Biases, Fallacies, Istria ☀️
👋 Welcome!
Good morning from beautiful and sunny Istria. I spent the last two days driving with my wife from London to Istria in northern Croatia. We travelled via France, Germany, Austria and Slovenia, crossing The Vosges Mountains in Alsace and The Alps in Carinthia. An amazing journey with stunning and changing scener. And such a welcome change to London. I was expecting some checks at borders regards COVID, but these were negligible. It was one of the smoothest road trips I’ve had. I will spend the next few weeks working from this idyllic setting. I also hope it will give my creativity and productivity a boost of energy. In addition to my daily newsletter, I’ve wanted to begin writing about my past entrepreneurial activities and experiences. Now is the time to take action, so watch out for more in the coming weeks! I leave you with a photo from this morning (Adriatic in the background) and wish you all a productive and successful week!
😺 Product Hunt Update
July 12, 2020
🥇 Textify: macOS app to recognize text from your images/docs with OCR.
🥈 Copy Paste List: Fun team-building with 1000s of quizzes right inside Slack.
🥉 NextCall: 1 click to join upcoming Zoom calls (and other video calls).
July 11, 2020
🥇 I Ally: Holistic support app for family caregivers.
🥈 SYQEL: Bring your music to life.
🥉 Nudget: The budgeting app for the rest of us.
July 10, 2020
🥇 Tabler Icons 1.0: 550+ free fully customizable SVG icons.
🥈 The Startup Playbook 2nd Edition: Founder-to-founder advice on how to create & build a startup.
🥉 iCompass: Cloud infrastructure compliance and security as-a-service.
🚀 Maker News
Product Biases + Fallacies
Shreyas Doshi shares an insightful thread on the “biases and fallacies we encounter when building products,” often leading to many having little to no impact. One such example is “The Bias-for-Building Fallacy.” As Shreyas explains, “we don’t take the time to thoroughly understand the problem, domain, competitors & other determinants of product success because we feel compelled to be in constant motion.” What’s the solution? One needs “to recognize & call out whenever” one sees this crop up. If you are a Maker or Solopreneur, a good way to uncover these issues early is to find a community of people with similar goals. Meet with them regularly to evaluate and validate your product. Read the full thread.
Source: Shreyas Doshi
Tweet Content
Inspired by Daniel Vassallo’s Twitter course, Stefan Vetter shares a quick & dirty drawing of what he believes you should tweet about. It’s the intersection between what interests you, interests your audience and for what you have credibility. Read Tweet.
Source: Stefan Vetter
Copywriting & Branding Tips
Another helpful thread by Brandon Zhang with Marketing Examples by Harry Dry. I’ve written on a few of these case studies before, but this is a great compilation of how copywriting and personal branding is key to growing online. Read the full thread.
Customizable Icons
Csaba Kissi and Pawel Kuna launched Tabler Icons last Friday (🥇 Product of the Day). The service lets you fully customize 558 SVG icons for your website. Best of all it’s free. Visit the website to learn more.
💭 Afterthought
To finish the day, some useful advice from David Perell for newsletter writers. Before you consider going paid, you need to build up a substantial and engaged audience, especially if your newsletter is less niche. A crucial reason for this as both @lennysan and @packym explain, is that once you go paid, it will get more difficult to attract new signups and subscribers from the occasional free publication and ultimately slow your growth. Take care and see you tomorrow!
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