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🫶 Could you support me on Product Hunt?

"Get Hired in UX" Manual is live on Product Hunt.

Innovators Dilemma book cover

Notes: “The Innovator’s Dilemma”

Doing the right thing is the wrong thing. The highest-performing companies, in fact, are those that are the best at this, that is, they have well-developed systems for killing ideas that their customers don’t want.

Person holding sharpened pencil about to write something in a notebook

Validating Ideas

Every new business idea is based on multiple assumptions. It's like an equation with dozens or hundreds of variables and lots of companies fail because they treat their assumptions as facts when they are not (speaking programming lexicon - variables are not constants

Rework book cover

Notes: “REWORK” by Jason Fried

Cut the “menu”. Focus on something constant (amazon – fast/free shipping, return policy, etc).

Business Ideas

I have to force myself to just write new ideas down and focus on the current one.

Witty Survival - educational videos teaching survival skills

A joint project with my son Vania to learn and show how we learn different emergency preparedness and survival skills.

Unicorn Socks - #1 e-commerce store to buy cool socks with unicorns

Unicorn Socks - #1 e-commerce store to buy cool socks with unicorns

Unicorn Socks - #1 e-commerce store to buy cool socks with unicorns

Team Voice - B2B pulse surveys and polling platform

Team Voice - B2B pulse surveys and polling platform

Employee workplace has a huge impact on human lives, which as a result affects the bottom line of a lot of companies.

Startupper - the blueprint for launching new startups

Startupper - the blueprint for launching new startups

After talking to many of my friends and colleagues in the technology world (the majority of them were talented developers), I was surprised to find out that many of them wanted to become entrepreneurs

UX Inspector - usability analysis for e-commerce companies

UX Inspector - usability analysis for e-commerce companies

Consulting company helping e-commerce store owners and managers understand how to increase their website’s conversion rates (and improve other KPIs) by addressing usability issues.

Obrigado - personalized gifts for realtors' clients

Obrigado - personalized gifts for realtors' clients

With constantly rising competition returning clients are critical to any realtor’s success.

Drilling Startup Tools - reviewing startup tools and systems

Drilling Startup Tools - reviewing startup tools and systems

All the current information is almost useless as it doesn’t provide enough details for a potential customer to make the decision

Get Prototyping Academy - educational resource for digital prototyping

Get Prototyping Academy - educational resource for digital prototyping

After talking to a lot of entrepreneurs I realized that one of the most common causes for their failures and challenges is that they wait too long until they start testing their products with users.

Got Let Go - tracking layoffs in tech companies

Got Let Go - tracking layoffs in tech companies

Problem I started noticing more and more headlines about startups’ layoffs. It was hard to see the real situation, so I wanted to understand if it was an alarming trend or just too much buzz in the media. Solution A website collecting (and displaying) information about layoffs, grouped by month,

Benefitus - crowdbuying of health benefits for independent professionals

Benefitus - crowdbuying of health benefits for independent professionals

Problem During my career, I’d been hearing many of my colleagues who were hired on a contract basis complain that the biggest disadvantage of being a contract employee is that they don’t get extended health benefits like permanent employees to do. For instance, if they need to fix

Evil Foods - health ratings for food ingredients

Evil Foods - health ratings for food ingredients

Problem This idea was born when I got tired of googling for the food ingredients listed on the packaging. Instead of reading the ingredient lists and then googling mysterious names, I thought: What if there was a mobile app that could scan the UPC code of a product and give

Geeky Events - a directory for discovering cool events around the world

Geeky Events - a directory for discovering cool events around the world

Problem Being a designer, it’s absolutely essential for me to keep learning. Technologies change rapidly, and we can’t stop learning if we want to stay relevant. One of the best ways to learn and grow your network is to attend conferences, workshops, training, and other professional events. When

🙉 Noise-Cancelling System For Environment

🙉 Noise-Cancelling System For Environment

Street noise gets in the way. Why can’t we use existing noise-cancelling technology in spaces vs headphones?

🚰 IoT Water Quality Sensor

🚰 IoT Water Quality Sensor

People (in developed countries) assume their water is clean, which creates risk of drinking water with harmful chemicals.

🥡Crowd-Buying Food Containers

🥡Crowd-Buying Food Containers

For a small/midsize restaurant, the cost of the take-out food containers is higher than it could be.

🩻 AR Banners

Static banners on public transit (and anywhere else) have limited space they can take. So, advertisers decide to pack as much information (text and graphics) as they can, which often results in poorly-designed banners with bad readability and lack of clarity.

📊 Affiliate Dashboard

📊 Affiliate Dashboard

If a person has multiple affiliate sales initiatives they have to log into each of their affiliate partner accounts to check their stats.

👧 👦 Kids Activities Platform

👧 👦 Kids Activities Platform

As a parent, it is a challenge to find new classes and sports programs to get your child into. Finding available spots is an even bigger challenge.