Bootstrapping

This page teaches you to write and design websites that convert visitors into customers.

I walk you through the template I use for today's fastest-growing startups.

I cover how to structure your page, write copy, and maximize purchase conversion. It's everything you'd want to know.

Growth Handbook: How to write landing pages

Two indie SaaS founders—one just getting off the ground, and one with an established profitable business—invite you to join their weekly chats.



Software Social

Welcome to the bookshelf I wish I had when I started out. I’ve compiled this list over many years. You will find both classics and new releases here – all of which I have read and applied to building, running, and eventually selling FeedbackPanda.

Bootstrapper’s Bookshelf

A video crash course on building, launching, and growing your first SaaS company. It covers a wide range of topics in only a few hours of content from some of the most knowledgeable speakers in SaaS like Jason Cohen, Steli Efti, Patrick McKenzie, and Rob Walling. Topics include: idea validation, positioning, sales and growth, customer success, customer support, metrics and churn, and founder mental health.

Building Your First SaaS: The Ultimate Crash Course

No More Mondays peels back the curtain to see what it takes to build an indie business. Following the journey of indie hackers Dan Rowden and James McKinven as they navigate building a micro-SaaS studio and a podcast respectively.

No More Mondays

Developer

If you’re a self-taught engineer or bootcamp grad, you owe it to yourself to learn computer science. Thankfully, you can give yourself a world-class CS education without investing years and a small fortune in a degree program 💸.

Teach Yourself Computer Science

High-intensity ⚡ code tutorials to help you build & ship your app faster. Subscribe for new videos every week covering intermediate to advanced lessons about JavaScript, Flutter, Firebase, and modern app development.

Fireship

Backend dev focused educational YouTube Channel

Join me as we discuss various software engineering topics with examples and add fun elements to them. We always try to learn by example here in this educational Youtube channel which we believe is the right way to learn. I love Software engineering (especially the backend) and I strive to be a better software engineer every day. Join me on this journey and let us learn together. 

 Hussein Nasser

CTO Life

Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters.

Shape Up is for product development teams who struggle to ship. If you’ve thought to yourself “Why can’t we ship like we used to?” or “I never have enough time to think about strategy,” then this book can help. You’ll learn language and techniques to define focused projects, address unknowns, and increase collaboration and engagement within your team.

Shape Up

Ryan Singer talks through the process of 'Getting Real' and how work happens at Basecamp

How We Work

This is the spoken word version of my essay, Choose Boring Technology. I have largely come to terms with it and the reality that I will never escape its popularity.

I gave this most recently at the WikiMedia Foundation’s developer conference, where Scott Ananian called it “how to be old, for young people.”

Choose Boring Technology

This course will help you understand more about the CTO role and the leadership skills you need to deliver an impact in senior tech roles.

Within 9 modules and >100 micro lectures, we provide you with a fascinating introduction to what really matters in the CTO role.

CTO Academy

The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application.

A must read for anyone building a web app. Getting Real is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software design. This isn't a technical book or a design tutorial, it's a book of ideas. Anyone working on a web app - including entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, executives, or marketers - will find value and inspiration in this book.

Getting Real

Design Resources

Build your own amazing illustrations.

Using our awesome gradients and hand drawn sketch components.

IRA Design

Create Screenshots and browser mockups quickly

Pika

Resources for levelling up your career / freelance game

Career / Freelance

Course and book by Jonathan Stark to help freelance stop swapping time for money and scale their earnings with the value they provide.

- Value based pricing
- Scope creep
- Pitching
- Proposal writing


Hourly Billing is Nuts

For most software developers, coding is the fun part. The hard bits are dealing with clients, peers, and managers, staying productive, achieving financial security, keeping yourself in shape, and finding true love. This book is here to help.

Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual

Before I recently quit my high-paying job to work for myself, I was the youngest Senior Director in Walmart Engineering. I had the most promotions in the shortest amount of time and I climbed 6 levels in 4 years. In this video course, I've packaged everything I learned so you can get ahead quickly in your engineering career.

Timeless Career Advice for Software Engineers

Web3

Learning resources curated by a real team currently heads-down in the space

Getting into Web3: A Guide for Developers

I publish a combination of to-the-point tutorials, live coding demos, and interviews focusing on modern web development, Web3, DeFi, cloud computing, and GraphQL.

Nader Dabit

Every day more and more people are transiting to Web3. The demand for developers is increasing as Crypto use grows at an exponential rate. Skills in blockchain development are among the most in-demand in the tech industry. It's difficult to find a proper/clean roadmap and resource to get started with Web3 because it's so new.

In this article, I'm going to give you a roadmap and some of the best resources on the internet that will definitely help you get your first job in Web3.

The Complete Roadmap and Resources to Become a Web3 Developer in 2022

Learn how to build on Ethereum; the superpowers and the gotchas.

When you are ready to test your knowledge, speed run Ethereum

Speed Run Ethereum

Want to build on web3? Nader Dabit identifies the building blocks of the web3 technology stack in an introductory guide

Defining the web3 stack

This course is here to get you through that initial learning curve and frustrating lack of answered questions and good documentation.

You will be building a ticketing and proof-of-attendance service complete with wallet QR code scanning. Very useful indeed!

This course is here to get you through that initial learning curve and frustrating lack of answered questions and good documentation.

You will be building a ticketing and proof-of-attendance service complete with wallet QR code scanning. Very useful indeed!

Build an NFT Based Ticketing System

What's a wallet? What's this gas fee? How can I see this jpeg that I got as an airdrop?

There are many new terms and concepts in web3 which do not exist in the traditional tech world.

When I first started learning about web3, my main challenges were understanding the fundamentals. Hence, in this post, I want to lay out the basics and a roadmap for anyone entering the space ,with a section for developers. It's an e-book kind of blog post.

This post has been long in the making and by no means the ultimate guide for a developer. There are amazing resources from developers in the space, and I've tried to link the resources that have helped me massively. So instead, it's a post that aims to answer my primitive questions provide a curated list of resources and steps to get involved.

How to get started in Web3

An Educational Sandbox For Web3... And Much More.

- Drag-and-Drop Programming
- Open Source Building Blocks
- Visually Understand How Ethereum Works

ETH.build

Video by Austin Griffith, using scaffold-eth.

👨‍🏫 Introduction to Ethereum development

This is a free online school dedicated to onboarding developers into the world of building Decentralized Applications for the future of the Web. We are here to help you level up your skills every step of the way. There are 4 levels that a student can achieve through completing this learning journey. For each level, you will need to complete a set of tasks.

Polygon Academy

Learn How to Build a Crypto Company

The course videos from a16z’s Crypto Startup School, held in the spring of 2020, are now available to all.  Use the hours of free videos and the reading materials, to navigate the idea maze and start building crypto projects.

a16z Crypto Startup School

On this channel, I show awesome things you can do with code. I also try my very best to be as descriptive as possible when making tutorials. I am sure you will find my videos informative so stick around, subscribe and enjoy the show. 

I mostly focus on blockchain technology but that will not always be the case seeing that I want to show you a new way of thinking when looking at programming. Videos might range from blockchain, art, reviews, and coding tutorials. This is a fun space for me to explore the tech world with the community. 

HashLips NFT

I've now seen over 25,000+ Javascript/web devs jump from web2 to web3.

Many of them now have full-time careers at web3 companies, or are starting web3 companies/projects of their own!

How to build your way into a crypto career

Start building the future of the internet.

If you're a dev that's curious about web3 but not sure where to start -- this is the spot for you. Learn + start building cool stuff right now, earn NFTs, access secret work opportunities in crypto.

Buildspace

everything you need to build on Ethereum! 🚀

🧪 Quickly experiment with Solidity using a frontend that adapts to your smart contract

Scaffold-ETH

The List of Web3 Articles and Courses. Learn How to Develop Smart Contracts for Ethereum Blockchain.

Learn Web3

Podcasting

Guide from Transistor on how to get started making a podcast, the gear you need, software and hosting.

How to start a podcast in 2021

It’s a great time to start podcasting. It’s never been easier to record, publish, and distribute a podcast that everyone can listen to. But it can still be tricky to get started and make your show sound as good as possible. John Lagomarsino from the Anchor production team is here to help!

Should I start a podcast?

Tim Ferriss's advice on starting a business or podcast

How to Start a Business or Podcast From Scratch

How can we be the best version of ourself?

High Performance

The Huberman Lab Podcast discusses neuroscience: how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body controls our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health.

Huberman Lab

The Ultraworking Podcast. Exploring peak performance. Operations, business, biochemistry, math, habits, skills... everything. We aim to make every show very special — and potentially life-changing from time to time.

Ultraworking Podcast

I took a few minutes to brain dump all the general tools that make my life better as a developer.

Checkout the general Developer Productivity collection tool!

iOS / Xcode Productivity

Access your simulator folders directly from the menubar

SimPholders

If you want to reclaim tens of gigabytes of your storage used for various Xcode caches - this tool is for you!

Xcode could store tens of gigabytes in ~/Library/Developer folder. Most of those cached files & symbols are not reclaimed over time and could consume a large amount of your storage, which is especially important if you have relatively small SSD drive.

DevCleaner for Xcode

View, analyze and track your Core Data app’s data

Core Data Lab

jazzy is a command-line utility that generates documentation for Swift or Objective-C

Jazzy

Easy Skeezy Date Formatting for Swift and Objective-C

NSDateFormatter

App automation done right

The easiest way to build and release mobile apps. fastlane handles tedious tasks so you don’t have to.

fastlane

SwiftFormat is a code library and command-line tool for reformatting Swift code on macOS or Linux.

SwiftFormat goes above and beyond what you might expect from a code formatter. In addition to adjusting white space it can insert or remove implicit self, remove redundant parentheses, and correct many other deviations from the standard Swift idioms.

SwiftFormat

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions, loosely based on the now archived GitHub Swift Style Guide. SwiftLint enforces the style guide rules that are generally accepted by the Swift community.

SwiftLint

Gosh Darn SwiftUI is a curated list of questions and answers about SwiftUI.

Gosh Darn SwiftUI

All downloads are hosted by Apple. Links on this site take you directly to Apple’s download pages.

Xcode Releases

The easiest way to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode.

XcodesApp

XVim2 is a Vim plugin for Xcode intending to offer a compelling Vim experience without the need to give up any Xcode features.

XVim2

Swift Package Index

I took a few minutes to brain dump all the general tools that make my life better as a developer.

Checkout the iOS / Xcode specific collection tool!

Developer Productivity

iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.14 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

iTerm 2

Over 100,000 developers and designers are more productive with Tower - the most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows.

Tower

Powerful JSON viewer and editor for macOS, iOS.

Jayson

Build APIs together

Over 15 million developers use Postman. Get started by signing up or downloading the desktop app.

Postman

Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).

Charles Proxy

Jumpcut is a macOS clipboard manager that provides Mac users with quick, intuitive access to their clipboard history, with an interface that stays out of their way. It’s been around for over fifteen years, saving users time and preventing frustration whenever they need to use a phone number, URL, or code snippet that they had just a minute ago. It’s absolutely free and open source under the MIT License.

Jumpcut

The browser for developers

Stop wasting time and speed up your development workflow

Sizzy

Text Automation

aText is a text template, text shortcut, text macro, text automation, text expansion tool.

aText accelerates your typing in any application by replacing abbreviations with frequently used phrases you define.

aText

Validate and view JSON documents
JSONView port for Chrome.

JSONView

Dashboards for developers

Open source plugins for metrics about your programming

WakaTime

Convert JSON into gorgeous, typesafe code in any language.

Generate models and serializers from JSON, schema, and GraphQL for working with data quickly & safely in any programming language.

quicktype

Database management made easy

Modern, native, and friendly GUI tool for relational databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite & more

TablePlus

Writing

Start writing online in 30 days
Ship 30 for 30 is a 5-week cohort-based course teaching you the fundamentals of writing on the internet.

Ship 30 for 30

I went from being a bad writer to a good writer after taking a one-day course in “business writing.” I couldn’t believe how simple it was. I’ll tell you the main tricks here so you don’t have to waste a...

The Day You Became A Better Writer

Your writing defines you.

Following are a collection of lessons I’ve learned over the years to help you get the most out of the next thing you write…whatever that may be.

40 One-Sentence Writing Tips

Reimagine Your Writing Workflow

Turn promising ideas into timeless pieces of writing by plugging them into a community of writers, editors, and experts who transform work at every stage.

Foster

It's about learning a new habit: Writing. Every. Day.

I've long been inspired by an idea I first learned about in The Artist's Way called morning pages. Morning pages are three pages of writing done every day, typically encouraged to be in "long hand", typically done in the morning, that can be about anything and everything that comes into your head. It's about getting it all out of your head, and is not supposed to be edited or censored in any way. The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day. Unlike many of the other exercises in that book, I found that this one actually worked and was really really useful.

750 Words

Startups

Every interview on “How to Get Rich” podcast based on Naval's tweetstorm.

3 hr 35 min

How to Get Rich: Every Episode

"This is a never ending thread of the very best online content and resources for early stage startups. Relevant for both self-funded/bootstrapped and venture backed pre-seed/seed stage companies."

Hiten Shah's Startup Resource Thread

Learn how to start a company, with help from the world's top startup accelerator - Y Combinator.

Startup School is a free online program and global community of founders.

Startup School

15 video playlist on Naval's YouTube channel 

Best of Naval Ravikant

A collection of the best startup product metrics.

Brought to you by June.

Analytics Pack

Get your startup's first 100 users – 100 ideas to get your startup's first 100 users with clear, step-by-step instructions. No inspo porn, no irrelevant stories, just clear advice you can follow.

First 100 Users

The popular narrative of startups is outdated. You don't need venture capital to build a startup. You do need a DIY attitude, a lot of persistence and become a generalist who can learn new skills like coding, design and marketing quickly. This way of building a startup is called bootstrapping and it's the coolest way to do it I think. The best thing is you don't need to rub up to venture capitalists to get funding, you keep ownership of your company and you have higher odds to make more money.

How to Build a Startup Without Funding by Pieter Levels

Episode 5 of Startup Podcast – How Gimlet named their company

The Story Alex and Matt confront an issue that has been haunting the company up to this point. They need a company name. But finding one they both like proves to be a challenge.

How to Name Your Company

This interactive guide will be the first step in helping you get started with analytics.

It contains 🧠 the basic concepts and 📚 terminology you need to track your startup’s growth user engagement.

The Startup Guide to Analytics

Entrepreneurship

4 Hour Work Week Infographic

The rapid development of technology and globalization has changed the leverage points in accumulating wealth: money, meaning and freedom.

Those that don’t adapt are becoming trapped in the downward spiral of a dying middle class - working harder and earning less.

Entrepreneurs that understand the new paradigm, have created unprecedented wealth in their lives and the lives of those they love.

The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

In his TED talk, Richard St. John describes the 8 things he's learned by interviewing 400 TED speakers over 7 years. Successful people are driven by their passion, they work hard, focus on what's important, persist despite having set backs, look for opportunities to invent, put in the work to become good, push themselves and serve others. In this video, we'll dive deeper into Ikigai (as a framework you can do) to help you marry these ideas and turn your passion into profit.

Ikigai Workshop – Combines What You're Good At, Love, & The World Needs

Best resources I've found around improving sleep

Sleep

Why We Sleep is a book on a mission. Walker is in love with sleep and wants us to fall in love with sleep, too. And it is urgent. He makes the argument, persuasively, that we are in the midst of a ‘silent sleep loss epidemic’ that poses ‘the greatest public health challenge we face in the 21st century’ … Why We Sleep mounts a persuasive, exuberant case for addressing our societal sleep deficit and for the virtues of sleep itself. It is recommended for night-table reading in the most pragmatic sense.

Why We Sleep

As a professor of neuroscience and psychology at UC Berkeley and the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science, Matthew Walker is an expert on sleep. In this class, he will illuminate the science behind sleep and teach you how to increase the quality and quantity of your sleep. Learn how to prevent sleep debt, navigate the effects of alcohol and caffeine, and improve your health. Your best sleep starts tonight.

Masterclass – The Science of Better Sleep

The Matt Walker Podcast is all about sleep, the brain, and the body. Matt is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the book, Why We Sleep and has given a few TED talks. Matt is an awkward British nerd who adores science and the communication of science to the public.

The Matt Walker Podcast

We're sisters and the Biohacker Babes! We want to empower you to become your own biohacker and upgrade your life. The Biohacker Babes podcast aims to create insight into the body's natural healing abilities, strengthen your intuition, and empower you with techniques and modalities to optimize your health and wellness.

Biohacker Babes Podcast

Matthew Walker is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Founder and Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science. Check out his book "Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams" on Amazon. 

JRE #1109 - Matthew Walker

Ōura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.

Oura Ring

The Sleep Is A Skill Podcast, exists to transform the conversation around sleep on the planet! Each episode is a conversation with industry leaders designed to deliver practical takeaways to improve your sleep. The intention is to shift the paradigm of wellness to make SLEEP the #1 focus in our journey towards great health.

The Sleep Is A Skill Podcast

A series of resource I found all about reading!

Reading

Ryan Holiday and his wife Samantha opened a bookstore with their entire life savings in a 140-year-old building in a small town outside Austin. They envisioned hosting events, welcoming customers from the community, and drawing people to this beautiful street on the bluffs of the Colorado River.

I Opened A Bookstore In A Pandemic

Tim Ferriss's process and strategies for reading books and note-taking.

How to Remember What You Read

With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material.

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