Jul 8, 2020

Do you know how each of these well-known tech businesses started life?

By Sam Dickie • Issue #1 • View online

Glad to have you on board 👨‍🚀

This might be my first personal newsletter - but it isn’t my first rodeo with newsletters, so I’m really looking forward to having free-reign with this. Hope you enjoy the ride too!

Let me provide you with a super quick recap on what you can expect in this edition and what’s coming to your inbox in the future.

🔗 Links to the best content I have read this month from around the web. Covering technology, business, automation, software products and online tools.

🛠 The latest no-code tools I have spotted.

📚 Awesome resources I have created, found and personally used.

🧙🏻‍♂️ Tips, tricks and hacks I have found or personally created.

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

Articles

Do you know how each of these well-known tech businesses started life as?

I guarantee you won’t know them all 🤯 Believe it or not, these multi-million/billion-dollar startups started life from modest beginnings.

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Can I Build an Online Shoe Retailer with No Shoes?

Turns out you can - or ‘could’ should I say. This has to be one of the best examples of a concierge MVP.

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Links

‎How reCAPTCHA was born and why

This has to be one of the most interesting podcasts episodes i’ve listened to for a while. While it might sound boring the story of how the CAPTCHA form was created certainly isn’t.

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Ideas aren't cheap

If ideas are so easy, why are most business ideas so bad? Business ideas are observations paired with hunches. Great thought piece by Justin Jackson.

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How to

How to Create a Minimalist, Dark Themed Notion Dashboard

I created a quick YouTube tutorial showing you how to create a slick dark-themed Notion dashboard in a matter of minutes. I still use this layout today and love it.

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My Complete Guide to Smoke Test Techniques

A definitive list of modern, alternative ‘Smoke Test’ techniques to help test early signs of desirability with your target market.

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Products

Almanac

Discover thousands of open source docs to copy & customise. There as some fantastic free to download templates from industry professionals.

almanac.io • Share

Plain.Land

Painland is where you find problems, firsthand insights, and inspiration to launch your profitable online business. Love the concept and the website.

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Personal Update

I just spent the last 3 months in lockdown learning Webflow. It’s my third attempt 😅 and I finally think I’ve cracked it. I still have a lot to learn but really enjoying it. Check out my new personal site below.

I created also created a ‘Webflow Resource list’ on Notion which you can access here. Let me know if I’m missing anything.

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Sam | @thisdickie 👨‍💻

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By Sam Dickie

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.

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