This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🚫 Startup ideas to avoid
▶️ A screen recorder tool
🚀 How to go from 0 to $5M ARR
🔗 How to get high-quality backlinks
✨ A collection of lightweight web animations
➡️ And more…
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🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🚀 How to Go from 0 to $5M ARR shared by Stewart Townsend
A collection of growth hacks for different distribution channels
▶️ Zight Screen Recorder shared by Elia Zane
Easily create, edit and share videos, screenshots and GIFs of your screen
✨ LottieFiles shared by Maciej Cupial
A library of lightweight animations for websites and apps
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🐦 Tweet of the Week
🛠️ Tools of the Week
🔎 GummySearch — Discover new markets on Reddit
⏱️ Rize — Maximize your productivity with AI
🖼️ Photo AI — Use AI to do a photo shoot
👀 Watch This
Avoid These Tempting Startup Tarpit Ideas
Tarpit ideas are the startup ideas that seem good, but have been tried without success.
They might seem so easy and good that it’s unbelievable that no one has done it — but when you look a bit deeper, you realize that they have been tried. Over, and over again.
If your idea has been tried before, do your research and understand why it didn’t work.
Assume the founders who tried before were very smart, very determined people.
What’s different now?
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How to Get High Quality Backlinks
Brian Dean shares the top 7 strategies that helped him get 1,600,000 backlinks for his website:
- Use HARO to become a source for authoritative reporters and bloggers.
- Make “skyscraper” content that resembles top-performing competitor pages.
- Use content formats proven to generate links: “why” posts, “what” posts, infographics and videos.
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