particular, is a risky marketing proposition because of a steep learning curve, high labor and input costs, with very uncertain returns.

​​​Forecasting Sales in a Product-Led Business - ChartMogul

Sales forecasting is challenging on its own and especially so when you have to combine it with a product-led motion. Derek Skaletsky has developed a framework to combine both sales-led and product-led efforts in a single forecast.

Interesting Read

​​​Why 'Civilization' is a political masterpiece - UnHeard

Sid Meier's creation invites us to think about how the world works — and warns it could be a lot worse

​After the paycheque is gone: Successful writers share their secrets​ - Ghost

As journalism slims down after two decades of digital disruption, writers are choosing an independent route. Discover their secrets to success within!

Community Submissions

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​Letterstack - Resources For Newsletter Creators​​

A collection of articles, podcasts, videos and other resources to help creators build, grow and monetize a newsletter.

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Outro

🙏 Thank you for reading Initiator Creator issue #30

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 DM me at @savydv​