Jan 12, 2018
StartupResources.io — Issue #94
Another Friday! Another issue! Same old Jói.
I hope you’ve had a productive week. May your next one be even more productive thanks to Franz and the other tools in this issue!
This is the last of 4 issues sponsored by NodePing, and I’d like to thank them for helping to support the site. They have a great product, hope you show them some love!
Sponsored tool of the week 👍
Downtime is costly, NodePing Uptime Monitoring — nodeping.com
Driving traffic and capturing customers is challenging enough for a startup. If your site isn’t working right, it’s impossible. NodePing is a cost effective way to make sure your sites and services are working well so you can get on with running your business.
Articles for this week
What You May Not Know About Bootstrapping (Research Backed) — abdoriani.com
Four interesting findings on bootstrapping from research that you may not know about. I’ve known the author, Abdo Riani, for a while, and as an entrepreneur and research scholar, he has studied and tested many conventional and unconventional bootstrapping strategies. If you’re looking for further resources on bootstrapping, he has put together a bootstrapping package.
I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how. — hackernoon.com
This is a very interesting read. The whole thing is hypothetical, but very plausible. TL;DR: To keep your users safe, you may want to think about collecting passwords, credit card numbers and similarly sensitive information using a page without any 3rd party code.
Know Your Customer: How to Build and Quantify Buyer Personas — CrankWheel — crankwheel.com
How well do you know your customer? This was a popular piece on the CrankWheel blog last week, it covers how to better understand your customers using buyer personas.
Your 90-Day Digital Marketing Plan — opscalendar.com
This looks like an eBook that requires registration, but all the content is actually available in 5 articles linked from this post. Pretty good resource if you’re starting out marketing a new product.
Tool of the week
Franz — a free messaging app for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram and more — meetfranz.com
Franz was mentioned a long time ago in this newsletter, but now that I’ve been using it for the last few weeks I just have to feature it again. I used to run 2–3 different messaging apps most of the time on my Mac, as well as keeping various browser tabs open for messaging, and now I just run Franz. It works very well and has a free version.
Tools I actually used recently
CopyChar — ⌘+C — Copy special characters to your clipboard
This is a standby website for me, easier than using my Mac’s built-in symbols thing. Just type copychar.cc into your browser and get a nice big grid of special characters to copy.
Tools discovered recently
SendOvernightMail | Send overnight mail, online or offline. — www.sendovernightmail.com
This seems like it might be useful for folks in the US or needing to send hardcopy documents to the US: You can send PDFs of contracts, applications, bills, invoices, or anything anywhere in the United States, using USPS Priority Mail. The service prints and mails your documents for you.
Listly | Web page (HTML) to Excel in seconds. No more Parsing code. — listly.io
This is like a simpler-to-use (but somewhat less powerful) version of Web Scraper, which I use regularly. It’s a Chrome extension that lets you scrape data off websites, either while logged into the website or on a regular basis.
Turbo | Build Fully Featured Web Apps — www.turbo360.co
Turbo is another no-code web app development platform, that also incorporates various pluggable components and a developer community for when you need a bit of custom stuff. Free for one production site.
Pixpa | Portfolio Websites & Client Proofing for Creative Pros. — www.pixpa.com
Here’s a specialized website builder for photographers, artists, designers etc. Starts at $60/year or $6/month, free trial.
That’s it for this issue
I hope you found something in this issue that brings value to you. Can you think of any favorite tools or resources you first discovered here?
If you discover new tools that you’re finding useful, please email them to me (just hit reply) or join our Slack community and share them on the #resources channel there.
Have a great weekend!
Cheers,
Jói
