Few groups dedicate themselves more to learning than the attendees and speakers at MicroConf. Like last year, I polled as many folks as possible for their favorite tools and books that others may not know about.
Mentioned in Talks
Tools
- Balsamiq - wireframing tool
- Calendly - Help Schedule Meetings
- Camtasia
- Remarq.io - nicely formatted PDF reports and books from markdown
- After Effects
- Illustrator
- Harpoon - time tracking and invoicing for freelancers
- Hunter.io - find email addresses
- ScreenFlow - screen capture, screen cast, and video editing software
- Slack - work chat system
Services and APIs
- Podcast Motor
- Stripe Atlas
- Rev- transcription
- Wistia - Video Hostin
- Demo Duck - product demo videos
- Video Brewery - product explainer videos
- RetargetLinks - links to enable ad retargeting
- SmarterQueue - schedule social media
- Stripe - online payments
- MailLift - handwritten letter service / API
- AskNicely - real time NPS
- zapier - automated workflows
- LeadChat - humans to answer live chat on your site
- WP Simple Pay - Stripe checkout forms for Wordpress
- Profitwell - SAAS Metrics
Books and Other Resources
- Microconf Recap Notes
- Stripe Atlas Guide to Starting a Business
- Tiny Marketing Wins - a marketing tatic per week
- Jolt! - marketing tactics book
- Kalzumeus Training - Sell More Software (free course)
- Getting Real - A 37 Signals book (now free)
- DevMarketing.xyz - Marketing for Developers course
- Ask
- NPR Curious Listener’s Guide to Jazz
- Instant Cashflow - Bradley Sugars
- La La Land - a film
Speaker Slides
Tools for Infoproducts
Social Media and Other Content Distribution
- Medium
- Quora
- YouTube Live Events - stream video for online workshops
- Crowdcast - stream video for online workshops
Sources for Content
Attendee Recommendations
Business Books and Resources
- The One Thing - Gary Keller
- The War of Art - Pressfield
- Purple Cow - Seth Godin
- The Dip - Seth Godin
- Antifragile - Nassim Taleb
- Derek Sivers Blog
- Personal MBA - Josh Kaufman
- Everything is a Remix Remastered - Kirby Ferguson
Wealth / Personal Finance Books and Resources
- Millionaire Next Door
- OptionAlpha - Learn about options trading
- Personal Capital - track your net worth, analyze your investments
- Mint - track your spending and net worth
Health / Wellness Books
- Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) by Chade-Meng Tan
- The Urban Monk
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B Irvine
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan
- Turning the Mind into an Ally (Guide to Meditation)
