Mondays are for motivation, so we rounded up some quick reads for the maker community.

🧵: instant wisdo

Free design tools you’ll wish you knew sooner

https://twitter.com/SystemSunday/status/1567866631027556352

200+ pitch deck examples from the most successful startups like Uber, Airbnb, YouTube and more

https://www.pitchdeckhunt.com/

Pssst…here are 10 Canva tricks to make your designs tasteful AF

https://twitter.com/_syedhuq/status/1571078764284743682?s=12

What is alpha in startups? 

@jayyeh heard @rrhoover describe how he doesn't think he should ever fully understand the business on his own when considering investing in a company.

What is it about those unique insights that founders possess? 👇 
https://www.producthunt.com/stories/seeking-alpha-in-startups?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=distribution

🎉 New on Product Hunt: 

• web3 feed
• find all your products and hunts together
• launch dashboard
• modernizing Product Hunt

Details in thread. 👇

👾 web3 feed

We’re using this space to include additional filters and signals, like supported blockchains and Twitter followers. 

Additionally, We’re partnering with more experts to create content and help our users understand web3. 
https://meow.ph/web3

🔍 Find all your products and hunts together

We’ve renamed the 'My hunts' tab to 'My products'. Now we include both products you’ve made as well as those you’ve hunted. We’d like for this to be a hub for existing and future maker tools. https://meow.ph/YX11qz

🚀 Launch dashboard

We created a new way for makers (and hunters) to manage and celebrate their launches on Product Hunt. See how quickly you’re getting upvotes, notable upvoters, where they're located, and easily respond to unanswered community comments.
https://meow.ph/64XFpP

✨ Modernizing Product Hunt

We’re continuing to make visual and performance updates across Product Hunt. We’ve most recently released updates to our Jobs and Changelog.
https://meow.ph/jobs

Learn more and leave your feedback here:

https://meow.ph/RaJssL

Can't wait to read your thoughts and ideas. 👋


@mubashariqbal has launched 80+ products, is a 3-time Maker of Year nominee, and winner. But his story starts when he was 8, copying code from a magazine into a computer. 

Our Content Lead, @sarmariewright sat down & talked to him about his journey. 

🧵 Here are some insights.

https://www.producthunt.com/stories/talking-to-a-maker-of-the-year?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=distribution 

Q: Bootstrapping v fundraising?

A: I like the bootstrapping approach because it removes obstacles that you have to exploring ideas. I don’t fall in the camp of you have to do things one way or another, it’s based on the idea that you have & the things you're trying to do.

Q: How do you decide who to work with?

A: It’s just a matter of how you feel: Is this someone I want to work with? How serious are they? What are they going to do with the MVP? Would they want to expand? If so, it’s much more likely that I’d be interested in helping out.

"The more that you can show that you're prepared, that you're excited about it, and that you've already explored the idea… that’s always a really good sign that I should get in on this because this will happen with or without me."


"I love it when people come to me & actually sat down and taken the time to think through their idea. It’s not just 'I want to build X, Y, Z.' It's just not as simple as that, right? Have you actually thought about who your target audience is? How are you going to reach them?"


Read the full story and jump to the comments section to ask Mubs any questions you have for him. 
https://www.producthunt.com/stories/talking-to-a-maker-of-the-year?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=distribution 


@jspujji shared what he's learned from building four companies in one year in an interview with @tylerswartz. Full story below. 👇

🧵 Mini visual thread with key insights from the conversation. 

https://www.producthunt.com/stories/gateway-x-and-jesse-pujji?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=distribution

Follow @tylerswartz and https://t.co/Ryc7x9QQv1 for more.

We're big fans of @NotionHQ. Apparently, 20 million others are too. But what strategies made it earn its decacorn 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄 status? 

🧵 @Ruchin_Kulkarni goes into the nitty-gritty of how the productivity tool grew to 20M+ monthly active users.

https://www.producthunt.com/stories/notion-the-all-in-one-productivity-tool?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=distribution

How did Notion package its use cases? 

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Something for everyone — The customizable nature of the product has seen adoption with use cases ranging from Gen Z TikTokers organizing school work to multinationals like Adobe and IBM managing workflows for their 10,000+ workforces.

🔮 Betting on the future: Notion is very popular amongst startups and accelerators (500startups, Ycombinator) courtesy of a dedicated startup program that extended $1000 credits to participants.

👨🏻‍🎨 Unleashing creativity: Templates also doubles down as a stage for users to explore their creatives sides and craft custom workflows, share the results with the community and monetize them using paywalls facilitated by tools like Gumroad.

🏘 Building a community: Notion successfully channeled this user behavior to create thriving online communities. r/notion with 150k+ users and a Twitter handle with 200k+ followers actively engage and become an avenue for users to exchange information and empower each other.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Promoting your champions: Notion elevated their power users to Notion consultants or Notion Pros certifying them as experts licensed to offer services around setting up and managing Notion accounts.

What are your thoughts on Notion's GTM strategies? Let @Ruchin_Kulkarni know in the comments. 👇
https://www.producthunt.com/stories/notion-the-all-in-one-productivity-tool?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=distribution

Notion: the all-in-one productivity tool

📣 Today, we’re pleased to welcome @tylerswartz's work to the blog! Tyler is a Group PM at @reddit & writes a product-focused newsletter, where he interviews founders and product makers one year after their product launch.

Follow him & One Year Wiser 👇 
https://www.readoneyearwiser.com/

🧵 Find below a thread of Tyler's stories as they go live on the Product Hunt blog.

https://twitter.com/ProductHunt/status/1499764355935604741