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akshay kadam (a2k)
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there's no such thing as the best book.
the best book is the one that you find at the right time with your right skill levels. that's why recommending books is so hard.
i liked, insanely liked, $100m offers by alex hormozi.
probably the best damn business book i've ever read. granted i don't read a lot at all. maybe read like <5-10 books in my life other than school text books. but it was good enough for me to finish it.
watch his youtube channel & you'll find his advice to be great. here's one of my favorite video of his → www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHDT…
the other one i recommend reading as startup founder is traction because it teaches you marketing.
unless you make something truly innovative, you need to do marketing to get customers. this book tells you how to do marketing in ~15-20 different ways. covers everything from seo to pr.
i've read half of this book.
the other good one is the cold start problem but i guess that's for marketplaces. i have only read it first 20-40 pages but found it really insightful.
i also liked good to great by jim collins. he analysed what makes companies great through publicly available research for 5 years & found interesting insights & shared it with the world.
his podcast with tim ferriss is also a banger. must-listen.
but other than that, i'd listen to biographies. i absolutely love the founders podcast by david senra. he covers biographies.
the reason biographies are great is because you don't see a bunch of bullets. you see a story & why they made that decision so it makes the ideas stick. try listening to episodes like the polaroid one, steve jobs, jeff bezos, nike's shoe dog & you'll find yourself listening to biographies more.
david senra, the host also did the podcast which is the best podcast (i also liked jim collins x tim ferriss) i've found this year → www.joincolossus.com/episodes…
I really like founder stories too, I listen to a podcast in spanish that interviews Latin American founders and it's great. (startupeable.com)
I liked the video from alex hormozi, definitely the book could be useful.
Never heard about Traction before, really promising!
Thanks a lot!
It means when you are going to launch your product. You can only launch it once.
Yes there are plenty. Some off the top of my head ⸺
The app is brilliant 👌Love the concept & the video. Just load it faster as Ebrahim said :)
If you don't want to handle tax, then go with Paddle although it will cost a bit more than Stripe.
It sells under the brand "Paddle" so you don't have to register your own company.
With Stripe, you need to handle tax yourself. But you'll save some money :)
Wow your list is so cool. Appsumo is cool for buyers but not for creators AFAICT. I didn't know about pet housesitting. That's such a fun thing to do. Couchsurfing sounds awesome too. Not into pets 🙈 but I'd definitely do Couchsurfing someday. Your life is definitely interesting. Honestly, I think this was the answer I was looking for 😂
I think you forgot to add #4. What kind of money-saving websites recommendations do you exactly want? I know about Setapp if you use a Mac.
hehe, i'm of course on setapp! and I got its discounted subscription on stacksocial.com. they sometimes sell 50% off membership there for limited-time such as black friday. but as they grow bigger, I'm not sure they'll do it again, though.
app sumo is not always good for creators, but sometimes we have to buy something, and which case it's good.
Ahaha love SEO Bots which I already told u 😂
yeah as marc said don't overcomplicate it.
with that said, typefully uses tiptap & typefully has some cool stuff with it. i'd go with that because i react. it also has a collaboration plugin so if you need multiple people, it might be a good thing.
meta also has a new draft.js alternative called lexical. can't go wrong with meta products mostly.
lex ai writer uses prosemirror i think. used devtools to find it. you can find what your favorite project uses using devtools & then use it.
just use one & you'll find if it satisfies your need or not. replacing text editors won't take a lot of time... just make sure to store data in database in raw format,i.e, not in a way particular text editor recommends.
If you want full customizability, tiptap is amazing! You need to handle plugins and maybe even write some plugins yourself to get where you want.
If you have very simple needs, tiptap will cost you development time, so then a more batteries-included library might be better.