Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 31

Initiator Creator - Issue #31

​By Saurabh Y. // 19 September 2020

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Developer

​​​On the shoulders of APIs - Increment

By fostering engagement and turning participants into cocreators, APIs can play a giant-sized role in scaling digital communities.

​​​A half billion apps will be created. We need more software builders - Airtable

Airtable's new platform empowers teams to build exactly what they need, using flexible, powerful tools.

​A Software Engineer’s Guide to Cybernetics - Medium

Everything in the universe is a series of feedback loops: some negative, some positive, some reinforcing, some balancing. Cybernetics was the academic study of whether such loops could be measured, quantified and ultimately programmed.

​​​GitHub CLI - GitHub’s official free and open source command line tool - Github

GitHub CLI is a free and open-source command-line for GitHub. It provides GitHub's graphical features like pull requests, issues, releases, etc. into a terminal. So, anyone can perform the whole GitHub operation from a terminal or with a script.

​​​Visualize Data Structures in VSCode - Addy Osmani

VSCode Debug Visualizer is a VSCode extension that allows you to visualize data structures in your editor. This can be useful for visualizing watched values during debugging.

Designer

​​​Welcome to Your Bland New World of Consumer Capitalism​ - Bloomberg

Why do disruptive startups slavishly follow an identikit formula of business model, look and feel, and tone of voice? Because it works, sort of.

​​​The Evolution of the Google Sign Up Form: The Mirror of the Internet’s Development - Trudov

"This exploration is very useful for understanding design trends. Today I will share my insights into Google’s registration form."- Alex Trudov

​​​A guide to minimalist design​ - UX Collective

The minimalist design concept invites you to embrace the emptiness and to use it as part of your art.

​​​5 Basic Types of Images in Web Design - Design4users

Images aren’t just a factor of beauty: in user experience design, pictures play an important part in building up usability. Most web users are visually driven, they perceive pictures faster than words.

Entrepreneur

​​​Forbes releases The Cloud 100 2020 list - Forbes

On Wednesday, Forbes released their Cloud 100 list, which annually ranks the world’s top private cloud companies. Snowflake topped the list just hours before graduating to a public company, with Stripe dropping into second.

​​​The Billion Dollar Blog - Nathan Barry

From Into the Gloss Emily created Glossier, the groundbreaking beauty brand now valued at over $1 billion. That’s the power of an audience.

​​​ilo · Better Twitter analytics - ilo

Your Twitter account, like you've never seen it before. ilo surfaces helpful metrics so you can understand and grow both engagement and followers..

​​​What to do when a customer asks to see your startup's financials - VentureBeat

Here’s how to deal with a request for financials if you get one

​​​The 4 Enterprise Sales Misconceptions for Startup Founders - OpenView

Enterprise sales is not a simple switch to make from SMB sales—it’s a completely different beast.

Marketer

​​​Series by Intercom - A powerful, intuitive visual campaign builder - Intercom

Series help's to build behaviour based customer messaging campaigns in Intercom, enabling seamless orchestration of multiple messages including in-apps, emails, product tours, bots, mobile push and mobile carousels.

​​​Why Digital Marketing Isn't Working for Your Tech Startup​ - Hackernoon

Marketing Your Tech Startup Digitally isn't Working Because You Haven't Clearly Defined Target Personas

​​​3 Common Content Mistakes That B2B Tech Companies Can Easily Avoid - Contently

Here are the three biggest mistakes that crept into the content along with advice Sooraj Shah offered for how to fix them.

​​​The Only 7 Popups You’ll Ever Need to Drive More Leads and Sales - Sleeknote

"I want to share the seven types of popups you need to know or be familiar with, at least. Not all will be relevant to your organization, mind you. But those that are will update you on the best practices you need to follow." - Sam Thomas

Interesting Read

​​​The Three Year Rule: How To Stay Motivated Working On A Long-Term Project - Ivaylo Durmonski

“Good things take time,” others say. But being patient in the world of reactions without delay is hard. It takes true heroism to keep working on a project for years until you finally make it.

​​​How to think better - Ness Labs

As Einstein wrote in 1936: “All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.” A common misconception is that brilliant thinkers are born that way, but thinking is a skill which can be improved.

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Outro

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