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The book does a great job of mixing methodologies and your own life experiences to come up with product ideas that are unique for you to pursue.

When it comes to sending newsletters to your audience, MailChimp is the de-facto standard tool that you can get started for free. Because MailChimp is integrated with many other services, you won’t run into compatibility issues.

You can find amazing quality photos on Unsplash that you can use in your commercial projects. Be sure to thank photographers who make their photos available to use for free!

While it is important to study the fundamental theories of how humans process the visual information, many makers just need some actionable advice they can get today to launch something next week. Refactoring UI gives actionable advice on how to improve your UI with visuals on what to do and what not to do.

Refactoring UI: The Book

If you a maker looking to connect with other makers, join Makerlog community. Once you join, add your product and write your daily completed tasks to stay on the streak of your product development.

This step-by-step guide walk you through the marketing copy for landing paes from top to bottom, rather than giving you random bits oc copywriting advice here and there. Follow through the guide and find out how you can improve your landing page.

My step-by-step guide to landing pages that convert

#buildinginpublic is a recent trend to openly build and share what you are working on, and build your own community of users and the supporters. The free eBook guides you through the process of starting how you can also participate in "building in public".

Amazon copywriting tips with visuals to make it easy to see them in the context of websites.

The rise of platforms that feature video content probably made you wonder if you should concentrate your effort in producing more videos and leave blogging behind. The article covers many merits to both sides, and helps in coming up with your own conclusion.

Blogging vs. Video: When Does Each Format Work Best?

Speed is the key when it comes to launching a landing page for your next product idea. Super lets you turn your Notion documents into a website that is optimized for web traffics.

If you want to acquire a great domain name that is about to expire, you can’t just wait until after expiration and expect to get them the normal way. The DropCatch lets you enter into auctions for expiring domains so you have higher chance of securing them.

With the rise of gTLDs and it’s increasing positive sentiment for business use, finding a one word domain name is an open opportunities for new startups. Just browse through free listing for available domains and you will be surprised with how many quality one word domains are still available for purchase.

One Word Domains

Plausible is an modern alternative to Google Analytics, it provides a simple analytics minus the clutter you’ll never look at. It let you configure DNS so that the Plausible script can be loaded from *stats.yourdomain.com* which helps overcome browser extensions and privacy setting that blocks third-party scripts. The fixed pricing for unlimited websites makes it easy for serial makers to use the service.

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Even if we strive to design a custom landing page, it helps a lot to learn from those who came before us. Not only they list landing pages, they also feature other page design types such as pricing, about us, blog, etc.

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If you want to spice up your border radius, then try the Fancy Border Radius Generator which lets you create CSS-only organic circular shapes.

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TweetPik is a perfect tool to capture your customer testimonials on Twitter permanently as an image and embed in your website under Testimonials section.

DrawKit offers different styles of illustrations that are designed to be customized to fit your branding. Their illustrations are grouped by a theme such as Finance, Restaurants, Work from Home, Education, BLM, etc.

If you are planning to build an app, I recommend you to take advantage of the wealth of communitu knowledge. Many successful makers share their success and failures so you can learn from them. You can also submit your application and participate in open business development where you share weekly progress. This is a perfect way to start building interest in your app vs waiting until MVP is done and fail miserably at a launch.

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Are you tired of only seeing pale white or *blue* human stock illustrations? Humaaans let you customize human graphics with fine-grain control to best represent the "people" the way you want to.

unDraw provides a collection of cohesive open-source illustrations especially useful for use in your marketing websites and presentations. You can easily change the accent color of illustrations before you download, and customize them even further with SVG format.

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The trend reports are invaluable for digital product makers and are purposefully short and succinct without fluffs. You can read half the report for free and receive new content by subscribing to the newsletter.


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The Rework was published in 2010 and yet the advice still holds true and more relavant in 2021. The book will help you focus on what really matters the most, and not waste your time in traditional business rituals. The way they recommend you to work is how people finally woken up to realize in 2020.

This handbook is a series of articles about the art of growth marketing (and not growth "hacking") you can read online for free. The intro starts off with a profound statement that unprofitable paid ads are still the way to "ignite the fire".

The lack of fluff in content makes it easy to scan and use as a reference.

You’ve probably seen makers selling digital products on Gumroad. The book highlights how successful creators were able to turn their knowledge and skills into digital products.

Gumroad Creator Spotlight Archive

This book is a compilation of [Naval](https://twitter.com/naval "Naval")'s wisdom spilled around over Twitter, Podcasts, Essays, etc. Naval is an successful entrepreneur worth learning from. The PDF is free to download or you can buy the paperback on Amazon.

This is an easy to consume guide on what to do and what not to do to optimize your landing pages by Unbounce. It's very visual, succinct, and provides a checklist at the end.

How to Optimize Your SaaS Landing Pages

If you are curious about how to get started with making your very first digital product, The 14 Day Product Challenge by Gumroard is for you. The challenge breaks down the process of creating a digital product from the ideation to the launch day by day.

The most notable part was to focus on sharing a tiny slice of your existing knowledge instead of spending a lot of time doing a research. That way, you can get to the finish line in 14 days and later expand on them if you get a momentum.

The 14 Day Product Challenge

MAKE book gives you important indie product development lessons and the story behind the succesful launch of Nomad List. The book itself was written only after taking pre-orders and openly reviewwed by early purchasers.

The book is broken down in 9 sections:

- Idea
- Build
- Launch
- Grow
- Monetize
- Automate
- Exit
- Ethics
- Homework

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