This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- A book series about mental models
- An AI-powered landing page builder
- A collection of unscalable startup hacks
- The benefits of permissionless marketing
- A report about asynchronous communication
- A tool for combining ChatGPT with other services
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
Success is a staircase, not a door.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🚀 Mixo shared by Mehmet Gonullu
An AI-powered landing page builder to quickly launch and validate business ideas.
🤖 ChatGPT + WolframAlpha shared by Stewart Townsend
A tool that chains ChatGPT to services like WolframAlpha and Google Search. See it in use here.
📚 Great Mental Models shared by Jameson Lyon
A practical book series to improve your thinking and decision-making.
🎧 Listen To
Align yourself with other brands by promoting them in your work for free.
Compare yourself to bigger names of the same category familiar to your target audience.
Grow your brand, show the value of your product and strengthen your position within the industry.
🌟 Founder of the Week
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Alessandro does IT automation consulting for profit and builds Open Source software for fun. He is currently building Tiny Puppet. He is also a member of Trends Mastermind #0008.
What’s your most important habit?
Intermittent fasting. Cold showers also help.
What are you reading right now?
The Peripheral by Willian Gibson
William Gibson is the author of one of my favorite books: Neuromancer.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
reMarkable
I thought it was going to become the usual piece of technology that I may happen to use from time-to-time.
Now I use it to track habits, plan my day, organize thoughts, take call notes and (most of all) remind me how to write by hand.
What are you bullish on?
Tiny Puppet and the potential of the upcoming version 4 I’m working on. Being able to install, test, get info, troubleshoot EVERY application, on EVERY OS, in EVERY way.
I think it can be useful for different kinds of users: from developers, to sysadmin, from power users, to whoever knows what’s a terminal and needs to install (and do a lot more) any kind of application from it.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
⌨️ Monetized Open Source
Exclusive Deal: Alessandro is offering Trends.vc readers 20% off Puppet automation consulting services. Contact him at Example42.com and mention the coupon code TRENDS20.
🔧 Try This
Paul Graham says you should manually serve early customers. You’ll learn what they love, hate and what to improve.
See a collection of non-scalable things done by startups at the beginning of their journey.
📘 Read This
Live chats, calls and meetings eat up your time and energy.
Asynchronous communication helps you be more productive with fewer interruptions and more control over your time.
At Trends.vc, we use async communication to manage our fully remote team.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🧠 Bartosz Pietrucha unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching a 10-day standup streak
🤔 Mac Martine launched The Curious Innovator newsletter
🤖 Joel Pickin reached 100 subscribers for thisisbuiltwith.ai
🎧 Mehmet Gonullu started a podcast
🐦 Yuriy launched a Twitter bookmark organization tool
⚕️ Soma Mandal wrote her 100th post for Ansured
💯 Swapnil Puranik achieved a 100-day streak on Product Hunt
👥 Nik McFly, Vladyslav Budichenko and Santi Acosta unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
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