#134 10 Free sites for illustrations, Lets make your customers love you, Ghanian rapper shoots his shot with Rick Ross
Hey everyone, thought I would share some of the things I have done to give me confidence on an experiment I am exploring.
Quick tip for validating ideas that I’m going to try:
Instead of “Hey I’m building an app…” ask “Hey, I can’t stand when I have to do x, how do you handle this?”
1. Idea
Build something you want or know how to build because you’ve built it for yourself or someone you care about. Go high-end first, then mass market
Solve a problem you are uniquely qualified to solve in a growing market
2. Lean Canvas
AKA the One-page business plan
3. Research
Reading content: blogs, articles, podcasts, YouTube all
This helps to learn more about the market and find potential competitors. Neat side effect: You learn where to market your idea.
4. Out in the field
Speaking to 5-10 people from a particular persona or customer segment. Taking note of their demographics and behaviour
Talk to those in your network or email list. Find a problem, get them to pre-pay, and solve it
Following the research I go into 1:1 chats with potential users/customers, people who know the industry.
5. Success metric:
Gettting someone I didn’t know to pay for it
✉️ With ❤️ from Nigeria 🇳🇬
Design
Free Vector Illustrationsto Class up Your Project
Helps creators who don’t draw overcome the lack of quality graphics
Humaaans: Mix-&-Match illustration library
Mix-&-match illustrations of people with a design library for InVIsion Studio and Sketch.
Illustration Gallery by ManyPixels | Open-Source Editable Illustrations
Each week, discover royalty-free illustrations to power up your projects. Use them in a commercial or non-commercial way.
illlustrations - open source illustrations kit
Large set of opensource illustrations. You can use completely free and without attribution.
Free isometric illustrations for designers,startups and companies
Free vector isometric illustrations for designers, startups and companies without the need to include attribution
Glaze | Illustrations
Free illustrations, for everything. Memorable products, brands, & presentations start with our curated royalty-free illustration library
Free Illustrations [Free SVG Illustrations] MIT Vectors
Free Illustrations and Icons for everyone. Use them for anything you like. Free for commercial and personal use.
Free Vector Images for Commercial Use
Free Vector Images for Commercial Use. Download Illustrations in SVG, SKETCH, AI and PNG formats.
Fresh Folk
An illustration library of people and objects
Open Doodles - Free sketchy illustrations
A library of sketchy illustrations of people free for personal and commercial use.
Insights
How did you validate your idea? : startups
Another great discussion on the startups subreddit
Interesting hearing different peoples views on what they have done
10% Equity as the Unpaid Technical Cofounder? : startups
No amount of equity is enough when the person is not making enough to pay their bills, or even maintain/improve their quality of life.
Makers
In 2019, I can definitely say I tried new things, and I really enjoyed the times when I was learning something new. I love helping people bring their dreams to life or seeing them execute on their potential if I can really add value.
I coded, then started working with the tools that are available. I went deeper into analytics and I started building eCommerce sites for friends/family.
This year I will be exploring and sharing the tools I use along my journey and for those of you who want to focus on your business and want someone else to build/design hit me up. I have a few fixed services that I will be opening up to others at a fair price. I feel like this is a good idea of what it will look like. Please share feedback by hitting reply
Culture Chat
I came back from Ghana 🇬🇭 last week and it was amazing to see so many people from Entertainment, Sports, Property developers, etc. I can fully say I was blessed to experience it.
I got great feedback on the app I built and I will write about it and explain more about why I did it this week so look out for that.
CJ Biggerman welcomes Rick Ross in Ghana with dope bars 🔥🔥🔥 #wifiwrld #Dettyrave2019 #DettyRave https://t.co/SqjCDmJ7Bi