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Fresh off the PLG Press: Substack supremancy🙌🏼, PLG Flywheels 🎡 & the one tool to help you sleep better 😏
👋 Hey, Ruchin here! Welcome to this week’s edition of the ✨Top of the Lyne✨ newsletter. Each week we publish the hottest news from the beautiful world of product-led growth! (PLG)
The outcome we're shooting for is simple... to get enough folks excited about the product-led world that we so dearly love ❤️
Into the Twitterverse 🐦🌌
Just another glorified newsletter tool 🗞
Just one of the many criticisms I heard about Substack during my former life as a VC:
“Why would any one writer pay 10% of revenue to an emailing tool?”
“Wouldn’t the best writers graduate out of Substack as their subscriber base grows?”
“Why would a writer pay a 10% tax to a platform that does not help them grow revenue”
“Newsletters are dead”
All valid concerns. Okay, maybe not the last one. All until… Substack recommendations went live. And boy has that changed things.
Substack after launching recommendations As an example, Substack recommendations is now driving 72% of Lenny’s subscriber growth. And more interestingly, 10% of his paid subscriber growth 🚀
In Lenny’s own words… Substack is now “covering their fees”
And its not just Lenny’s Newsletter. Here’s how Growth Unhinged grew from 0 to 10k+ plus in 18 months. Guess what happened towards the second half of next year?
So, New York Times - what’s the next Substack hit piece going to be about?
How to manage your board 101 👩🏻💼
A masterclass on navigating board meetings for first-time presenters. The TLDR -
Speak English, not Marketing
Be consistent & repetitive across meetings
And relax… The board is on your side
Viral Cycle Time ♼
One of the core growth metrics driving the growth of TikTok, and now ClickUp!
🔎 The PLG hunt
It’s cool to be nice, bro. 🐶
Says Kona.
And we agree. 🙌🏼
Making mental health check-ins easier for remote teams, fighting burn-out, and helping remote teams feel at home, Kona is putting the “human” back in Human Resources.
Loved by teams at Buffer and Canva, Kona turns emotional signals into data points, that help cos. fight attrition, lack of motivation, and a LOT MORE! ❤️
Oh, and they also just raised a sweet seed round. 👏🏽
Which hot and upcoming PLG company are you most excited about? 👇🏻
Growth Stories 🚀
CommonRoom should be commonplace!✨
Loved by teams across, Figma, HubSpot, Webflow, and many others, CommonRoom is an intelligent community growth platform that brings community engagement, product usage, and customer data into a single place.😍
We become roomies and find out the BTS behind their $300M valuation!💖
Fundraising, Venture Capital, and Exits 🤑
Headroom raises $9Mn 💵
Headroom’s AI-powered videoconferencing technology, led by ex-Googler Julian Green is making heads turn (quite literally).
The round was led by Equal Opportunity Ventures with participation from Gradient Ventures, LDV Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, and Morado Ventures.
Launches, events, and releases
Gain more time with Morgen ⏰
Manage your calendars, to-do apps, productivity tools, schedulers, and most importantly: Get👏🏽Back👏🏽 Your👏🏽 Time👏🏽 with Morgen!
(Oh, and of course, it integrates with everything you love!)
The Future is Video(SDK) 🔮
VideoSDK helps you build highly interactive and immersive experiences with our cutting-edge live audio and video SDKs.
Made by developers 🤝 for developers
Oh, they’re also #1 on Product of the Day on ProductHunt - no surprises there 😏
🎉 Hooray!! We are the #1 Product of the Day on @ProductHunt 🥳 Overwhelmed by all the love and support we’ve received 😇 Check it out here: producthunt.com/posts/video-sd… #1ProductoftheDay #producthunt #productlaunch #devtools
GoingTweeting around in Circle(s)
Circle allows you to tweet to a selected group of people. From Drake to your best friend, 150 people of your choice can access your unhinged thoughts through your circle.Close Friends, much?👀
Nerding out on PLG 🤓📚
Discover everything about the product-led growth flywheel 🎡
The four user segments: Evaluators🤔 - Beginners🆕 - Regulars💪🏻 - Champions🙌🏼 and the key actions you need your users to take for them to move across the funnel. ➡
A solid framework for making your PLG fly through the roof! 💥 Check it out.
Blazing Hot Meme Zone ⚡️
Toplyne: Helping you sleep better! 😎
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Some housekeeping…
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