StartupResources.io — Issue #127
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Tool of the week
Facebook Customer Chat Plugin (beta) — developers.facebook.com
This free plug-in from Facebook lets you add Messenger chat right to your website. Depending on your audience’s likelihood of having a Facebook account, this may make any other form of website chat obsolete.
Tools discovered recently
BrandCrowd Logo Maker — www.brandcrowd.com
BrandCrowd’s logo maker has thousands of unique logo designs that let you create your logo. Their graphics look more unique than most other logo makers.
yourbrowser.is | API for lots of browser details — yourbrowser.is
This API service, which is free for most features, lets you discover a whole lot of stuff about your users’ browser without having to ask, including things like where they are in the world, whether they’re logged into Google or Facebook, whether Flash is available, and more.
Springzo | Unlimited content, minimum time — www.springzo.com
Springzo is another productized service, priced at $199/month for unlimited by professional writers, which is quite competitive. Their unique selling point is that they try to save you the maximum amount of time by reducing back and forth, and allowing you to provide your content request in a multitude of formats, including an audio recording. They state a turnaround time of 4–5 days so you should be able to get 4–5 good articles per month.
Mustard UI | Good looking CSS framework — mustard-ui.com
Starting a new SaaS or web app? Have your dev team look into this framework, it’s completely free, modern and good looking.
Fonts people actually use — icons8.com
On the subject of website design, here is an interesting tool from Icons8 to see fonts (and font pairings) that are actually popularly used.
SmallTalk | Send audio in Gmail — www.trysmalltalk.com
This is a free extension to record some audio and send it via Gmail. My crystal ball says this could be the next cold emailing craze… or maybe not — but it seems potentially quite useful.
Landbot | Conversational landing pages — landbot.io
This is an interesting twist on building a chatbot, that effectively generates a landing page that is conversational. Free for up to 100 chats per month.
Articles for this week
SEO for Startups: The Organic Playbook for Seed-Stage Companies — www.atrium.co
This SEO playbook is targeted at seed-stage startups, and highlights the differences in what you should do at that stage compared to if you have an established company. Lots of interesting actionable stuff here.
The Equation That Will Make You Better at Everything — www.outsideonline.com
Interesting “fitness tip” that you can apply to your career, relationships, and of course fitness. Food for thought, a short read.
Inside a $1 Billion Real Estate Company Operating Entirely in VR — singularityhub.com
eXp realty is pretty interesting, they do all their training of their 12,000+ agents in a virtual reality environment. Something to emulate? Doubly interesting for me, as they are CrankWheel users, using the system to share their screens (for presentations and such) onto virtual screens huge or small within the virtual environment.
The 10 Essential Email Metrics & KPIs To Track — blog.cordial.com
Doing email? Here are the metrics and KPIs you should consider tracking.
How to Find More Time for Your Side Projects — www.creativelive.com
Trying to get a side project off the ground? That’s how many of us start, and finding the time for it is tough. Here’s a bunch of advice on making more time, maybe some ideas here that you could try.
That’s it for this issue
As always, it is a pleasure and a privilege to write this newsletter for you every week. I hope you are getting value from it.
Cheers,
Jói
P.S. Remember to check out our awesome sponsor, Station. I actually featured Station as tool of the week back in issue #96, let that stand as a testament to what I think of the tool!
