This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🦾 A list of AI agents
📈 The power of tiny gains
👕 A project estimation tool
🎨 A list of design principles
🤖 How to fine-tune GPT-3.5
🕑 How to gain control of your time
🧠 Why smart people have bad ideas
🐄 How to stand out in a crowded market
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
Learning how to break habits can serve you in life almost better than anything else.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🦾 AI Agents Landscape shared by Mehmet Gonullu
An overview of currently available AI agents
👕 T-Shirt Sizing Project Estimation shared by David Fu
A project estimation tool based on T-shirt sizes
🧠 Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas shared by Royce Johnson
An essay on the challenges of creating products that people will want to buy
📘 Read This
Continuous improvement occurs when you make small positive changes each day.
If you get 1% better each day for 1 year, you’ll end up 37x better at the end of it.
Here’s how you can start getting better right now:
- Do More of What Already Works: Floss every day and never miss workouts.
- Avoid Tiny Losses: Lower your credit card limits and eat fewer unhealthy foods.
- Measure Backward: Make decisions based on what happened, not what will happen.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“I started using Trends Pro at the end of 2022. However, the new year started with two deaths in my family and that took my attention away from work. I recently returned to the Trends Pro Community. Today, I’m just over a week into a standup streak shooting for the 30-day mastermind goal.”
Frank is building ENC Explorer. This is a travel guide for anyone that visits or relocates to eastern North Carolina.
What’s your most important habit?
Putting my health first. Exercise, community service and family time are anchors in my calendar.
What are you reading right now?
I’ve just finished Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows. I’m reading Purple Cow by Seth Godin and Ready, Fire, Aim by Michael Masterson will be next. I’m looking for patterns related to remarkable businesses that I can launch fast.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
ChatGPT API. Everyone has access to these tools, just like we all have access to website builders. There is an opportunity right now to develop niche tools based on clever prompt engineering and simple user interfaces.
What are you bullish on?
Prototyping AI tools. Most people won’t become prompt engineers. If you find a clever way to transform user input into a valuable output, there is an opportunity to build niche tools.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
I have a portfolio of niche websites, so I appreciate the broad list of report topics. They help me find content topics for new or existing websites.
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🔧 Try This
An open-source collection of 1,448 design principles and methods that form the basis of good products.
Including 195 real-life examples used by organizations, individuals and product teams.
👀 Watch This
How to Gain Control of Your Free Time
Key to time management is setting priorities.
If you don’t have time to do something, it means it’s not a priority.
You say you’re busy but if the water heater breaks and there’s water all over your basement, you’ll find time to deal with the mess.
Time is a choice.
Even if we are busy we have time for what matters.
When we focus on what matters we can build the lives we want in the time we’ve got.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🤖 Elie Steinbock made a tutorial for fine-tuning GPT-3.5 Turbo
🎥 Maisha Cannon made a video comparing Claude and GPT-4
📈 Jakub Nowikowski wrote a monthly update for Languive
🔒 Anderson Dadario launched a free security tool
🗣️ Meiko S. Patton wrote a guide on making talking photo avatars
🧠 Royce Johnson, Meiko S. Patton and Ryan Booher unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching 30-day standup streaks
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