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Startups succeed when they solve
\u201cA genuine intention to solve a problem\u201d is the best startup strategy you can have.
— Al Caan (@caan_al) January 15, 2022
Do not lose sight of the intention behind your service, as you scale up.
Choose your customers
$600 Client \u2014 Complain, complain, complain
— Will Cannon (@iamwillcannon) September 12, 2021
$60,000 Client \u2014 \u201cMoney sent, thanks\u201d
Resist the lure of new ideas when the real work begins:
Beginner\u2019s Dilemma:
— Barrett O'Neill (@barrettjoneill) February 6, 2022
New endeavors are so challenging that other options appear an easier route to success.
If you choose to switch, rather than iterate and optimize, you\u2019ll always be a beginner.
And things will always seem hard.
Consider all paths and points of
90% of new startups fail.
— Chris Munn (@chrisxmunn) February 4, 2022
Consider buying a business instead.
Do they lack self-control? Or are deeper factors at play?
Let’s unpack the psychology of screens 👇🏼 🪡
To answer these questions, we need to take a step back and ask a bigger question first:
What motivates us?
What drives us to do anything at all?
Self-determination theory explains that humans are motivated by three things:
• autonomy
• competency
• relatedness
We crave these experiences just like our bodies crave protein, carbs, and fats.
Read more here: https://t.co/KhcP9iDlsI

If we don’t eat right, our bodies break down.
In the same way, if we don’t feed our psyches with autonomy, competency, and relatedness, our mental health suffers.
Unfortunately, many kids don't get enough of these essential experiences.
As @nireyal says in his book, Indistractable:
“School, where kids spend most of their waking hours, is in many ways the antithesis of a place where kids feel competence, autonomy, and relatedness.”
Thread 🧵👇
1️⃣ Wicked Backgrounds
Create beautiful SVG backgrounds for your UI designs.
2️⃣ Inline Text Editor
The perfect WYSIWYG editor with the cleanest UI and really easy-to-use features to provide a simple and modern JavaScript rich text
3️⃣ Triangify
https://t.co/uL81JeAZnV is a tool for generating low poly triangle patterns that can be used as wallpapers and website
4️⃣ Design Vault
A curated library of screenshots & UI interaction patterns from the world's best digital products.
Gain insights, explore trends, and understand competitors and best
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1️⃣ Lapa Ninja
The best landing page design inspiration from around the web. Lapa Ninja is created to help designers find inspiration, learn and improve design skills. The contents are selected from the best designs, and daily updated.
https://t.co/PDsqFU39on

2️⃣ Top Shopify Plus Stores
Browse 200+ Home Page Designs from Top Shopify Plus Stores
https://t.co/hW3adG5js3

3️⃣ Good Landing Page
Get inspired by these brilliant landing page design examples. Including screens from behind signup/paywalls.
https://t.co/FMnxJz4T46

4️⃣ SaaS Landing Page
SaaS Landing Page showcases the best landing page examples created by top-class SaaS companies. Get ideas and inspirations for your next design
Let's build a thread with the best startup threads and articles.
I'll start:
1/ Fundamentals
Your startup is like a cult. You have to convert your team, investors, customers, and friends to be your evangelists.
@DavidSacks article on how to form a
2/ Growth is possible only with lazer focus.
1000 tasks fall on you every day. You have to ignore them and concentrate on improving main metrics.
@lennysan article about choosing a Northstar metric.
https://t.co/ujQEuwnDE9
in general Future by @a16z is full of great advice
3/ Legal aspects and costs in a startup by @dunkhippo33
https://t.co/BTqBC5zn5S
She also has great threads about
• customer acquisition https://t.co/ibDi3LxVi7
• PMF
Today I want to talk about the legal aspects of startups. How to set up? How to think about legal costs?
— Elizabeth Yin (@dunkhippo33) March 2, 2021
Fun!
Read on >>
4/ Community building is a new black in product discovery and customer acquisition.
@gregisenberg on how to start a community from 0
https://t.co/Nu9mjwNmcy
His article about finding startup ideas through unbundling Reddit is amazing
I\u2019ve help build internet communities that have generated hundreds of millions of members
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) May 8, 2021
The most often question I get asked is:
But Greg - how do I build a community from scratch?!
Here's what I usually say:
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1️⃣ Copy My IP
Copy your IP with a single click
Simple tool to copy your current public IP address into your clipboard with just one click.
https://t.co/oqVZbJRlvc

2️⃣ Simplescraper
A web scraper that's fast, free, and simple to use. Scrape website data and table data in seconds
https://t.co/JuNqnNfWCe

3️⃣ Site Palette
Extract colors from any website
Free browser extension that generates color palettes.
https://t.co/ZM5XOT1Sco

4️⃣ Amino: Live CSS Editor
Live CSS Editor. Write custom CSS for any website and see your changes in real-time.
https://t.co/HSy2VRo6Ah

When I shared this, I got many questions around the tools used.
So, today I share 7 types of NoCode tools along with:
1. Specific use case each solves
2. Real examples
3. Alternatives
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1/ Marketing websites
A) Tools: @unicornplatform, @umsohq
B) Use cases
- You can simply drag & drop elements onto a page
- Build a marketing website in less than 60 mins
- Easily edit your marketing copy & communication to customers

1/ Marketing website (contd.)
C) Example
- We built our entire website of https://t.co/mdQsG3XKpg containing over 50+ pages on Unicorn platform
D) Alternatives
- @carrd
- @webflow (covered later)

2/ Database storage and information websites
A) Tool: @airtable
B) Use cases
- Advanced and more UI-friendly excel
- Easily collect data using an intuitive form
- Neatly present the data on your website in intuitive layouts

2/ DB & Information websites (contd.)
C) Example
- To help individuals laid off due to COVID, we built a page listing those who could be hired: https://t.co/QRmyRdLvWk
D) Alternatives
- Tools like Sheet2site, Table2site work well with Airtable to make quick websites
