#147 Recession Chat: Business Survival Basics, Goodman Factory for your self care and User feedback tool
You don’t need to be locked down mentally during the lockdown.
Design
Illustrations of Black People for Your Next Digital Project
Black illustrations is a series of FREE digital designs of black people for your next online project. Free for commercial and personal use.
Insights
Landing Page inspo
Quick landing page hacks, no need to reinvest the wheel especially if you are short on time.
Instant feedback.Instantly better products.
Remember when I used to plug Canny.io? Yeah scratch that, ain’t nobody got time for that.
This one is a lot more affordable, especially for the bootstrappers
Makers
Amy Hoy is an Indie Hacker who started a few businesses in the last recession. She sat that with Courtland and shares great advice about building an audience, delivering only the features that were needed in the beginning. One thing I really like is the fact that she focuses on building her audience organically, growing through reputation and building through word of mouth.
In a recession people are spending less money - they haven’t stopped spending. They just prioritise aggressively
In this climate, create value for your customers that’s hard to deny. Save them money (which is inclusive of time saved) or make them money.
2020 Recession Chat: Business Survival Basics
👇I really hope so. I believe most people need to be building a business based on customer revenues.
Byproduct of this recession: *many* new indie hackers.
Why?
❶ *Millions* are newly unemployed. A small % (at least) will start companies.
❷ VCs are crunched right now! New founders will find bootstrapping more attractive than bad valuations.
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Culture Chat
Trims and Male Grooming - GUAP
With a lot of people not able to visit their barbers during the lockdown, checkout this piece and Trims & Male Grooming from Goodman who have been building an amazing brand in the last 6 months.