This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🎠 A carousel maker tool
⌛ How to stop wasting your life
🕵️♂️ A social media monitoring tool
⛰️ A book on overcoming self-sabotage
🦾 How to use custom GPTs to be more productive
➡️ And more…
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🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🎠 aiCarousels shared by Shushant Lakhyani
A tool to create social media carousels fast
🕵️♂️ F5Bot shared by Elie Steinbock
A tool that notifies you if your keywords are mentioned on Reddit or Hacker News
⛰️ The Mountain Is You shared by Rafael Servatti
A book on overcoming self-sabotage through inner work and personal growth
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🎪 Simon revamped buildinpublic.page
📚 Eddie Forson built an AI agent to summarize content from Readwise
🎥 Elie Steinbock made a video on building open-source SaaS
🌐 Uwe Dreissigacker shipped a “Related blog posts” feature for BlogHandy
🧠 Myron unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching a 30-day standup streak
🐦 Tweet of the Week
🛠️ Tools of the Week
🐦 Typefully — Grow your Twitter audience faster
🔎 GummySearch — Discover new markets on Reddit
🖼️ Photo AI — Use AI to do a photo shoot
🔧 Try This
You Should Be Playing with GPTs at Work
People at top tech companies use custom GPTs to be more productive.
Here’s how you can do this too:
- Do competitor and category tracking on social media.
- Generate takeaways from sales conversations.
- Build a personal knowledge base.
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- The advantages of choosing to be bad at something.
- How your perception of time shapes your self-image.
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