Feb 9, 2021

Is this one of the most unique landing pages?

By Sam Dickie • Issue #8 • View online

Hey 👋

I’m Sam and welcome to my once-a-month newsletter. Each month I share the latest digital products, fascinating articles and resources from some of the best new and established online creatives.

What’s new

Firstly, a huge shout out to everyone that complete last months ‘Get to know you’ form. If you didn’t get the opportunity click here. I want to take this opportunity to learn more about you, and what simulates and drives that curious mind of yours so I can provide you with more value each month.

Last month I made some much-needed design tweaks to my personal site and managed to get a piece of content out - not bad for a January.

This month, I’m working on something big (well, to me) which I will share in next months newsletter. If you fancy a sneak peek then click here 👩🏽‍🎤 p.s please don’t share yet!

Are you working on a new product or side project and want to share it on this newsletter? Hit reply. I want to use this newsletters distribution to showcase your work.

Onto last months numbers:

📈 January: Subs 2k+ 🔥 | Open Rate 41% | CTR 34%

Right, let’s get to it - time for this months roundup below 👇

📓 Articles

Is this one of the most unique landing pages?

I haven’t felt the urge to talk so much about a products landing page since Superhuman or Pitch, until now. In this post I discuss a unique approach from new consumer-based mobile and desktop app called Clay. You wont be disappointed.

www.samdickie.me • Share

How Clubhouse built it's Network Effect?

Clubhouse is growing at record speed, but how exactly? Malav Warke explores the 11 Growth Hacks required to pull a network effect like Clubhouse. These tactics are also applicable to marketplaces, communities, social platforms and plenty of other models.

If you’re on Clubhouse then give me a follow. If you need an invite I have a few spare. Just hit reply. 🎟

Some more great reads about Clubhouse can be found here and here.

malavwarke.substack.com • Share

Operating System Business Idea

I’ve seen a few OS Notion products cropping up lately, but the most successful one has to be the “Newsletter OS” created by Janel. She reported having made over $30K in just a few weeks. Pat Walls discusses how this OS concept can be applied to a number of topics & industries using just Notion and Gumroad to take payment.

For a list of Notion OS products check out Luc Meijer’s tweet thread.

patwalls.com • Share

Proof of X

I just discovered Julian Lehr’s blog and it’s incredible. In this post, Julian discussed that social networks at their core are primarily about one thing: Building social capital through signalling. He highlights a number of somewhat subliminal signalling clues from popular apps I never considered before. I love his example of the Patagonia vest 👌

julian.digital • Share

Here's How I Bootstrapped to 10k MRR

Startups are hard, bootstrapping is harder! Here’s how Jon Yongfook bootstrapped his product to $10k MRR over the course of 2 years after attempting the 12 startups in 12 months challenge with little success.

A great takeaway from shipping 12 products in 12 months - “Learning to ship consistently is a good muscle to exercise”.

www.bannerbear.com • Share

🔗 Links

Road to Scale

There is soo much content out there full of advice on all stages of the startup journey - where do you start? Bram Kanstein’s has curated a knowledge library (300+ content items) for every stage of your startup journey. From idea 💡to scaling up 🚀

roadtoscale.com • Share

The latest updates for popular no-code tools!

It’s tricky keeping up with all the new features and improvements for your No-code stack. Until now - Parker Thompson has done it all for you. His new site includes the latest updates from popular no-code tools like Webflow, Zapier, Airtable, Glide, Adalo, and Bubble.

www.nocodereport.com • Share

Teardown of Visualize Value Landing Page

This video goes into some top of mind opportunities for a brand you all know and love, Visualize Value. I have been binge-watching Blake Emal landing page teardowns all week and find them fascinating. There are super quick and succinct and provide some great tips to improve your sites UX.

www.creatorkit.in • Share

How To Design EVERYTHING if you don't know ANYTHING

I absolutely love this short video by Garry Tan. I’ve watched it three times and taken a ton of notes. Gary shares his 5 key principles so that you can start designing anything, anywhere, regardless of whether or not you’ve ever done it before. Must watch for anyone creating or involved in the creation of products.

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📱 Products

Super Mega Pack

Mackenzie Child has gone and done it again! He’s launched yet another incredible Webflow product. This time it’s a series of products all wrapped up into his ‘Super Mega Pack’. This Notion pack is made to level up your Webflow workflow. The pack includes colour palettes, fonts, inspiration, tools and so much more.

www.supermegapack.co • Share

Your 'Build in Public' Showcase.

Jelmer Pé is working on a new tool for online creators. Sneak Peek is a landing page builder helping you to show and validate ideas you haven’t built yet, in public. It include pre-built blocks you can drag in, analytics, payment processing and domain included.

sneak-peek.io • Share

Notion Profile Illustration

Looking for one of those slick looking Notion bio pic illustrations for your site or social? For $50 bucks it’s yours. Send a picture of yourself and start rocking your new Notion esk bio pic.

flurly.com • Share

Millions - $1,000,000 Sweepstakes

A startup called Millions has raised a $3 million to give away free money through its Twitter account. Everyone who follows @Millions on Twitter has a chance to Win $1,000,000. Pick 6 numbers, if your numbers draw you win. Is this just a clever acquisition technique to later roll into a bigger product? Who knows, but I will be following this closely.

millions.app • Share

All of your chats in one app

How does this sound - One unified inbox for all your instant messaging? Beeper is a single app to chat on iMessage, WhatsApp, and 13 other chat networks. You can search, snooze, or archive messages.

www.beeperhq.com • Share

⭐️ Community Showcase

Notion PM

This week I’m showcasing Vincenzo Di Cosmo’s Notion PM Kit. I have been using it for the last few weeks personally and haven’t looked back since.

As a Product Manager at a startup studio, I’m working with a variety of different founders and their products all at different stages in there journey, typically using a number of different tools. The Notion PM Kit allows me to consolidate all these tools into Notion, allowing me to effectively manage each project consistently and efficiently with a suite of templates. Check it out.

For $12 off use code ‘SAM25’ at checkout.

www.slashmint.com • Share

🐦 Tweet of the month

I’m not one to idolise billionaires purely for their wealth status but I do find it fascinating how they achieved their vast wealth. Greg Isenberg shared some great lessons in a thread. My favourite:

You can’t build great products without being “at one” with the niche you’re building it for. It’s almost impossible. Deeply understand your niche or expect disappointments.

GREG ISENBERG

@gregisenberg

I interviewed 5 billionaires this week

I asked them to share their lessons learned on startups, life and entrepreneurship:

Here's what they told me:

3:30 PM - 23 Jan 2021

⚡️ Flashback

I’ll leave you with this 1977 video titled ‘Powers Of Ten’ where you will begin an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by a lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports you to the outer edges of the universe and back. Pretty mind-blowing footage.

Powers of Ten™ (1977)

That’s it for this month!

If you made it this far, hit reply and tell me what you thought of this newsletter. What did you love? what didn’t you like so much? I read every response 👀

Until next month,

Sam | @thisdickie 👨‍💻

P.S you can check view all my past content in this Notion repo.

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By Sam Dickie

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