Upstarts #2 (26 Feb 26)


more amazing launches and updates for you this week Reader!

first, some upstarts stats for you:

  • launched 12 Feb 26 (15 days ago)
  • 39 members
  • 29 launches
  • 3 champions (more on that soon)

upstarts is running at full speed, this week we launched some amazing updates:

  • DMs-lite: when you tag someone you can mark it as private
  • post replies are now stacked like whatsapp, no nested replies which looks ugly
  • add images to posts by copy pasting or dragging in
  • … plus LOADS of small UI edits and backend wizardry

in the last 7 days we’ve had 20 product launches alone, here are my faves:

on a side note, i love that builders are listing their tech stack, its super interesting to see what code stack and tech people use. like this:

builder of the week goes tov @thom who launched two new products this week and is on a roll with BizDevTools. i love his approach to fixing small specific problems with simple products – keep on building @thom!

we also introduced Upstarts Champions (or ‘champs’), and so far have 3:

champions are like advocates, helping spread the word and give us amazing feedback to make Upstarts better day by day, so a big thank you and shout out to them.

any questions, reply to this email

over and out

— doug

p.s. we have some exciting updates coming down the line, so sign up to Upstarts free and follow our journey!

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