Product Showcase: Tress #WomenInTech
Will Tress redefine how we make hair from now on?
Celebrations are still on for our Women in Tech month. This week our focus tilts towards the beautiful and remarkable Tress App
In 2015 something revolutionary happened…
3 female entrepreneurs; Priscilla, Esther and Cassandra from MEST came together to birth an app that solves a major need amongst women folk.
It’s called Tress.
Tress is a social community mobile app for black women all over the world that provides them with information about hairstyles.
It gives you detailed access to trending and current hairstyles, the name, name of the hair products or extensions used, the location of the salon or stylist who can actually make the hair for you and how much it costs.
Tress has above 100,000 downloads and has made it into YCombinator’s Winter 2017 cohort
Isn’t that amazing?
Ladies, you should totally check out this app. Guys, get your girl in the know. You can take a look or download the app here.
Developer News From Women Around The World
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Debrah Lobel writes about her first ever program in 1969. Debrah has been a software developer for over four decades. This is so inspiring.
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Oyom Ada Nduka, founder of She Codes Africa shares with us HackerRank’s statistics on Female devs around the world. More work needs to be done.
Find out who has the best female devs
Startup Advice from one of the most influential Women in Tech
Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator and one of the most connected people in tech. This post is full of major keys to success.
40 Women activate their community by teaching programming
Women Who Code, a community outreach programme started in Washington DC, now has over 4000 members around the world with just 40 teachers. You need to read about this great organisation.
Advice to New Grads breaking into Tech
Yana Sofyer, a growth and marketing expert writes 3 steps new graduates interested in Tech to follow. It’s full of so much wisdom.
The UI/UX Section
Combatting unconscious bias in Design
Jen Heazelwood is the Creative Director and Head of Experience at R/GA London — a full service digital agency. She writes about how an unconscious bias creates flaws when we design products.
CSS Grid Layout Terminology Explained
Ire Aderinokun dives into the depths of CSS Grids and explains what the terms mean.
Until Friday,
Funmi
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