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24 alternatives to Salt of the Earth - Freddy Zeideia, The Falafel King

Creating a wildly popular falafel cart and restaurant

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Salt of the Earth - Freddy Zeideia, The Falafel King launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Salt of the Earth - Aaron Draplin▲55
Aaron designs Field Notes and runs Draplin Design Co.
2016 · its alternatives →
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Salt of the Earth - Marty Raney▲56
Marty runs the Alaska Stone and Log Company
2016 · its alternatives →
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Salt of the Earth - Jason Fried▲68
Jason is the CEO of Basecamp.
2016 · its alternatives →
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Salt of the Earth - Bravado Spice - Two funny guys built a hot sauce company▲55
Bravado Spice gets in 300+ retailers, starting with a tweet
2016 · its alternatives →
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Salt of the Earth - Allison Robicelli & the No Pants Economy▲57
A whiskey-fueled rise to success
2016 · its alternatives →
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Salt of the Earth - Paula Varsalona, NYC Bridal Designer▲63
Missourri small town to one of NYC's biggest designers
2016 · its alternatives →
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Salt of the Earth - PROBAR - Jeff Coleman and Jules Lambert▲54
Creating, distributing, and selling a super popular bar.
2016 · its alternatives →
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Salt of the Earth - Michael Miqueli, Trucker▲4
Building a trucking empire in New Jersey
2016 · its alternatives →
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Salt of the Earth - Ashley Albert and Jonathan Schnapp, Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club▲66
How a shuffleboard club succeeded in Brooklyn
2016 · its alternatives →
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat▲83
Mastering the elements of good cooking
2017 · its alternatives →
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Only Salt▲67
Naturally microplastic & toxin-free spring salt
2020 · its alternatives →
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Salt of the Earth - An Olympic Hopeful Googles her way to Business Success▲54
Stephanie Bruce Rothstein is a founder of Picky Bars
2016 · its alternatives →
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I have Salt▲113
Craft your signature dish
2024 · its alternatives →
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Salt of the Earth - 12: Michael Miqueli, San Antonio Broker Services▲60
Building a trucking empire
2016 · its alternatives →
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Salted▲137
Learn skills and recipes from expert chefs
2014 · its alternatives →
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Salt of the Earth - 14: How Peter Shankman Earned Millions by E-mailing his Friends▲58
Shankman founded HARO from his living room, with his cat
2016 · its alternatives →
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Salt of the Earth - 26: "Patty Boy"▲56
Patty Boy is going down slinging cheesesteaks
2016 · its alternatives →
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I Derived a Pancake▲340
After 25 years of making other people's pancake recipes - always yearning for more tang, more fluff, and more predictability - I decided to derive the pancake recipe from the chemistry. You mark checkboxes for what you have on hand (ricotta, sour cream, kefir, buttermilk, yogurt, cottage cheese, lemon, cream of tartar, etc.) and it computes the best recipe based on targets for acid, fat, salt, sugar, and CO2. My particular favorite are the yeast-raised lemon ricotta kefir pancakes - the best I've ever had. The math is done in a small pure-ESM library: ingredient composition to component…
Jun 2026 · absurdlyoptimized.com · its alternatives →
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Salt of the Earth - 20: David Nevogt about founding Hubstaff and publicizing a revenue dashboard▲56
David Nevogt about Hubstaff and making his revenues public
2016 · its alternatives →
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Salt of the Earth - 28: Rob Mermin, Circus Smirkus▲58
Running away from home to start a circus
2016 · its alternatives →
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SALT▲114
The Pocket of restaurants, bars and cafes
2016 · its alternatives →
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SALT▲102
The simple, beautiful way to bookmark and share great places
2015 · its alternatives →
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Ambronite v5▲99
Drinkable Supermeal that quenches hunger for 5 hours.
2016 · its alternatives →
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99% Invisible - A Sea Worth its Salt▲68
The Salton Sea in California was formed by mistake
2016 · its alternatives →

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