This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- A FIRE calculator
- A prompt marketplace
- A docuseries about psychedelics
- 12 methods to validate your business idea
- How Thomas Frank reached $100,000/mo selling Notion templates
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
This too shall pass.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
📊 TryValidated.com built and shared by Simon Daley
12 tried and tested methods to validate your business idea.
🧠 PromptBase prompt marketplace shared by Stewart Townsend
A marketplace for prompts that produce the best results in AI models like DALL·E and GPT-3.
💭 How to Change Your Mind shared by Swapnil Puranik
A docuseries on the history and uses of psychedelics.
👀 Watch This
$100,000+ Per Month Selling Notion Templates
This is the most high insights-per-minute conversation I’ve recently heard. Thomas Frank talks about setting “impossible” goals, why consistency matters and how to keep things simple.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“It’s been amazing over the years to meet like-minded people in Trends Pro from across the globe who all want to help, understand what you are doing, share knowledge, join your company and become your friends.”
Stewart is the co-founder of Podcast Hawk. A service that gets you booked as a podcast guest on auto-pilot. He is also the host of Trends Mastermind #0002.
What are you bullish on?
Text-to-Image/Video and AI-Driven Art. I believe the next Banksy will come from this space.
What’s your most important habit?
Everything I have to do is in a calendar.
Personal or business. Without enforcing this I would not be able to function. Tasks, appointments, meetings and car shows all go into my calendar. Reminders are set with updated tasks or nudges as well.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🤖 AI-Generated Content
This report is from 2 years ago. I have been bullish on this sector for a long time and if I had a time machine I would have invested.
🔧 Try This
FIRE Calculator: What if you move to another place?
This combines two of my favorite topics: Nomading and Financial Independence.
The Financial Independence Retire Early movement was also the topic of a recent report.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Alex Adamov, Kris Ruby and Jerome Green Jr unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups.
📝 Swapnil Puranik built 101 Days Goals Tracker in 8 hours.
⚙️ Prabhjot Singh Lamba started 100 Days of Automation Challenge.
🎨 Simon Daley set up his portfolio website.
📢 Kris Ruby did an AMA about PR, Publicity, AI and Content Strategy.
📘 Read This
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