Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 40

Initiator Creator - Issue #40

​By Saurabh Y. // 5 December 2020

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Developer

​The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS - Panel bear

If you ever in the position where you want to built a project and not sure which tech stack to use then this article may help you to choose the most suitable tech stack for your project.

​Considerations for Making a CSS Framework - CSS-Tricks

There are lot of things that you need to consider while making a CSS framework. In this article, Tahmid, creator of Halfmoon, a front-end framework with a built-in dark mode and fully customizable using css vairables, shared his experience and also what are the important considerations for your specific needs.

​The State of CSS Survey 2020 Results - State of CSS

Here are the results of The State of CSS Survey 2020 which is an annual survey about the latest trends in CSS. This year’s results show the adoption of CSS Grid, the rise of Tailwind CSS, plus stats on browser testing, popular resources, and more.

Designer

​Branding Is More Than Just a Logo - OpenView

Branding is absolutely critical to a business—it helps to identify your products, create a persona with which your customers can connect, and distinguish you from your competitors. In this post, Bojan Bajic covered the key elements that make up your branding and how to incorporate them into the design of your digital products.

​A UX designer's guide to interpreting human behavior - Dribbble

In this article, UX Designer Maximiliano Cabrera breaks down some key behavioral queues to be aware of during the user research process and explains how to create a better rapport with participants for more accurate results.

​The UI & UX Tips Collection: Volume One - mrcndrw

Creating beautiful, but also practical UIs takes time, with a lengthly amount of design revisions along the way. In this article Marc Andrew, put together a collection of his popular UI & UX tips from the past 12 months that can, with little effort, help improve both your designs, and the overall user experience.

Entrepreneur

​6 things I wish I knew before I bootstrapped my first SaaS startup - TNW

Pierre de Wulf, founder of PricingBot and ScrapingBee, of which PricingBot was a failure and the ScrapingBee is managed to reach $180K ARR in less than 18 months. So what was the difference between the failure of PricingBot and the success of ScrapingBee? Simply put, experience. Here’s everything he wish he knew when he began his first bootstrapped SaaS

​Advice for the First-time Startup Founder — How Drop's CEO Learned Everything the Hard Way - First Round

This article is a lightly-edited summary of the key takeaways from Steve El-Hage’s appearance on the First Round's podcast, “In Depth.”

​SaaS Pricing: 10 Lessons for Pricing Your Product - ProductPlan

Pricing is such a core part of a SaaS product’s business model that you need to get it right. In this series Jim Semick , founder of Product plan wrote about SaaS pricing lessons he has learned from launching several SaaS products including GoToMeeting, AppFolio, and ProductPlan.

Marketer

​How to write a landing page for problem-aware visitors - CopyHacker

According to MarketingBlender, 73% of consumers report feeling frustrated when your website offers content that has nothing to do with them. The problem isn’t that you’re offering something completely out of pocket. The problem is giving them information that doesn’t match their level of awareness.

​Unspam.email - Email spam checker and newsletter heatmap prediction - Unspam

Unspam.email is an online spam tester tool for emails. Improve your deliverability with the free email tester. The service analyzes the main aspects of an email and returns a spam score and predicts results with a heat map of your email newsletter.

Interesting Read

​The benefits of laziness: why being a lazy person can be good for you - Ness Labs

Far from a fatal flaw, laziness can be beneficial. From wellness benefits to efficiency, being lazy can lead to a healthier, more relaxed life. Maybe a change in attitude towards laziness is overdue.

​7 Cognitive Biases That Make Us Suck at Time Management - Doist

This being a blog about productivity, we’re going to focus on the seven cognitive biases that have the biggest impact on the way we spend our time, prioritize our tasks, and achieve (or fall short of) our goals with concrete strategies to avoid them.

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Outro

🙏 Thank you for reading Initiator Creator issue #40

This issue is sponsored by Safetywing. Safetywing is global health insurance for remote workers and digital nomads.

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