UI Component Libraries for 2024

mert ✊ — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:27:03 +0000

There are so many component libraries on the market currently. Bad news is that most of them are outdated from a design standpoint by now.

Good news is that newly released libraries look better than ever with considerably better developer experience.

Here are 3 libraries that our team goes for:

1. Shadcn

Simply indispensable. Highly customisable. First instance of the modern design trend
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2 Wedges by Lemon Squeezy

Being a long time fan of Lemon Squeezy developers and their design sense, I was not surprised that they released this library out in the open.

More colorful, customisable... More components on the way.

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3 Catalyst by Tailwind

Highly anticipated. Not yet fully released, only announced. The design of the library takes Shadcn even a step further. No doubt it will break out hard and fast in 2024

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Restarting with a pivot

mert ✊ — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:38:30 +0000

Back in the beginning of November, we pivoted into being a product marketing platform. It was a tough and painful pivot as we were operating focused on crypto niche in marketing.

After talking to prospective customers - to whom I am forever grateful to - we noticed that the problem we are solving was real.

However as one customer put eloquently:

The solution is not accurate.

Shortly put: Our solution was covering only the social posting aspect of go-to-market and marketing but not the whole thing.

Hence we decided to drill down to understand the workflows much better.

Looking inside

At Troy Labs, I am the only full-focused person who deals with go-to-market and marketing. The rest of the team is coding 24/7.

Therefore, before I leapt into my user interviews, I started thinking about how I am trying to grow Godmode.

1. Outbound relationships

I get 3-4 outbound cold emails almost every day. They are relatively well-crafted and formulated. In a different universe, I would have responded. I don't now - because I know they are written with AI. No personal touch, no context, almost the same as injecting merge tags.

Considering this negative effect, I decided to write all my outbound over at Linkedin and one by one. It takes a lot of time but gets more results. After working on it for months, I noticed that I turned into what I was trying to avoid.

I was using ready-made templates to send out to people I just connected with.

I did not follow up with any of them

I did not track their activities or posts to understand the context.

I hated managing Linkedin inbox, Twitter inbox, Telegram + Whatsapp inbox, let alone my dirty email inbox.

Had to be a better way.

2. Social posting

Leading up to our Product Hunt launch before the pivot, I started sharing our product and changelog improvements every 2 days. Link here 👇. More on learnings on launching on Product Hunt later on.

We believe in experimentation and intent. This is not a personal development quote but a scientific method. Anything you do in startups is either a 0 or a 1.

This means that when we were posting on social, we did not want to post same things over and over again. Let alone what everyone else has been posting.

Yet after some time, it turned pretty ordinary. Looking back, I can see why: It just got boring.

3. Be where others are not

Early on, I noticed that everyone in B2B was marketing in Linkedin and Twitter. Yet there were many more places to do marketing:

Reddit
HackerNew
Farcaster
Lens
Dev.to
and more

I started connecting with people over at these platforms. Now beware:

Reddit, HackerNews etc people are much much more brutal than Linkedin and Twitter people. It is not for the faint-hearted.

However, it was working. One by one, we were getting decent feedback, doing user research and getting some sign ups.

Had to be a better way to do all this. I was managing:

social media
sales and prospects
email marketing
community

All of these were meant to do a single thing: Get us new customers and learn from them.

Why was I dealing with 4-5 different software products while managing 10 different channels? More importantly, I had no idea what was working or not.

Enter => GodmodeHQ

React table packages like Notion Table

mert ✊ — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 21:27:56 +0000

I am looking for a table package for react that has the modern small features of tables in Notion/Airtable like tools. These are:

sorting
sums and averages (calculations)
drag of columns
resize columns
multi select cells
editable cells on click

I am familiar with React-table however it is still too raw to build all these capabilities. Anyone know of a better package that can speed things up?

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