Vander Labs
Launch skills written and tested by the Vander Labs team at REN16. Creators publish their own alongside these.
Skills by Vander Labs
- Personal CRM: Keep good relationships from going quiet by accident
- Weekly planning: Two or three outcomes in the hours you actually have
- Meeting notes to decisions: What was decided, who does what, what is open
- Dashboard design: Few numbers, in reading order, with a decision behind each
- Spreadsheet modeling: Inputs, calculations, outputs, checks
- SQL for analysts: The right grain, proven against a total
- Incident postmortem: Learn from the outage without a trial
- Database schema design: Tables that make bad data impossible
- Pull request code review: Correctness first, then everything else
- Customer interview synthesis: From a pile of transcripts to insights you can defend
- Competitor teardown in one hour: A clear map and the gaps worth attacking
- Lightroom editing recipe: One look, applied to the whole set
- Product lighting with one to three lights: Light the reflections, not the object
- Product photos with a phone: Catalog quality from a window and paper
- Grant and proposal writing: Answer exactly what the funder asked, with evidence
- OKR drafting: Outcomes with baselines, not a task list in disguise
- Pricing teardown: Price on value, then test it
- Customer case study: A result prospects believe, in the customer's words
- Brand voice guide: So everything you publish sounds like one person
- Cold email that gets replies: Four sentences, about them
- UX audit: Where people get stuck, and what to fix first
- Landing page teardown: Fixes ordered by how much they cost you
- Brand identity starter kit: A working brand system, not a mood board
- Documentary interview questions: Answers that cut together without your voice
- YouTube script structure: A promise, a payoff and nothing that does not earn its minute
- Short-form edit rhythm: Vertical videos people watch to the end
- PCB review before you order: Catch the dead-on-arrival mistakes first
- Bill of materials and sourcing: Real part numbers, alternates and honest costs
- Enclosures for 3D printing: Cases that fit on the first full print
- ESP32 IoT prototype: From a device idea to a working board