Change, Distributed, Opportunity, Crazy
☕ Good Morning!
Welcome to Friday everyone! Ryan Hover shares a post by Matt Mullenweg, a founding developer of Wordpress. His two main theses are that “distributed is the future of work, and that open source is the future of technology and innovation.” The discussion around remote working has been active since the 60s and 70s, and many expected it would happen much earlier. But he rightly points out that “change happens slowly, then all at once.” Matt believes that “over time people will be able to move houses, tweak furniture, buy equipment, upgrade their internet, and otherwise adapt to being more productive in a distributed environment than they ever could be in an office.” Makes total sense to me! Read the full story here.
🚀 Maker News
Talking of distributed work, Tobi Lutke, CEO of Shopify, announced that “office centricity is over.” Shopify will keep its offices closed until 2021, after which most staff will permanently WFH. Read the full Twitter thread here.
The Hustle shares a brief post for the case of starting a business during the pandemic economy. You’ll need that original idea solving some problem, and it might be trickier to get capital, but the trend to self-employment is on the up as are the applications to Y Combinator. Read the full post here.
To top that off, Geoff Roberts from Outseta expands on Channing Allen’s Indie Hackers post from April on how the recession could produce more indie makers. He outlines his tips on how to hack through this period, emphasizing the importance of “cutting through the bullshit and getting down to the work of building a profitable business from day one”. The weapons of the new indie maker will be “speed to market, low overhead, and a new mindset.” Read the full post here.
🏗️ Build + Launch
Josh shares another insightful article with us written by Justin Jackson from Transistor. “Catching waves is about patience” as is finding the right opportunity, so “don’t get impatient!” And if you “can't see a good opportunity where you are? Paddle to a new spot.” Justin outlines his thoughts on choosing your market, what makes a good market, your skillset for that market, and building the right product. Read the full post here.
🖥️ NoCode
If you are in the UK, we have a long weekend ahead of us. So if you’re lost for what to do and want to polish up on your NoCode skills, then I highly recommend the video below by Jan Losert, which Ben Tossell terms as “the easiest guide to Webflow 🤩 - I would've loved this before I started adding div after div.” Watch the video below and read Jan’s Medium post here.
💭 Afterthought
To finish off the week on a lighter note, Craig Barber from Logobly shares ten of the most ridiculous business ideas that made tons of money. My favourite is still the Million Dollar Homepage by Alex Tew ($1 per pixel) and the craziest has to be Ship Snow, Yo! You can read the full post here. All that’s left to say, is have a 😎 + 🌞 (extended if in the UK) weekend & see you next week!
