This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🤔 What is the Claude “think” tool
😈 Subversive marketing strategies
⚖️ Trusting your gut vs. facing reality
⚡ How LLMs benefit individuals first
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Daily small steps beat occasional big jumps.

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💻 Cursor Playbooks shared by Elie Steinbock
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🤔 Claude “Think” Tool shared by Eddie Forson
A new approach that improves Claude’s problem-solving skills

⚡ Power to the People shared by Sam McKay
An essay on how LLMs benefit individuals before organizations

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

⭐ Kevin Galang is starting The $1M Year Project

🖼️ Eddie Forson wrote about OpenAI’s image generation model

🎮 Elie Steinbock made a game about cleaning your inbox

🎧 Hj Barraza reached 1,000 subscribers for Audioresúmenes

💿 Darren Travel made a music album for vibe coding

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How Can You Use Uncomfortable Truths to Fuel Growth?

Balancing founder optimism with brutal honesty is often what separates modest startups from breakout successes.

• Don’t assume “you know better” – by dismissing feedback, you’re missing something important
• Watch for true product-market fit beyond friendly customers – word-of-mouth is a better indicator than when they just pay you money
• Build deep market insight before picking an idea – many startups struggle because they chase trends without understanding where the market is heading. Breakout solves this problem.

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Why Should You Play Dirty?

With lower entry barriers to building products, finding clever ways to get attention is crucial:

• Find your unfair advantage: analyze your product, market and distribution channels for unique opportunities others miss.
• Turn weaknesses into strengths, find new buyer segments or combine complementary products to boost perceived value.
• Stay ethical – never assume consent, use dark patterns, break laws or punch down. The goal is being clever and original, not harmful.

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💭 46 predictions on AI
💪 An essay on high agency
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🎯 Getting from “Don’t Care” to “Buy Now”
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💭 46 Predictions on AI shared by Sam McKay
46 implications of recent developments in AI

💪 High Agency shared by Eddie Forson
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📊 Aha shared by Shushant Lakhyani
A multi-agent AI tool for influencer marketing

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

👨‍💻 Elie Steinbock made a video on his Cursor MDC rules

📅 Maciej Cupial reached $20,000 MRR with Calendesk

🎨 Yuyu added a color matching game to CMYK Pantone

🥇 Grady Laksmono reached 1st place on Uneed with FinBud.ai

📄 Shushant Lakhyani collected 10 AI cheatsheets

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How Can You Build a SaaS While Working Full-Time?

Do this if you want to build a SaaS business while working full-time:

• Automate the boring stuff: Use tools like Zapier for data tasks, templates for common emails and batch your social posts. Free up time for what matters.
• Break it down, stay connected: Split big goals into weekly wins, join communities and build in public to keep your ultimate goal visible. Small progress compounds over time.
• Focus on high-impact hours: Block out your most productive time (early morning or late night), batch tasks and protect your energy. Treat them like meetings you can’t miss.

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Turn Users From “Don’t Care” to “Buy Now”

Many businesses make the mistake of leading with their own story.

They’re trying to tell their audience about what makes their business so great.

Then they’re confused when their audience reacts with a shrug and says, “I don’t care.

”Here’s how you can get your audience from “Don’t Care” to “Buy Now” with the right marketing copy.

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A new playbook for marketing AI startups

🦾 Agents shared by Eddie Forson
A deep dive into how AI agents work

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

⏱️ Michael Pearson-Adams launched Zahxo

💻 Sam McKay opened the waitlist for KnowCode

🎪 Simon launched Build in Public

🤖 Eddie Forson wrote about DeepSeek v3

👥 Alper Tunga unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups

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How Did This 17-Year Old Build a $1.12M/Year AI App?

Here’s how Zach Yadegari built a million-dollar AI app that tracks calories:

• Design for sharing and simplicity: Create a “wow moment” that makes users want to share (like instant calorie counting from photos). Keep everything else dead simple – one core feature, clear pricing, easy onboarding.
• Master influencer marketing: Find creators with real engagement (1-3% rate, 50,000+ views), negotiate bundled deals ($750/video) and engage in comments to boost algorithmic reach.
• Use smart pricing: Tie free trials to annual plans ($99/year), break down yearly cost to look cheaper monthly ($8.33 vs $9.99) and be transparent with trial reminders.

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How to Get Paid Users with Feature Gating?

Great products tactfully guide users from free to paid plans without frustrating them.

• Display progress toward usage limits, like Todoist showing 3/5 projects used, instead of surprising users when they hit the limit
• When users hit a limit, don’t just ask for money – show the full value of upgrading, like Beehiiv’s feature landing pages inside their app
• Signal what’s premium before users click – use consistent visual markers (like Buffer’s purple lightning) to show which features need upgrading

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🧰 Tools to simplify your life
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✍️ A community to practice writing
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🎞️ Mosaic shared by Sam McKay
An AI agent for video editing

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🎧 Hj Barraza reached $1,000 ARR with the Audioresúmenes newsletter

🔍 Simon got the first paying user on DomainFinder.xyz

💯 Tim Guruge hit 100 users in their SaaS

📅 Jason A Erickson launched the waitlist for 1yr.net

🧠 Alejandro Arango unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching a 30-day standup streak

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What Tools Can Simplify Your Day?

Here’s how a father of a newborn automated his life with tech to escape overwhelm:

• Build healthy habits through fitness apps like Ladder and cooking apps like Deglaze
• Automate mundane tasks instead of relying on willpower and self-discipline – use tools like Brick to block distractions
• Take control of finances with budgeting apps like Copilot Money and robo-advisors like Wealthfront for stress-free money management

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What Is The $0 to $50,000/mo SEO Roadmap?

Here’s a complete plan to grow your site to $50,000/month with SEO:

• Optimize pages close to ranking: Find your keywords that are ranking on page 2 or bottom of page 1 in Google, then improve those pages first. These are your fastest wins.
• Build authority smartly: Mix guest posts, social signals and strategic linking. Focus on top-funnel content if new, mid/bottom-funnel if established. Double down on what works.
• Study close competitors: Look for businesses with similar domain rating, steal their low-difficulty keywords and analyze their backlink sources for opportunities.

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📨 10 profitable newsletter ideas
🧠 An interview with the founder of Shopify
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The expert in anything was once a beginner.

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🧠 Tobi Lütke’s Leadership Playbook shared by Kevin Galang
A podcast episode with the CEO of Shopify

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✉️ Elie Steinbock built an AI email automation for Inbox Zero

🌐 Yuyu wrote about how to increase domain rating

📅 Maciej Cupial was featured in the Indieniche newsletter

📦 Simon finished the first brand package auction on BrandBox’d

🧠 Gary Leech unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching a 30-day standup streak

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How Can You Build a Marketing Strategy From Scratch?

A successful go-to-market strategy needs methodically testing your way to predictable growth, not just launching and hoping for the best.

• Make your difference obvious: tell exactly why you’re better than competitors, not just that you’re “AI-powered” or “all-in-one”
• Build evidence: use early customer wins to get bigger and more demanding customers, instead of trying to win everyone immediately
• Match your message to your stage: early on, focus on customers who have urgent problems and will buy fast, not on those needing lots of proof

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What Are 10 Profitable Newsletter Ideas to Start In 2025?

Here are 10 proven newsletter business ideas you can launch this weekend:

• Start with niche topics like overseas marketing, real estate updates or local events, then monetize through job boards, sponsorships and premium content
• Build trust through unique, high-quality content before expanding into courses, software or marketplaces
• Focus on underserved audiences with purchasing power and growing interest in specific topics

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👥 AI audience simulation
👨‍💻 A React component library
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🤖 The latest trends in AI startups
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👨‍💻 21st.dev shared by Elie Steinbock
A library of ready-to-use React Tailwind components

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

💬 Simon built a chat companion app and published its codebase

🛠️ Eddie Forson shared his thoughts on AI Engineer Summit 2025

💻 Tim Guruge launched a new landing page for Ivolve Dev

📈 Elie Steinbock posted a monthly update for Inbox Zero

🎵 Darren Travel released the music album A Year of Discord, AI Agents

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What is That Nobody Is Seeing in the AI Revolution?

Learn how solo founders and small teams can build successful products fast:

• Stay flexible with tech: winners adapt fast to new AI capabilities instead of getting locked into one tool or approach
• Target problems enterprises can’t solve: big companies are too slow to keep up with AI’s pace – this creates opportunities for agile startups
• Build with minimum resources: AI tools let tiny teams do work that used to require massive scale, from customer support to sales to engineering

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How to Work Faster with ChatGPT, V0 and Cursor?

If you’re freelancing, try this powerful workflow for fast UI design with AI tools:

• Start with clear vision: Use ChatGPT to define every detail of design direction before touching V0. Use real UI examples as inspiration to guide the AI.
• Master the feedback loop: Get ChatGPT’s UI feedback on visuals, refine in V0, repeat. Perfect your landing page first as it sets the style for everything.
• Polish strategically: Reuse successful elements across screens and finish with Cursor for final tweaks. Smart planning beats rushing through designs.

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💼 Gary Leech launched the Govjob.pro Substack

📈 Ren Saguil is hosting a workshop on startup growth

🌐 Simon built a domain valuation estimator

🎲 Yuyu launched a random number generator

🎵 Noel Jackson launched an early access landing page for Sonica

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How to Find Profitable Content Ideas?

See how to pick profitable content topics that attract buyers instead of just likes:

• Create unique, trustworthy content that builds expertise in a never-ending field
• Pick topics with paying audiences who have specific problems and limited solutions
• Target growing markets where your audience already spends time and talks about the topic

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How To Build The Perfect Home Workout Plan?

This free, open-source app lets you build custom home workouts.

Just tell it what equipment you have (like dumbbells, bands or bodyweight), what muscles you want to build and get personalized workout plans instantly.

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🦾 The Era of Agent Experience shared by Sam McKay
A blog post on optimizing for AI agents in web development

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👤 Josh Walker launched his personal site

🔢 Yuyu launched Sudoku Unlimited

🍲 Alejandro Arango built a meal planning app

🔎 Simon launched Domain Finder

🤖 Eddie Forson wrote about Gemini 2.0

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Will AI End Employment in 5 Years?

You might stop working sooner than you think.

See how AI could end employment as we know it and what that means for your happiness:

• Stay mentally healthy by focusing on social connections and activities
• Realize that many full-time jobs have vanished before – ATMs replaced bank tellers, robots replaced factory workers
• The future might not be jobless, but different: as long as humans have problems, we’ll need solutions – but be prepared for radical change

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How Does Your Brain Respond to Music?

Try this 30-minute neural frequency track for deep work:

• Experience science-backed focus music
• Test how brain-optimized frequencies affect your focus
• Use this track for a focus block when you need to get work done

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🦉 The Duolingo Handbook
💰 Finding purpose after success
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🔥 How to speed up typing in Chrome
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🦉 The Duolingo Handbook shared by Barun Pandey
A framework by Duolingo on how to build a great product

🔥 Text Blaze shared by Gary Leech
A Chrome extension to speed up typing

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

💸 Hitesh Kar reached $1,000 in revenue for Horsy.ai

🤖 Eddie Forson wrote about DeepSeek v3

♻️ Alejandro Arango built a recycling sorting app

🌐 Simon wrote about 4-letter domain names

🧠 Josh Walker unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching a 30-day standup streak

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

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🔎 GummySearch — Discover new markets on Reddit

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What Are Proven 34 Tactics to Get Your First 1,000 Customers?

Here are proven tactics for getting your first 1,000 customers:

• Find pain points everywhere: Watch negative reviews, Reddit complaints and competitor outages. Swoop in with solutions and custom demos for high conversion.
• Target decision makers: Connect with companies during key moments – new CTOs, remote policies, security audits. They’re actively looking for tools then.
• Use AI as bait: Create free niche AI tools, filters and chatbots. When they go viral, convert users to your main product.

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How Can Wealth Create a Life Crisis?

Learn from the founder of Loom after selling his company and never needing to work again:

• Realize that doing hard things and embracing uncertainty can lead to personal growth
• Accept that finding purpose takes time and doesn’t require constant productivity or achievement
• Focus on inner growth and authenticity instead of chasing external validation and grand missions

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This week’s Founder Finds includes:

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📨 A guide to newsletter growth
👨‍💻 A $20,000/m SaaS built with AI
🚀 What YCombinator teaches in 10 minutes
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👨‍💻 $20,702 SaaS from Cursor and DeepSeek shared by Sam McKay
The story of building a profitable SaaS with AI tools

📊 Julius AI shared by Shushant Lakhyani
An AI data analyst tool

📨 0 to 3,000 Subscribers shared by Paul Metcalfe
A guide to growing a newsletter in 2025

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🤖 Jason A Erickson launched Age of Robots

🎯 Simon launched a focus mode tool

🎞️ Joel Pickin opened up the waitlist for VidBounty

💲 Ren Saguil wrote about proven sales follow-ups

👥 Josh Walker unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

🎨 Relume — Build React websites with AI

🔎 GummySearch — Discover new markets on Reddit

🎬 Zebracat — Create marketing videos with AI

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How to Build a Cold Email Growth System?

Learn how to build a scalable cold email system that brings in 5-10 new customers weekly.

• Build proper infrastructure with secondary domains and multiple mailboxes to protect email reputation
• Set up automated warmup systems and verification tools to ensure emails reach primary inboxes
• Keep deliverability high by warming up accounts, verifying addresses and following daily sending limits of 30 emails per mailbox

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Can You Learn YCombinator’s Startup Secrets in 10 Minutes?

Here’s everything YCombinator teaches its startups in 10 minutes:

• Build a strong founding team with at least 50% engineers who can survive on savings while building the product
• Create solutions for frequent daily problems rather than rare yearly ones and get an MVP to users within 2 months
• Focus relentlessly on growth through organic sharing or B2B referrals instead of paid ads, while keeping expenses minimal

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