Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 32

Initiator Creator - Issue #32

​By Saurabh Y. // 26 September 2020

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Developer

​Visx from Airbnb - Medium

Visx (formerly known as VX) is a collection of expressive, low-level visualization primitives combining the power of D3 with DOM benefits of React.

​Finding The Root Cause of a CSS Bug - Ahmad Shadeed

While solving a bug without digging into its details might seams okay for you, it can accidentally produce other bugs. Instead of solving a bug from the ground up, you create more and more bugs rather than reducing them.

​Thinking About Power Usage and Websites - CSS-Tricks

Gerry McGovern asked if I had any insight into energy consumption and websites.

Designer

​Adobe XD Has a New Look​ - Adobe

"We’ve launched a new look for Adobe XD. It’s not an app redesign (yet), but think of it as a new suit of clothes."- Khoi Vinh

​Wikipedia is getting a new look for the first time in 10 years - Wikimedia

Multi-year project aiming to create an experience that feels similar to long-time users, yet straightforward and intuitive for new folks.

​ComicA11y - An all-inclusive online comic experiment - ComicA11y

ComicA11y is an experiment that aims to achieve an all-inclusive online comic reading experience. Because comics should be universal.

​State of Prototyping by Framer & Design Week - Framer

The 2020 State of Prototyping report, by Design Week and Framer, offers an unprecedented look at global, industry trends. Based on data from a survey of senior designers and in-depth interviews from VPs at companies like Salesforce, Instagram, VW, and more.

​Mono Icons - Open source Icon set - Mono

A simple, consistent open-source icon set designed to be used in a wide variety of digital products.

Entrepreneur

​How Kinsta Reached the First 1,000 Customers​ - Kinsta

"In the first post, I covered 16 important lessons which helped us to not only grow the business and increase ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue), but also how we did it without any outside investments." - Tom Zsomborgi, Kinsta

​Launch the Damn MVP - Launch the damn mvp

These 30+ MVP's were not great, neither should yours.

​YC Startup Directory - Y Combinator

Discover YC companies by batch, industry, region, and company size.

​Unwritten rules for venture savvy founders - Substack

Because there’s unfortunately no user manual for venture capital.

​9 Tricks to Experiment with your Pricing Strategy - Medium

As part of my job at Stripe, I get to work with many early-stage startups and help them figure out their monetization and pricing strategies. While most founders have a clear product vision, surprisingly few have an idea about what their pricing should look like.

Marketer

​​​Marketing for Beginners: The Best Articles and Expert Resources - MorningBrew

The expert curators at Morning Brew have tapped experts, sifted through years of blog posts, and watched every Nike ad since sneakers were invented to bring you a 10-step guide to the best resources in the marketing industry.

​​​How Intercom Built a $50MM ARR Empire - Optimist

"I’m going to tear down Intercom’s content marketing efforts and reveal the key strategies that they’ve used to grow and scale at such a phenomenal rate." - Tyler Hakes

​​​Let's Talk About "Growth Hacking" - Optimist

It seems that most people think that growth hackers are those who have found some holy grail to achieving growth and scale. They have, somehow, cracked the code and they can apply it like a magic formula to your business and it will take off tomorrow. This is not how growth hacking works.

Interesting Read

​​​How to Overcome Your Fear of Failure with The Bucky Method - Taylor Pearson

Late in his life, Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller cited that moment as when he overcame his fear of failure. He began to view his life as an experiment to be the crucial turning point for what became an immensely productive life.

​​​Networked thinking: a quiet cognitive revolution​​ - Ness Labs

Networked thinking is an explorative approach to problem-solving, whose aim is to consider the complex interactions between nodes and connections in a given problem space.

Community Submissions

If you like to share your project or article with the rest of the readers then please DM me @savydv

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​Blacklight – A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector​

Blacklight will scan any website address and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site—and who’s getting your data.

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Outro

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