This week’s Founder Finds includes:
📐 Taste for agents
🪓 An LLM token optimizer
🎯 A positioning framework
🚀 A collection of marketing skills
🤝 Everyday negotiation strategies
➡️ And more…
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It’s often easier to double your conversion than double your traffic.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🚀 AI Agent Marketing Skills shared by Hitesh Kar
Skills to give agents structured marketing knowledge
📐Taste for Makers shared by Gabriel
An essay on simplifying systems. Applies to human and AI makers
🪓 Rust Token Killer shared by Elie Steinbock
A tool to compress terminal output before it hits your AI
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
✖️ Dru Riley published Skateboard to Space Station, on why ugly products win
🛠️Matt Spear wrote about personal software
💯 Kieran Ball became a Claude Code instructor for 100 School
🔄 Josh Kubicki wrote about self-improving workflows
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What Are The 8 Positioning Principles Technical Founders Miss?
Stop pitching features and start using these positioning rules to win customers:
- Show the exact ‘price’ of sticking to old solutions.
- Hide the technical complexity, highlight only the final result.
- Explicitly reject customers and features that don’t fit your core.
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What Negotiation Strategies Can Help You Get Unstuck in Everyday Situations?
You negotiate far more often than you realize. From deciding what to have for dinner to handling roommate disputes.
- Use a win-win frame: highlight how both parties benefit from a solution
- Have strong alternatives: a solid backup plan gives you psychological power and prevents desperate decisions
- Offer 3 options: instead of yes-or-no standoffs, offer multiple solutions that signal you’re collaborative, not confrontational
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