Creator

How to make cool Gradients β Prototypr
Designing gradients is one of the coolest topics nowadays. Making a decent gradient is the key to discover new potentials in interface design. Creating a good gradient distinguishes your product and its interfaces from the others.
Automatically turn designs into code, specs and assets for developers - Handoff
Speed up your development process with Handoff, the fastest way to turn your designs into code, specs and assets for your dev team.
Directory of tools and resources for illustrators - Illustration Tools
Illustration Tools is a platform for illustrators, creatives, and artists. It serves as a meeting point for the community, providing tools, knowledge, and a space for discussion.
Developer

Five Quick Thoughts on Microsoft + Github - Joseph Flaherty
Microsoft is acquiring GitHub for $7.5B in stock. What does it mean for the tech ecosystem and startups? Here are a few quick thoughts:
Do not be this kind of developer
Spoken languages are close to programming languages in its core: communication. Both are great tools to communicate. And thatβs how you want to see programming languages: as a tool.
Notion brings its powerful note-taking app to Android
a sophisticated note-taking app with a sleek design, arrives on Android. The app, which can serve as a powerful replacement for apps like Evernote and Bear, offers a highly flexible interface for taking notes and creating to-do lists, letting you organize your tasks into tables, kanban boards, and calendar views
Entrepreneur

Instant idea feedback and validation from entrepreneurs - IdeaZap
IdeaZap is a platform where you can receive feedback on your ideas quickly from a community of entrepreneurs.
Free bootstrap themes for your startup and side-project - Themes For App
4 new themes every 4 weeks in your inbox. Free (Do whatever you want), fully-responsive Bootstrap 4 themes for your next startup and side-project. We're building an Unsplash of bootstrap themes for Indie hackers and creators.
Drift Help β A 100% free knowledge base for your startup
Drift Help is a simple and FREE help center that automates your support with chatbots that read your help documentation and provide real-time answers to your customer's questions on chat.
Marketer

I just turned off AdWords - How not to generate leads for your SaaS business
For the past few months, we spent a few $K a month testing out AdWords strategies for Paperform. The largest campaign was generating new trial users at under $4/trial, which, given our historically solid conversion rates from trial to paid users, should translate to a money making machine.
Outro
π Thank you for reading Engigogo Digest issue #8
If you value Engigogo Digest, feel free to forward this copy to your friends to help us grow. Suggestions or comments? Hit reply, or write to go@engigogo.com