Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 33

Initiator Creator - Issue #33

​By Saurabh Y. // 3 October 2020

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Developer

​​​Code scanning is now available! - Github

GitHub code scanning is a developer-first, GitHub-native approach to easily find security vulnerabilities before they reach production.

​​​Catchar - Community for Augmented Reality Developers - Catchar

A global web-community and marketplace where developers and companies build, sell and support the best Augmented and Mixed Reality projects together

​​​Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users - KeepTheScore

How much does running a webapp in production actually cost? Maybe more than you think. Keepthescore.co is a Python flask application running on DigitalOcean and Firebase. It currently has around 55k unique visitors per month, per day it’s around 3.4k.

​​​Introducing the New JSX Transform - ReactJS

Although React 17 doesn’t contain new features, it will provide support for a new version of the JSX transform.

​​​Git Internals - Build Your Own Git - Nikita Leshenko

μgit (ugit) is a small implementation of a Git-like version control system (VCS). It's top goal is simplicity and educational value. ugit is implemented in small incremental steps, with each step explained in detail. Hopefully you will be able to read the small steps (explanation and code) and slowly build a complete picture of the internals.

Designer

​​​The world needs a tech diet; here is how designers can help​​ - UX Collective

It’s time we bridge the gap between feel-good Design & Ethics panels and the work we do every day as digital product designers.

​​​Wrrooom! Illustration Constructor - Lstore Graphics

An illustration creator to easily generate an unlimited amount of illustrations for different purposes. You can also create avatars, change their expressions and choose from over 200 elements.

​​​Design better by avoiding your cognitive biases - Koos Looijesteijn

The more time you spend on your design, the more love you will take for your design. So it would be difficult for you to receive feedback and change your design.

​The 5 main anti-trends in design. Everything is cool, until it isn’t cool - UX Collective

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.

​​​The Ultimate Guide to UX Research - Maze design

This comprehensive guide to UX research dives into the fundamentals of research and its various methods and includes tips and best practices from leading industry experts.

Entrepreneur

​​​How Notion Built A $2B SaaS Startup Through Community & Templates​​ - Foundation

How did Notion become a $2 billion SaaS company with 1MM+ users, and what can they do to reach the next million users?

​​​Here Is How These 5 Side Projects Became Unicorn Startups - Medium

We explore from Groupon to Craiglist who started as a side project and have eventually landed themselves in the unicorn club.

​​​Casey Newton on Leaving ‘The Verge’ for Substack and the Future of Tech Journalism - One Zero

Sarah Jeong talks to Newton about the details of his deal, subscription journalism, and what makes email such a good media format

​​​indiehackers.tv - Discover shared videos from Indiehackers - indiehackers tv

"Being a frequent visitor to the Indie Hackers forums, I've noticed an increase in the number of videos being posted. Many people are recording and sharing their indie hacker journey as videos, with some people doing live streams."- Mubashar Iqbal

​​​Discovery Assist - Getting early founders the customer intros they need, faster - First Round

Early Founders should spend more of their energy gathering insights from great potential customers — but the process of cold-emailing 300 folks to set up 10 calls is rough.

Marketer

​​​B2B SaaS Marketing Guide 2020 - Kracov

Defining your b2b marketing strategy depends on a range of variables from your product positioning to business model.

​​​4 ways to use psychology to win your competition’s customers - TheNextWeb

The cold truth is that the better product does not necessarily win. However, there’s hope. The right strategy can crowbar the competition’s users’ habits, giving you a chance to win them over.

Interesting Read

​​​How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably - Steph Smith

The first step in becoming great is recognizing that you’re likely not already great. In fact, it comes from recognizing that there is no such thing as greatness at a specific instance in time.

​​​The power of flexible consistency and mindful time blocking​​ - Ness Labs

Life is chaotic. Things will go wrong. Flexible consistency is about combining proactive planning with reactive adaptation so you can make significant progress over the long-term.

Community Submissions

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Outro

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