#121 Jeezy backing wireless F-Buds, Freemium models, and does Andela laying off some Junior engineers present a gap?
Cool week for me, did some coding, reading and stayed productive.
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Design
abstrakt.design
Check out this design pack made by a graphic designer and illustrator
A very large Icon library
Over 30,000 icons in three unique weights. 53 categories. 720 subcategories.
A lot of icons basically
Insights
What 3.25 Billion Site Visits Tell Us About Google, Facebook, and Where Different Niches Get Their Traffic
Marketing study of online traffic sources, broken down by industry and based on 3.25 billion website visits.
There was an interesting discussion online about how accurate this is 🤔
Freemium: It's About Acquisition, Not Revenue
The biggest misconception is that freemium is not a pricing model, it is used to acquire customers and own the lead. You want to get as many [potential customers] as you can as fast as possible
In this episode of Tradeoffs, Patrick and Hiten take a look at how the freemium acquisition model uses short -term tradeoffs to bolster long-term goals.
Dummy Images for Any Project
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RemotePad
A remote worker job board (tech biased)
It’s done. Left my 6-figure C-level gig. I hate being an entrepreneur. : Entrepreneur
Interesting discussion on Reddit. Hate it or love it, everyones perspective is different
Makers
Send hundreds of personalized emails with Gmail.
Not personally a fan of this approach, but maybe you have another view?
Culture Chat
Interesting discussion about why andela laid off about 400 developers and recently raised money. Interesting Twitter thread from an ex-Andelan
You kept mentioning “training” as a magic word, so perhaps, I should give you a genesis of how it started, where it went wrong, and where your assumptions are wrong and the pain this sort of misconceptions/miscommunication caused fellows.
The way you put it, it seems you are... https://t.co/QUxuH8TKDr
Wireless Headphones That Translate Any Language backed by Rapper Jeezy
Rapper Jeezy recently gave Figgers Communications his stamp of approval by financially backing the Black-owned tech company.
Freddie Figger a compuer engineer, programmer and entrepreneur introduces us to F-Buds
When paired with Figgers phones, it allows you to translate any language in the world to your language
Interesting discussion 🤔
It is beyond high time that we had a Kenyan or a Nigerian or even Senegalese search engine app that would better present Africa and Africans across the diaspora, without the legacy software and apps trained on obsolete demographic data used by Google and gang. It is damaging SSA. https://t.co/LlJkRNQsun
Year Here
A team who serve as a platform for the next generation of social entrepreneurs are looking to diversify their staff.
If you find this interesting, check out the jobs they have here