Aditya's Newsletter Edition #7

Before you start reading today’s edition, I was wondering if I should separate the News section and the rest of the newsletter and send two emails a week.

So, there can be a weekly tech news email and another with Reality Check, Ideas and Success Stories, and Articles.

This would allow me to send a longer news email and it will also make the regular edition shorter.

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In today’s edition:

• Something For You: I Made a Free Micro SaaS Cheat Sheet

• Reality Check: One Step at a Time, My Friend

• Ideas and Success Stories: Feedback Collection Tools

• Articles: Handling Distractions, Better Landing Page Design, and more

• News: OpenAI DevDay, Scary Fast by Apple, Grok, and more

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Something For You
I Made a Free Micro SaaS Cheat Sheet

I agree the name is a bit too much but I had to name it a bit fancy.

Anyway, I have compiled some SaaS knowledge with resources and stuffed it into a single page.

And it is free.

You can download it here.

Reality Check
One Step at a Time, My Friend

You are far, far away from your dream.

It feels almost impossible.

There’s no way you’ll hit the 50K followers mark! There’s no way you’re going to buy a Porsche! There’s no way you’re going to have that dream house!

WHY THE F*** NOT?

Picture it right now. An end goal. Something you cannot afford presently. I want you to think of that luxury item right now.

Now, what does it cost? Get an approximate number in your head (I know you know the exact amount too).

Do you have money to be spent that is twice the cost of that item?

Most likely not. Otherwise, you would already have it.

Now, when will you have enough money? 5? 10 years later?

But it’ll be too late by then. I’ll be older and I’ll have other priorities.

Maybe. Maybe not. You cannot control the future. Here’s what you can control: your actions.

Why aren’t you taking baby steps every single day towards your goal? The only thing you’re scared of is the distance.

Is it too far away? Doesn’t mean you stop walking. You need to get up and walk, crawl if you cannot walk, but move in the right direction. Continuously. Make progress.

You won’t even realize and you’ll be running towards the light!

It all starts one step at a time, my friend!

Ideas and Success Stories
Feedback Collection Tools

What

Feedback collection tools for a website, newsletter, SaaS, or a physical business.

Why

It’s simple: a business cannot improve without knowing what the customer wants. It’s an eternal necessity.

Success Stories

I have collected a list of a variety of feedback and survey tools just to get a picture in your mind that this is quite a broad field and not restricted to simple form-based tools like Google Forms or Typeform.

• InputKit: This is a B2B company with four products - customer experience, employee experience, patient experience, and online reputation. Reported $60K MRR.

• Ruttl: This tool allows customers to leave live comments on websites and make real-time CSS edits. An effective approach. They have a free plan too! Ruttl made $40K within 5 days of launch!

• BlockSurvey: Back to surveys and forms but it’s AI-driven with a privacy-first approach. BlockSurvey has an MRR of $10K.

• Feedletter: A simple, anonymous feedback tool for newsletters and websites. It has over 1300 users.

Unique Challenge For You

There is a range of feedback tools out there, from simple form builders to complex email automation solutions to personalized agencies.

But what I’ve never seen being offered is guaranteed quality feedback.

Sure, you could add an unskippable star rating screen or a small form but that’s just bad UX.

Create an incentivized guaranteed feedback solution for super-small businesses. Now. that is something, people would pay for.

Articles
How to squash distractions and get things done — a 3-tier approach

Günter Richter

The author explains where distractions come from and how you can overcome them. No matter which field you’re from, you will be able to relate to this article.

Read the complete article

The psychology behind highly effective landing pages

Growth.Design

A beautiful slide deck explaining how you can improve your landing page as per psychological principles. If you have a landing page, you should read this.

Read the complete article

Why I Won't Use Next.js

Kent C. Dodds

TL;DR: It’s perfectly fine if you use Next.js. This article goes into the nitty-gritty of what’s wrong with Next.js. The author also explains how Remix is better. And to be honest, I am tempted to make a project with Remix too.

Read the complete article

News
OpenAI DevDay, Scary Fast by Apple, Grok, and more

• Today, we shared dozens of new additions and improvements, and reduced pricing across many parts of our platform. These include:

  New GPT-4 Turbo model that is more capable, cheaper and supports a 128K context window

  New Assistants API that makes it easier for developers to build their own assistive AI apps that have goals and can call models and tools

  New multimodal capabilities in the platform, including vision, image creation (DALL·E 3), and text-to-speech (TTS)

  We’ll begin rolling out new features to OpenAI customers starting at 1pm PT today…read more
  If you read the “Warm Up for GPT-4 Vision” section in the last edition, you would already know about this.

• In a not-so-spooky event on Halloween Eve, Apple revealed the details of its latest MacBook Pro and iMac desktop computers. Both lineups have been refreshed with Apple’s new M3 silicon, the company’s first 3nm process outside of the iPhone…read more

• Meta is launching a paid subscription that will remove ads from Facebook and Instagram. The service is available throughout the European Union and will be offered for around €9.99 per month on the web or €12.99 / month on iOS and Android to account for additional fees for those platforms…read more

• Meet Grok, the first technology out of Elon Musk’s new AI company, xAI. Grok, the company said, is modeled on “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” It is supposed to have “a bit of wit,” “a rebellious streak” and it should answer the “spicy questions” that other AI might dodge, according to a Saturday statement from xAI…read more

• Consumers are hungry for a new way of social networking, where trust and safety are paramount and power isn’t centralized with a Big Tech CEO in charge… or at least that’s what Mozilla believes…read more
  I wonder why such ideas never get the hype in public?!

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