Marie is the founder of Women Make and the co-founder of Threader, a popular Twitter thread compiler she built with with her partner in business and in life, Vincent. She was born in France and spent most of her life and formative years there, at first following her parents’ advice as to what studies and …
As we are heads down building Shipstreams 2.0—a platform for programmers streaming—I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of streaming code and why we are building this platform. Here are some quick thoughts on why I’m bullish on streaming in 2019. How streaming changed everything for me First, let me provide some context. Over …
One of the most fundamental problems that makers face is the lack of money to get started on a project. Access to limited capital can prevent you from taking larger risks that could offer returns, and constrain your innovation during product development. While many products are easy to get started with and can be maintained …
AJ is an indie maker who grew up and is still based in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He is the founder of Carrd, an extremely popular tool offering simple, responsive, one-page websites for pretty much anything, whether a personal profile, a landing page to capture emails, or something a bit more elaborate. “Carrd is definitely my …
Are you a future maker? Someone who wants to be a maker but don’t know how? Or are you already a maker wanting to come up with your next big thing? Do you believe in the audacity to hope? Barack Obama did. In fact, that was the name of a book he wrote before he …
As makers creating products and building businesses, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by the thoughts racing through our minds. We could do with a more mindful approach to life. According to Mindful.org, “Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly …
It’s the community, Ryan Hoover emphasizes, that makes Product Hunt special—a community of makers, fans of their products, and everyone in between. On Product Hunt, users can submit and upvote products from all types of makers from around the world. Hoover himself sees 100+ products submitted everyday, and the community is only getting bigger. In …
The 24 Hour Startup Challenge mobilised indie makers. It also reignited the debate around the definition of a startup. While the challenge from Pat Walls, Armin Ulrich, and Melanie Massinger saw an action-packed weekend of highs, lows, dancing, happy swearing, and launches, there were people sniping from the sidelines. Criticism came from Reddit, challenging the …
Famous Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science researcher Herb Simon once said: “Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.” This is true of maths as it is with making products. We usually call this the design process. Makers can use it to create a work plan through psychology, sociology, …
It’s amazing how people tend to procrastinate with having a free time.
