This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🧘 6 simple habits
💬 A speech-to-text app
🎞️ An AI video generator
💰 Building a $1B startup at 23
❓ 12 questions to guide your work
🪝 A book on habit-forming products
➡️ And more…
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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
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👥 Ka Yi Hui unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
🤖 Elie Steinbock launched Full Stack AI on Product Hunt
🎨 Simon launched Design Rack
💼 Sarim Khalid launched AI/ML Jobs on Product Hunt
🤾♀️ David Getchel updated Random Hiit
🧰 Errol Tiozon hosted a Trends Pro workshop on Profitable Customer Acquisition with Lead Magnets
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🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🎞️ HeyGen shared by Maciej Cupial
A tool to make high-quality videos with AI avatars
🪝 Hooked shared by Tony Tong
A book on building habit-forming products
❓ 12 Favorite Problems shared by Harsha MV
An essay on using questions to guide your work
📘 Read This
Lifestyle and Habits that Will Upgrade Your Life
Here are 6 simple lifestyle changes that will improve your health and productivity:
- Avoid sugar
- Learn to box
- Lower your screen time
- Meditate every morning
- Drink cappuccino over espresso
- Nap for 30 minutes during the day
🌟 Founder of the Week
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Avy is building Avyleg.com. He works with companies and professionals who feel stuck with their strategy, management practices or work processes. He shares his wisdom and resources in his free newsletter, Masters of Babel.
What’s your most important habit?
Reading the newsletters I am subscribed to every morning. I’ve been doing this for 5 years.
Great content helps me jump-start my brain better than coffee.
What are you reading right now?
A History of Ideas by Jacques Le Goff.
Ideas are at the core of any great product and service.
Excellent execution is a function of unorthodox ideas.
What product or service do you wish existed?
A browser extension that automatically hides LinkedIn posts that include expressions such as “It’s been an honor”, “I am humbled” and “Exciting news!”. This would help me sift through the noise better.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
MurmurType. It helps me transcribe and translate my speech.
And ChatGPT Plus.
What are you bullish on?
Micro-education businesses
People are losing faith in traditional education and training frameworks.. If these businesses build state-of-the-art methodologies, our human capital will get much more effective.
What are you bearish on?
Automated content creation.
We are past the point of no return. People are sick of reading cliches and SEO-oriented obvious formulas.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🖖 Open-Source AI
I’m not a programmer. This report helped me find tools to play with AI without learning how to code.
What else?
Feel free to reach out to me on Avyleg.com or X (Twitter) if I can help in any way.
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High School Dropout Builds a $1B Startup at 23
Samir Vasavada founded Vise, an asset manager for financial advisors.
Here’s how he’s building a $1B startup at 23 years old:
- Have as many failures as fast as possible.
- Talk to your customers. Watch how they use your product.
- Have the right people that are solving the right problem at the right speed.
That’s how startups grow.
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