Your weekly dose of winning startups
Indrek here — and here’s a cohort of formidable startups that could crush it.
Startups Crushing It! is a premium newsletter about early-stage and high-growth startups.
The primary focus is on European and US markets. But never say never to various brilliant opportunities.
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Without further ado — here is this week’s cohort of formidable startups that could crush it.
🇸🇪 Hooked Foods: Develops a plant-based shredded salmon product.
🇫🇮 🇩🇪 ultimate.ai: Customer service automation platform for your contact center.
🇫🇮 ReceiptHero: Delivers receipts automatically from merchants to your banking and accounting apps. …
Your weekly dose of winning startups
Indrek here — and here’s a cohort of formidable startups that could crush it.
Startups Crushing It! is a newsletter about early-stage and high-growth startups.
The primary focus is on European and US markets. But never say never to various brilliant opportunities.
This article was originally published here: https://www.startupscrushing.com/p/startups-crushing-it-digest-004
🇫🇷 ScrapingBee: Web Scraping API that handles headless browsers and rotating proxies. (20k/mo)
🇺🇸 Speak AI: Improve your communication, awareness, well-being, and productivity. Analyze your recordings and gain insights.
🇪🇪 salv: Overcome financial crime and fraud; anti-money laundering (AML) platform. …
Here’s a bit of coding inspiration
Mastering programming involves putting in tons of work. You’ll have to be coding as often as possible to get good at it. Some people are naturals — I’m not one of them — but even geniuses need to put in the work.
Without further ado, here are today’s coding ideas. Use each one as a source of inspiration. Pick something that makes you excited to code and get on with it.
Use whatever tools or programming language you prefer. I’ll also include what you’ll learn by building each idea.
1. Animated Race Track With Moving Cars
This is a race track with two cars driving around it. …
Your weekly dose of winning startups
Indrek here — and here’s your weekly dose of formidable startups that could crush it.
“Startups crushing it!” is a newsletter about early-stage plus high-growth startups.
Note: This newsletter was originally published here: https://www.startupscrushing.com/p/startups-crushing-it-digest-003
🇺🇸 super: Turn your Notion pages into fast, functional websites with custom domains, fonts, analytics, and more.
🇪🇪 Sentinel: Defends against deep-fakes and information warfare. Detection modeled after cybersecurity’s standard of Defense in Depth (DiD).
🇱🇻 fixar: Builds efficient drones for commercial use. They use a proprietary operating system and flight controllers.
🇫🇮 Solar Foods: Designs a new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity. …
Your weekly dose of winning startups
Indrek here. Startups Crushing It! is a newsletter about early-stage and high-growth startups.
The primary focus is on European and US markets. But I’m always on the watch for new cool ideas or projects.
Here’s your weekly dose of startups that could be influential.
🇺🇸 hash.ai: HASH is an open platform for simulating anything. Simulate the spread of wildfires in a regrowing forest, warehouse logistics, city infection models, rainfall, and more.
🇪🇪 snackable.ai: Use machine learning to identify & share your key moments, faster. …
Your weekly dose of winning startups
I’m in experimental mode. Let’s try something new.
Startups Crushing It! is a newsletter about early-stage and high-growth startups.
The primary focus is on European and US markets. But I’m always on the watch for new cool ideas or projects.
Digests are a list of startups with short descriptions. I plan to do this weekly or bi-weekly, depending on the demand.
The upside for the new format is a faster pace. Things move fast in the startup world.
The new format also is better for absorbing the info more swiftly.
Cut the chase. Here they are.
Scrimba: Online coding school that is both personalized and scalable. Scrimba has over 120K monthly active students. It’s based on a new video format that makes the screencasts interactive for students. Also, the screencasts are easier to create for teachers. Their vision is to create a coding school that has the quality of Stanford but the price of a gym membership. Scrimba is a Y Combinator summer 2020 company. …
How do you measure a great software engineer?
Software engineering is the art of finding elegant solutions to complex problems. Software engineers are code crafters who create art with their minds. This conjures the question: What makes someone good at their craft?
What makes a good software engineer? There are no wrong answers here. It’s subjective — up for anyone to interpret. But there are some qualities we collectively appreciate in an engineer.
Here are my personal views on what makes someone an excellent engineer and a great person to work with.
I welcome any additional qualities you love to see in engineers in the comments.
You’re Fun to Work With
Imagine the following scenario. …
Get really good at coding by building these projects
Some individuals are particularly excellent at coding, and you could also belong to that group.
Not a single person became a pro at programming overnight. Mastering programming involves putting in tons of work. You’ll have to be coding as often as possible to get really good at it.
Yes, some people are geniuses — I’m not one of them — but even geniuses need to put in the work.
Getting good starts with practice, practice, and more practice.
Without further ado, here are the coding ideas I promised. Use each idea as a source of inspiration. …
This startup promises to automate your video editing process
Video editing is a pain, especially when you want to convert from horizontal resolution (laptops) to vertical resolution (phones).
The 16:9 screen ratio is the most common and universal format for videos and images.
Twitter and YouTube both use the 16:9 screen ratio format for their platforms.
Everything changes when we go on phones. The smaller the screen, the more valuable the screen real-estate becomes.
For mobile-only content apps such as Instagram, TikTok, or Snapshot — you’re stuck using the 1:1 or 9:16 screen ratio.
Oh, and they’re about to open their first factory
Amazon ships around 2.5 billion packages a year in the US. That’s a lot of cardboard boxes and a ton of plastic bubble wrap.
Fortunately, smaller packages are padded envelopes instead of cardboard boxes. But that doesn’t still solve the waste issue.
Cardboard is relatively biodegradable. But what about the plastic bubble wrap inside the cardboard package?
Bubblewrap as toxic waste
Until 2008, bubble wrap was made using plastic polymer film. The material is ecologically toxic.
Plastic polymer film takes hundreds of years to disintegrate in landfills.
Replacing bubble wrap with sheep wool
Each year over 200 000 tonnes of sheep wool gets burned or buried as its quality is “not sufficient enough for textile” — and those statistics are just for Europe. …
