Trevor here. As always, here are two startups worth checking out. If you enjoy the newsletter, please show love to the sponsors, since they help to fuel this newsletter.

🇺🇸 Okay: Actionable, plug-and-play dashboards for engineering leaders. (Founded 2019, Total Funding Amount: 2.4M seed)

How it works

Okay connects with the tools where your engineers already work. It also provides dashboards and insights that help you lead a high-performing team.

The Team

Based in San Francisco, US, co-founded by Antoine Boulanger and Tomas Barreto.

Antoine has led teams from 5 to 150 engineers in startups and big tech companies. Tomas worked as the VP of Engineering at a publicly traded company, Box.

The backstory

We made Okay because, as software engineers and then as managers, we were shocked by the lack of visibility into the bottlenecks that slow engineering teams down.

We decided to build an analytics tool on solid foundations — focusing on team signals as opposed to big-brother style monitoring of individuals, and giving our users the same amount of querying power they would expect from an APM or telemetry tool. — Antoine Boulanger, Co-founder and CEO @Okay

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🇬🇷 MagicPattern: From branding products to building websites, MagicPattern gives you the creative power to amaze your clients. (Founded 2020, Total Funding Amount: bootstrapped)

Here’s what MagicPattern users have to say about the product.

Carl Poppa 🛸 @poppacalypse

Creating the patterns is a breeze. @MagicPattern also makes it so easy for dummies like me to export or embed my generated patterns anywhere. i usually just 'Copy CSS code'. love love LOOOOOVE it 💖 link: magicpattern.design (no affiliation, just a big fan!)

May 14th 2021

1 Retweet14 Likes

How it works

MagicPattern generates unlimited high-quality background graphics for your clients and your products.

The Metrics

• MRR: $1.1k/mo

• Daily Active Users: 100-200 users

• Paid Users: 276

• Registered Users: 20k

The Team

Founded by Jim Raptis, who is based in Greece. Jim is a full-time indie hacker and creator. He builds, launches, and grows products all by himself.

Previously, Jim co-founded VisualEyes (a VC-backed company) along with 3 co-founders. Building VisualEyes helped him learn many valuable entrepreneurial lessons that assisted him on the indie hacking journey.

The backstory

I’ve been designing websites, graphics & marketing assets for over 8 years now. And I found it’s difficult to create an engaging background even if you’re a pro designer.

So, I started experimenting with generative art and SVG graphics to solve this problem with creative coding.

Jim Raptis @d__raptis

WOW!!! 🔥 I'm #1 on the indieleaders.xyz/leaderboard. Thank you for your support Twitter friends. PS. Love your app @88media

May 25th 2021

1 Retweet25 Likes

The long-term vision for MagicPattern is to dominate the no-design world. Helping people (creative or not) to create amazing graphics is my number one goal.

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