This week’s Founder Finds includes:
💡 How to build agency
🌙 The night shift workflow
📎 An AI agent orchestrator
⚡ The power of being responsive
🔍 A generative engine optimization tool
➡️ And more…
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The market doesn’t have to understand you. Clarity is your job.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
📎 Paperclip shared by Elie Steinbock
An agent orchestrator that manages a team to run a business
🌙 Night Shift Workflow shared by Gabriel
An agentic workflow where agents take the night shift
🔍 GEO-SEO-Claude shared by Hitesh & Jason A Erickson
A tool to optimize websites for AI-powered search engines
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🍀 Dru Riley published “How to Get Lucky in Life”, on luck as a design problem
⌨️ Elie Steinbock made a list of cool open source projects
🎞️ Dru Riley added YouTube auto-publishing to Multi
📅 Maciej Cupial shipped an AI assistant for Calendesk
🛠️ Knight built 3 product prototypes
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Why Will Getting Rejected Make You Stronger?
Getting rejected from things that matter is how you find out where your real limits are.
Do things others avoid:
- Test your limits. Apply for jobs you think you won’t get. Send emails that make you cringe.
- Meet people without an obvious reason. Great collaborations often come from random coffee chats.
- Get comfortable being bad at things. Ask dumb questions and look stupid. It’s the only way to level up.
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🎞️ Multi — Grow on YouTube on autopilot
📱 Rork — Build mobile apps with AI
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How Can You Beat Competitors by Simply Being Responsive?
Responding 48 hours later kills trust. The customer has no idea if you’re working on their problem or ignoring them.
Here’s what you should do:
- Add a specific timeline. “I’ll be back in touch by X” sets clear expectations.
- Recognize the urgency. Going silent on an urgent request amplifies stress.
- Send back a message immediately. “I’m looking into it” changes the experience from uncertainty to knowing someone’s on it.
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