Superpower Tools 🛠️
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Vedika Jain, part of the Weekend Fund team, believes that the “rise of no code is a sub-theme in an even larger movement: tools that give knowledge workers superpowers.” In the past, employees used the tools handed down to them by management. Now, employees have the ability to choose whatever tools serve them best. This freedom has lead to bottom-up adoption of new tech and increased positive productivity at work. Vedika splits these new “superpower tools” into three categories. 1) Tools that open up access such as Airtable and Webflow. 2) Tools that make teams work more in sync such as Figma and Front. 3) Tools that automate workflows such as Zapier, Integromat and Parabola. If you’re building superpowers, Weekend Fund would love to hear from you. Read the full post.
Source: Vedika Jain, The rise of superpower tech
😺 Products of the Day
July 8, 2020
🥇 Braid: Group accounts and debit card for shared expenses.
🥈 Repixel 2.0: Retarget someone else’s website visitors.
🥉 Standard Resume 2.0: Effortlessly make a modern resume.
🚀 Maker News
SaaS Learnings
Two years ago, Pierre de Wulf quit his job to build a profitable SaaS business with Kevin Sahin. The first project achieved $600 MRR after one year and the second $75k after within 12 months. In this thread, he conveys all his valuable learnings and insights, which include:
It takes time to build a SaaS business,
Get the product-market fit right,
Talk to users early & get feedback,
Focus on what works,
Give excellent customer support, and
Limit payment endpoints.
Lastly, Pierre advises others to apply to bootstrapper-friendly funds. You get financial relief, while still in control of your company. Moreover, you learn tons from the community and the tutors. And despite the last two exhausting years, he doesn’t regret “choosing freedom over comfort.” Read the thread.
NoCode Marketplaces
Yoroomie has released his guide to NoCode marketplaces. The book contains his extensive learnings and insights and will help Makers build and manage a NoCode marketplace. It covers business models and types as well as the available platforms and their features. Best of all, it’s free. Get it here.
Audience First
Leandro Pinter shares a simple but valuable guide on how to approach business ideas. Always start with the audience, as they can validate your idea. Find a problem they are encountering. Then build the product or service which solves it. As Arvid Kahl writes “if you go problem-first, you always have to guess where the audience for that problem may be. Audience-first surfaces problems by default.” Read the conversation.
Source: Leandro Pinter
💭 Afterthought
To finish the day, Alex Lieberman presents a valuable quote from Sarah Goff-Dupont. It immediately reminds me of what Bill Gurley said in his McCombs Business School commencement speech. Share your best practices or anything of value with your peers and don’t worry about proprietary knowledge-knowledge sharing - “sharing pays off in multiples.” Take care and see you tomorrow.
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