Founder's Compass: Week 31

Hello there and welcome to Founder's Compass, a good way to get oriented around the labyrinthian world of startups.

Tool of the week

Building a tech product and don’t know which ecosystem to lock yourself in? Azure, Firebase, AWS, they’re all tempting. And expensive. And hard to move from one to the other. That’s why we’ve built some of our products with Supabase, an open source Firebase alternative. It’s got all the joys that you need to build a rocking infrastructure.

Video of the week

Here’s a pipedream startup. 30% of the cost of our products is the last mile delivery. A bunch of young guys thought: “If we built a system to deliver our poop when we flush, why can’t we build a system that delivers everything else?”. Take a look at this video to see the Hyperloop of things:

Top 5 stories of the week

• World’s first Tooth regrowing medicine to be tested soon.

• Why we should be optimistic about the future Tech Recession.

• Breakthroughs in a study on Alzheimer’s.

• How dopamine culture leads the tech industry. (Great read)

• How to build an F-you network.

Case Study of the week: Project Bloks (dead)

We know Google loves killing products. It’s part of their innovation strategy ;)

Let’s take a look at a lesser-known dead project from them. Project Bloks teaches coding to children. The main challenge was making coding interesting for young brains. They realized they had to make computer science educational, fun, and tangible for kids.

To find out how kids play and learn, they made use of…