Initiator Creator - Issue #128

​By Saurabh Y. // 27 May 2023

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Developer

​Formatters, linters, and compilers: Oh my! - Github

An overview of how those three kinds of static analysis tools work in the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem.

​Brex's Prompt Engineering Guide - Github

It covers the history around LLMs as well as strategies, guidelines, and safety recommendations for working with and building programmatic systems on top of large language models, like OpenAI's GPT-4.

​Memory Allocation - Sam who

Allocators exist because it's not enough to have memory available, you need to use it effectively. We will visually explore how simple allocators work.

​Bytebase: Database schema change and version control - Bytebase

Bytebase offers a web-based collaboration workspace to help DBAs and Developers manage the database development lifecycle.

​Baseline Introduced At Google I/O 2023 - Web dev

Baseline helps you to see, at a glance, whether a feature or API is safe to use in your site or web applications.

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Designer

​Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles & Unreal Engine - Nils Baker

Combining the Google 3D tiles and ChatGPT APIs, I harnessed the capabilities of Unreal Engine to create an immersive experience that pushes the boundaries of what’s possible. Leveraging the flexibility of blueprints in Unreal, I seamlessly integrated the ChatGPT API, enabling users to enter prompts and receive dynamic responses.

​The Hawthorne Effect or Observer Bias in User Research - NN/g

Individuals often modify their behavior if they know they are being observed. That phenomenon became known as the Hawthorne effect or the observer bias. We can mitigate this effect by building rapport, designing natural tasks, and spending more time with study participants.

​Invisible Interfaces: the UI of the future doesn’t have a screen - UX Collective

It isn’t about what we can see, but how our experience can be borderless.

​How to Design Fonts: Has Blaze Type created the most accessible typography guide? - Creative Boom

French type design foundry Blaze Type has put together a straightforward guide to demystify typography and make the practice accessible to everyone.

​Don't design for your users - Adobe Design

There’s a much more intentional way to design and build products

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Entrepreneur

​The AI Startup Litmus Test - Nfx

Too many people had spent too many years building and investing in web3 technologies instead of businesses. We see a similar pattern emerging in generative AI today.

​The Best Brands Don’t Prescribe Behavior, They Create ‘Permission’ - BrandingMag

Make no mistake; in the business of brand building, it’s your people that have the power to both champion and destroy your brand.

​How Ramp builds product - Lenny's Newsletter

Geoff Charles, VP of Product, on Ramp's unique culture of velocity, efficiency, and empowerment.

​Hype: The Enemy of Early Stage Returns - Substack

There is an inconvenient truth in early-stage venture: Hyped sectors consistently lead to meager outcomes. Outsized returns on the other hand happen where you least expect them.

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Marketer

​The startup ecosystem needs more marketing investors - MKT1

To succeed, startups must have a great product, founders, and win on go-to-market. Yet founders don’t have this skill set. Investors don’t have this skill set. And marketers don’t invest—less than 1% of investors are marketers.

​Cracking the Monetization Code: Unlocking Growth for High-Friction Products - The FishmanAF Newsletter

When Pricing, Value Proposition, and Acquisition Channels Collide for Success (or Failure)

​The definitive guide to sales compensation - ICONIQ

A holistic and well-executed go-to-market strategy is one of the key pillars that drives sustainable, long-term growth for software companies. Regardless of your organization’s growth motion, effective go-to-market teams represent the voice of the customer and serve as critical feedback loops for product and engineering.

​Typeform’s viral growth – and its disruption? - OpenView

Grows organically with 80% of new customers signing up from word-of-mouth or product virality and the business isn’t showing signs of slowing down.

​Content Strategy for Horizontal SaaS - Animalz

For the Zapiers, Webflows and Airtables of the world, content is more than marketing: it is acquisition, activation, and retention. Here’s how we think about content marketing for horizontal SaaS.

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Interesting Read

​What Know-It-Alls Don’t Know, or the Illusion of Competence - Pocket

Ever been so confident of something that you were shocked to find out you were wrong?

​4 Reasons You’re not Taking Action (and what to do about it) - Becoming Minimalist

The way we take action is by first realizing that we’re not, and then going deeper to figure out why.

​The web's most important decision - The History of the Web

Thirty years ago, Tim Berners-Lee and CERN gave the world a gift. After some internal discussions, CERN stamped (quite literally) its approval on a document, relinquishing all intellectual property rights to the World Wide Web and entering it into the public domain.

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Community Submissions

If you like to share a project or article with the rest of the readers then please DM me at @ICforpreneurs or hit reply

​Generative AI allows TikTok creators to reimagine history - Rest of World A viral trend imagines alternate timelines in which Western imperial nations never came to power.

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Outro

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