Lunchbox #4
Hi from Homeroom. Welcome to the 4th edition of Lunchbox, a weekly-ish curation of cafeteria fodder for product managers. If you’ve been sent this email and you’re not a subscriber, you can join by clicking on the big button below.
🥦 Getting Better
The value gap: how to reduce churn by creating better on-boarding experiences. Includes further reading.
An underrated factor in SEO: infographics.
🍴 New Tools
Headlime creates headlines for your product.
isBusy gives you a website so people can know if you're available right now. Found by Doug who then made everyone uncomfortable.
Apption compiles available embedded apps for Notion.
Linear is a new take on managing software projects with a focus on speed. FWIW, they took $4.2M from Sequoia last year.
🍿 Perspectives
Why are Black and Latino people still kept out of the tech industry? by Sam Dean & Johana Bhuiyan [Los Angeles Times]
Tech Addiction and Smartphone Dependency: Latest Science and Statistics @Lima_Writes [HACKERNOON]
🌶 Hot Goss
India bans TikTok, WeChat, and 67 other apps from the country.
Reddit bans pro-Trump forum The_Donald and other communities that promote hate.
🌭 How It Works
What happens when you type a website into your browser and hit enter? Going beyond your research for that PM interview …
A longer (45 min) but excellent video by Hussein Nasser.
A high level overview (10 min) video by Timothy James.
🍪 Dessert
Plato Circles for Inclusion is free mentorship for people from underrepresented communities. Get in there.
Two Hacker News redesigns: one in the style of a newspaper, and the other as a news deck.
Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown.
It Is What It Is: a fake app hyped on Twitter turned into a fundraiser for racial justice causes.
Marian Pekár shares what he learned after building a game to help stray cats.