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Trevor here. Woohoo! Spring has arrived. So has this week’s cohort of awesome startups. Enjoy!
🇺🇸 The Spaghetti Detective: 3D printing monitoring and failure detection software. $28k/mo. (Founded 2018, Total Funding Amount: bootstrapped)
3D printers take a long time (hours to days, and sometimes even weeks) to print a part, and they fail quite often (5% failure rate or higher). The possibility of failure creates stress for millions of makers who own and operate their 3D printers.
”I started TSD as a side project and grew it to tens of thousands of monthly active users. …
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Trevor here. Back with another cohort of formidable startups. Here they are. Enjoy!
🇺🇸 Gable: Network of safe and inspiring neighborhood workspaces. On the flip side, it’s a way for property owners to gain an additional revenue stream by transforming their underused assets into neighborhood networking hubs. (Founded 2020, prev funding: undisclosed pre-seed round)
”Liza and Omri had experienced firsthand how challenging and isolating working from home could be.
There is a real need that wasn’t being filled for remote workers. They seized on the opportunity to scale the informal network of remote professionals and workspaces they had organically created…
Get inspired to code with these awesome challenges
One of the most efficient ways of getting better at coding is to simply build as many things as possible.
Coding challenges are a fun way to level up your skills by building things. Use this article as a source of inspiration, grab something from the list, and let's start building!
If you’re in a hurry and never want to run out of coding ideas — I’ve compiled a list of over 100 challenges here.
You can use any tools you like for the challenges, so if you’ve got something you’d like to practice, feel free to give it a…
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Trevor here. Here are this week’s impressive startups. Let’s rock!
🇺🇸 Contra: A new and modern professional network for flexible work. Build your career around the life you want. (Founded 2019, prev funding: pre-seed)
“Our mission is to give everyone the freedom and opportunity to work independently.” — co-founder, Ben Huffman
🇬🇧 Kamua: Automatically converts YouTube videos into Instagram Stories, Facebook Stories, or Snapchat Stories. (Founded 2019, prev funding: $475k angel round)
“We are saving marketers, editors, and producers up to 85% of their usual workflow time.” — Founder, Paul Robert Cary
🇪🇪 Gigimot: Marketplace that connects customers with local…
Your weekly dose of winning startups
Indrek here. Back with another cohort of phenomenal startups that are changing the world. Without further ado, here they are!
🇺🇸 Basecraft: Easy-peasy payments. Basecraft is the fastest and easiest way to take payments and register people for your services, subscriptions, and events. $4.7k/mo. Currently in beta. (Founded 2018, prev funding: bootstrapped)
“I’ve been slowly building Basecraft over the past two and a half years mostly in stealth mode. The product has improved so much from day one, and we’ve added customers one at a time.” — Founder, Chris Hamrick
🇺🇸 datafold: Data observability platform that helps data teams move…
Your weekly dose of winning startups
Trevor here. Yup! I renamed my first name to Trevor and moved Indrek to my middle name. It’s less confusing now. No biggie.
Back with another edition. We have super exciting and vibrant startups today — Here we go!
🇺🇸 luminDX: Medical software for identifying skin conditions. Designed to help doctors. The software runs an image through a large database of conditions and finds diagnoses. (Founded 2017, prev funding: $2.4M seed)
According to the company, 2.3 billion people look for help with skin issues each year. — But 50% of skin issues are misdiagnosed.
🇪🇪 Cachet: Insurance marketplace for the…
Get inspired to code
Programming is a difficult thing to master. I found one of the best ways to master programming is simply building as much as you can. Hard work pays off — especially with programming.
If you’re new to these articles, they serve more or less as a source of inspiration. Pick a challenge that makes you excited to code and get on with building it.
If you’re in a hurry and never want to run out of coding ideas — I’ve compiled a list of over 100 challenges here.
You can use any tools you like for the challenges, so if…
Your weekly dose of winning startups
Indrek here. Back with another edition of Startups Crushing It!
In case you’re on the free readership plan — I’ve got you covered. Here are the previous posts you missed earlier.
Without further ado — here’s this week’s cohort of awesome startups.
🇩🇪 Strive School: Training the next generation of software engineers in Europe. Strive School works with those pursuing STEM fields to help them become job-ready software engineers. (Founded: 2019, prev funding: angel round)
🇺🇸 chilipepper: Create beautiful forms that are connected to your Notion pages. Built…
Your weekly dose of winning startups
Indrek here. We’re at the 10th edition already! To celebrate I made some stuff smoother and refreshed the appearance of the newsletter. I also picked Tuesdays to send out the newsletter from now on.
Each startup mentioned today has tremendous amounts of potential to grow into a unicorn status company.
Oh, by the way; If programming is your jazz — my programming challenges list made it to the #5 product of the day on ProductHunt last Friday! If this interests you, check it out here.
Without further ado — here are 15 startups that are making the future happen. Enjoy!
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