This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🧩 An AI agency
📒 The Claude playbook
💳 When to send a refund?
💀 25 hard truths about solo founders
🐙 Google’s autonomous coding agent
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
The best time to make hard decisions is before they become urgent.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
📒 The Claude Playbook shared by Elie Steinbock
A guide for business operators for mastering Claude
🧩 The Agency shared byHitesh Kar
A collection of AI agent specialists forming a full digital agency
🐙 Jules shared byRich Tank
A coding agent from Google that works autonomously
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🧿 Dru Riley published “The Four Games of Life”, on the cost of treating sales like code
👥 Jason A Erickson built GetRallied
🎨 Elie Steinbock made a video about Paper.design
🎬 Yuyu is building a curated movie directory
📘 Read This
Why Do So Many Startups Die Because Of Co-Founders?
The distance between “I have an idea” and “someone paid me” can be shorter than you think.
Here’s what works for solo founders:
- Run the service manually before building software. Learn edge cases, then productize.
- Start with contractors. Browserbase was built this way and a year later it’s a Series B company.
- Recognize when co-founder searching is avoidance. If you’ve been looking for 3 months, ask what you’d be doing if you went alone.
🛠️ Tools of the Week
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🎞️ Gling.ai — Let AI edit your videos
🖼️ Aragon AI — Use AI to do a photo shoot
🎙️ Podsqueeze — Automate podcast content creation
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When Should You Just Give Them Their Money Back?
“Every time I’ve fought a customer over a refund instead of processing it, I’ve regretted it. The math is brutal.”
Here’s why you should just refund them:
- Disputes consume hours of arguing and that time is worth more than the refund.
- Don’t refund more than they paid and if they want a full refund, stop working together.
- Fighting creates an angry customer who’ll talk about how bad you are. Reputation costs more than the refund.
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