This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- The Death Clock
- The Inner Scorecard
- A fast text-to-art tool
- An alternative to Zoom
- 100 curated growth strategies
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
Progress equals happiness.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🧈 Butter shared by Stewart Townsend
A collaboration-focused alternative to Zoom with a generous free plan.
📈 100 Growth Strategies shared by Yun
A free Airtable of 100 curated growth strategies from Indie Founders.
🖼️ Free AI Text-to-Art shared by Stewart Townsend
Fast text-to-art tool that shows you existing results for similar prompts.
📘 Read This
“The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard.”
— Warren Buffett
Do you have an inner scorecard or an outer scorecard? Most bootstrapped founders optimize for quality of life over optics. This shaped my philosophy on limiting stakeholder types.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“Being part of a community with 1,000+ builders in Trends Pro is a great way to share new ideas and bounce around thoughts. I came for the reports but stayed for the community.”
Uwe runs InvoiceBerry which helps small businesses send invoices quicker and gives them an easy way to accept payments. He just founded BlogHandy which helps website owners add blogs to sites in 2 minutes. He is also a member of Trends Mastermind #0004.
What are you bullish on?
Micro SaaS
Although we’ve seen more Micro SaaS projects in the past 5 years, I think there are still opportunities for hungry builders and entrepreneurs. Small businesses, remote workers, solopreneurs and digital nomads will need more solutions to manage their work and life.
What are you bearish on?
Most consultants and coaches in the business and marketing space. I don’t think they offer a good value for the money. This market inefficiency will solve itself. It seems like there are a few great ones that can charge top rates. The rest seem like mediocre or bad coaches that will be replaced by software, async platforms and communities.
What’s your most important habit?
My condensed morning routine. Mini workout, cold shower, protein shake, coffee and quick journaling session. When I get that done, my likelihood of a successful day is 10x.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🔷 Micro SaaS
I love everything about SaaS and prefer smaller/simple solutions over enterprise players.
🔧 Try This
I found the Death Clock through a Zero to One mastermind member.
It joined my list of death reminders:
- “Memento Mori” on my list of daily mantras
- A memento mori meme on my phone’s lock screen
- Now a countdown of life expectancy on new browser tabs
Reminders of death can push you to do scary things. Stack reminders to make the most of life.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Kuba Siwiec, Sunny Kay, David Steinley, Illés Vörös, Blake Weissman and Stephanie H. unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups.
🧱 Prabhjot Singh Lamba onboarded 9 users and built a landing page generator for Craftar.
👨💼 Adrian Divecha closed a new Web3 client for Pivotal Talent.
⚙️ Lola Ojabowale launched weekly integration alerts for Integrations Directory.
🔬 Soma Mandal launched a newsletter for Ansured.
🧠 Michael Pearson-Adams unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching a 30-day standup streak.
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