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Initiator Creator - Issue #121
By Saurabh Y. // 4 March 2023
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Developer
The 6 Types of Tech Debt. And How You Can Leverage Them - Reforge
One of the most common points of tension between product and engineering is prioritizing technical debt. Why, when, and how to handle tech debt can be particular challenging questions for an organization and individual teams
Sandworm: For easy auditing & sandboxing for JS dependencies - Sandworm
Sandworm statically & dynamically analyses over 2M JavaScript packages to offer zero day, real time protection against malicious scripts.
DND Kit – a modern drag and drop toolkit for React - DND Kit
A lightweight, performant, accessible and extensible drag & drop toolkit for React.
You don't need Lodash or Underscore - Github
If you want your project to require fewer dependencies, and you know your target browser clearly, then you may not need Lodash/Underscore.
Trigger.dev: Developer-first open source Zapier alternative - Github
Trigger.dev is an open source platform that makes it easy for developers to create event-driven background tasks directly in their code.
Designer
Behind the scenes: international keyboard shortcuts - Figma
These preset key combinations are essential for efficient, intuitive workflows and have a host of accessibility benefits—such as making it easier to access menus and functions.
The power of localization in user experience - WIX-UX
How adapting our products to different locations led to better business results and happier users.
Half of Consumers Consider a Company's Website Design Crucial to Their Opinion of that Brand - PR Newswire
Fifty percent of consumers believe that a company website's design is important to the success of their overall brand. Businesses should update their website designs frequently to keep up with changing customer expectations and give a positive first impression for first-time visitors.
10 Survey Challenges and How to Avoid Them - NN/g
Response biases make it difficult to create good surveys. Follow these tips to counteract 10 of the major survey response biases and improve your survey data.
Entrepreneur
Your MVP doesn’t need to be perfect; it needs to be stage appropriate - TechCrunch
The key is that every MVP a company builds needs to be laser focused on answering a very particular question. If it does anything more than that, it’s time and effort wasted.
How Webflow found product-market fit - Unusual
A complete case study on how Webflow launched the no-code movement
Meaningful metrics: How data sharpened the focus of product teams - Duolingo
how do you decide on the metrics that matter? And how do you advocate for an organization to adopt new metrics? And what happens if existing metrics stop moving?
Getting free users to convert - Indiehackers
Regardless of where you stand on these strategies, it's essential to optimize your products to get users to convert.
Why You Should Send a Weekly Summary Email - Medium
At its core, the weekly email has two headings with 3–5 short bullet points each: achievements this week and priorities next week. Under the former, you list the 3–5 most important things you got done this week, under the latter, the 3–5 most important things you want to get done the following week.
5 examples of product-led SEO - Kevin Indig
In this post, Kevin highlight 5 examples of product-led growth and how they are different from each other.
Your Guide To Product-Led Sales - OpenView
While product-led sales sounds great on paper, it’s much more complex behind the scenes.
Proven ways to refine your marketing copy - Ghost
Is it just us, or is it often harder to write a one-liner for your marketing than it is to write an entire newsletter?
Content Research: 9 Actionable Tips to Master It - Ahrefs
The first step to your content’s success is how much research you put into it.
Interesting Read
How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain - Quanta Magazine
Feelings of loneliness prompt changes in the brain that further isolate people from social contact.
The psychology of regret: how inaction affects our sense of self - Ness labs
The regrets that will trouble us the most are not the mistakes or errors we made, but rather the actions we failed to take.
How to Get Out of Your Own Way at Work - Every
Exploring perspectives and tools that will help inspire more of easy days and fewer of the debilitating ones, drawing inspiration from W. Timothy Gallwey’s book The Inner Game of Work.
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How to Fall in Love with Hard Work - Nick Wignall It’s perhaps best described as a manifesto for the warrior-artist, the person who isn’t afraid to get their hands dirty doing the work that matters most to them. |
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