Minions, Easy, Failure, Indie

Good morning, Wednesday is upon us! Wishing all Makers and Side Hustlers a productive and successful day!

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🌐 Maker Stories

I purchased Maker Minions by Michael Gill yesterday. It’s a great compendium for any Maker, especially non-coders. It offers a large selection of ready-to-use, easy to understand and time-saving automations, using tools such as Zapier or Parabola.

Michael Gill 🤖👑 @gill_works

Maker Minions is available now! I created this to help makers, side hustlers, and entrepreneurs by providing automation ideas and downloadable templates and recipes. #maker #sidehustle #entrepreneur

makerminions.comMaker Minions101 Automations for Makers, Side Hustlers, and Entrepreneurs - by Michael Gill

Each automation lists a concise description and benefit as well as the applicable automation tool and integrated apps. There is also a template you can use for configuring each automation. Automations include tasks such as retweeting well-performing tweets, producing Google Analytics reports or receiving fresh news on your competitors. As a novice in this field, I created two automations in 20 minutes. Well worth the money, thank you Gill!

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🌐 Ideas, Trends

If you are thinking of selling a digital downloadable product like Maker Minions, Ben Tossel sums up the three simple requirements to achieve this goal below: Carrd + Gumroad + 20 mins. So if you have something of value to share with the world, there’s nothing holding you back now 🚀

Ben Tossell @bentossell

Sell digital downloads easily - Carrd website - Gumroad - 20 minutes

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🌐 Events & Podcasts

The Failory Podcast has launched, bringing us conversations with founders who have failed with previous ventures, but now run successful startups. As most founders have experienced, we learn most from our frustrating mistakes. The great thing is, that these learnings are invaluable and if we persevere and don’t give up, the likelihood that our next venture is a success is very high.

Failory @hellofailory

After months of producing, interviewing and editing, we've finally launched The Failory Podcast - talks with those entrepreneurs who have failed in the past but now run successful startups. 🔥We're currently featured in @ProductHunt 🔥 producthunt.com/posts/the-fail…

producthunt.comThe Failory Podcast - Candid talks with failed startup founders | Product HuntSome founders make it, others not. We’re here to talk with those who’ve gone through both failed and successful startups and learn from their wins and mistakes. Weekly episodes, published on Mondays.

The series launches with four interviews, one of which is with Eric Bandholz, founder of Beardbrand. He tells his insightful story of how after a decade of failure he reached +$1M in revenue per year selling beard products. Listen to the full podcast here.

You can view their list of failed startups in their Startup Cemetery. A good place to do some research when planning your next project.

Product Hunt Radio also has a great interview with Pieter Levels from last Tuesday, titled “The future of remote work and digital nomadism”. As many of you know, Pieter is one of the most prominent Makers in the community, acclaimed for his 12 startups in 12 months journey back in 2014. From there also stem his successful products Nomad List and Remote OK. He also maintains a transparent #OpenStartup.

؜ @levelsio

✨ I just went on @ProductHunt Radio to chat w/ @Abadesi on: - how the startup scene changed from 5y ago to now - not building a team and the rise of automation - building around organic communities - the imposter syndrome when charging money + lots more producthunt.com/radio

Among other topics, he discusses bootstrapping vs. VC funding, the importance of building a community and how he sees the future of remote work. Listen to the full podcast here.

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That’s it for today…

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See you tomorrow!