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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Do you worry that you might be wasting your life?
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- Why people-pleasing doesn’t please people.
- The advantages of choosing to be bad at something.
- How your perception of time shapes your self-image.
Stop feeling anxious about your to-do list and start using time wisely.
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