This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- 5 daily habits for happiness
- A collection of copy swipe files
- How to run Stable Diffusion locally
- 3800+ case studies of successful businesses
- How to create work that resonates with your audience
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
Writing is the process by which we discover we don’t really know what we are talking about.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
✍️ Audience Map shared by Nash
A step-by-step process to create resonant work that matters to your audience.
🎨 DiffusionBee shared by Stewart Townsend
Run Stable Diffusion locally on your M1 Mac to generate images from text.
🏪 Starter Story shared by Victor Park
3800+ case studies of people starting successful businesses.
👀 Watch This
Would winning the lottery make you happier?
I’ve thought about hedonic adaptation on and off for the last decade.
In short, it means that we adjust to any environment. Good or bad.
We return to a baseline happiness level. No matter what.
But these daily habits seem to alter my baseline happiness level…
- Meditation
- Cold showers
- Strength training
- Intermittent Fasting
- Gratitude journaling
🌟 Founder of the Week
“I learn from everyone in my Trends Pro Mastermind and always look forward to my weekly call. In Trends Tribe, I meet amazing people for 1-1 chats.”
Prabhjot is building Craftar.io. A no-code platform that makes it easy and affordable to craft automations using a visual block language. He is also a member of Trends Mastermind #0002.
What are you bullish on?
Tech that automates or makes automation easy. Such as AI and No-Code. Automation allows us to focus on problems, ideas and solutions rather than mechanics.
As well as tech that enables new user experiences. Such as Chatbots, AR, VR, Haptics and WebGL. Technology that creates new experiences gives us new ways to engage, have fun, be creative and open up solutions to previously-hard-to-solve problems.
What’s your most important habit?
I spend at least an hour a day discovering new things which may or may not be related to my current focus. The exploration habit expands my horizons, feeds my curiosity and keeps me optimistic.
What are you reading right now?
Advanced Game Design and Game Thinking
There are games and systems which are easy to pick up and hard to master. But they keep you engaged throughout the journey. No-Code has a trade off between flexibility and accessibility. The more easy a tool is to use, the less flexible it is and vice versa. I’m exploring ways to minimize this trade off. Based on my current understanding, I think Game Design and Systems Thinking might provide useful frameworks and mechanics to approach solving this problem.
What product or service do you wish existed?
I have been coding since I was 7 years old. I had cervical spondylitis at 29 and was on bed rest for 6 months and couldn’t code.
The programming experience on the phone was horrible.
I realized there was no way to build software without sitting in front of a laptop or desktop. I came up with the idea to build Craftar to solve my problem. So that I can create software visually by connecting blocks. I wish that Craftar existed. So I’m building it.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🧱 No-Code
This report covered the landscape of No-Code. Which was really helpful and it also featured Craftar!
🔧 Try This
Copywriting is one of the highest-leverage skills that you can possess.
The more examples we have, the easier things are to do. Copy Book offers swipe files for common situations such as adding FAQs and value propositions to landing pages.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🆕 Tem, Victor Park and Kiet Phung became Trends Pro Members
🥇 Founder Finds became #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt
👥 Gokul Madan, Harit Rathi, Victor Park, Vinamra Agrawal, David K and Ryan Crownholm unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
💲 The Trends.vc Team added $100k+ in Startup Discounts to Trends Pro
📝 Tem launched HiveMind on Product Hunt
🎙️ Sean Hua launched his podcast Promise.fm
⭐ Ismaël Sow’s article Indie Hackers’ Hall of Fame reached the front page of Indie Hackers
🚀 Gokul Madan launched My First Million – Catalog of Greatness on Product Hunt
🧠 Kuba Siwiec unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching a 30-day standup streak
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