📜 How to Write Stories That Sell?

This week’s Founder Finds includes:

📜 54 storytelling tactics
🎙️ An AI content workflow tool
🔮 10 ways to predict future trends
💭 A web content organization tool
📺 A build-in-public YouTube channel
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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

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A founder building in public on YouTube

💭 Are.na shared by Kevin Galang
A tool for saving and organizing meaningful web content

🎙️ Castmagic shared by Elia Zane
An AI tool that creates additional content from longform audio

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

💬 Sam McKay launched Prompt Array

🤖 Gunjan Titiya launched an AI literacy workshop

💌 Paul Metcalfe turned Newsletter Insiders into a paid community

🥉 Devon Artis got 3rd place in the Humane Intelligence Bias Bounty Challenge

👥 Tim Guruge unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups

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10 Ways to Prepare For The Unknown

Here are 10 ways how you can predict future trends in business and life:

If you’re over the age of 25, assume your initial reactions about new trends are wrong.
If people talk about it on Reddit, you’re early. If they talk about it on LinkedIn, you’re late.
If multiple smart people tell you about a new idea, don’t delay betting on it before you understand it. If you wait for society to educate you, you’ll be too late.

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54 Best Storytelling Tactics

Here are the best storytelling tactics to help you influence and inspire the people:

Designed to improve your storytelling skills and help you influence people.
The entire storytelling process: from understanding the need for a story to identifying your target audience.
Used by designers, founders and executives to communicate their ideas and achieve business goals.

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🔥 Why Piss Off 80% to Please 20%?

This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🦾 An AI assistant
✅ A web automation tool
🔥 How to build a strong brand
💬 A prompt engineering guide
🧒 Building a business while raising kids
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💬 Prompt Engineering Guide shared by Eddie Forson
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🧠 Grady Laksmono unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching a 30-day standup streak

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Piss Off 80% to Please 20%

Here’s how you can build a strong brand:

Have a clear personality and don’t be afraid to stand out.
Please a smaller group of people who truly resonate with your brand.
Use a bold voice to connect with your target audience and stay top of mind.

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How to Build a Business While Raising Kids

The stakes are high and the hours are long. But the rewards can be great if you can find the right balance:

Set the right priorities: Schedule your most important tasks strategically.
Build a strong support system: Rely on family, friends or professional services to help with childcare or business needs.
Set clear limits: Establish specific work hours and share them with your family and clients. Build physical and mental spaces to separate work from family time.

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💰 How to Build a $12,000/mo Micro-SaaS?

This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🤖 An AI developer toolkit
💰 A $12,000/mo micro-SaaS
🏷️ Black Friday pricing tactics
⚙️ Automating business growth
👩‍🏫 Why smart people are bad teachers
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Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom.

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The story of how a founder grew a micro-SaaS to $12,000/mo

🏷️ Why You Should Offer a Black Friday Discount shared by Katt Risen
Insights into Black Friday pricing of digital products

🤖 Sapling shared by Hitesh Kar
A toolkit to add AI-powered functionality to your apps

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

💯 Eddie Forson reached 100 subscribers on Substack

🔬 Simon reached 1,000 users on MicroAssets marketplace

🎓 Hj Barraza closed the first client for Astraed for Education

👨‍💻 Gunjan Titiya wrote about connecting AI with cloud services

🪦 Ash built a tombstone generator

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How to Automate Your Business Growth?

To boost growth, you need to solve the right problem for the people who know about it and are willing to solve it:

Solve a painful problem. This sets a real business apart from a pet project.
Build credibility. Your customers should trust you and your product. Otherwise, they won’t sign up.
Build customer avatars. Your customers should be aware of the problem and are willing to solve it. You can’t build a great user acquisition strategy if you don’t know who you’re targeting.

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Why Are Smart People Bad Teachers?

The curse of knowledge occurs when you know something so well that you forget what it’s like not to know it.

This makes it hard to explain things to others in a way they can understand.

Here’s how to deal with it:

Know your audience: Ask your potential customers a few questions before starting your sales pitch.
Simplify your language: Use simple language and clear examples to make your point.
Show, don’t tell. A picture can be worth a thousand words.

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🎬 How to Make Viral Videos with AI?

This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🎬 An AI text-to-video tool
🎨 43 design best practices
🗺️ What is problem mapping?
❤️ A book on customer loyalty
🗂️ A knowledge management app
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Never stop learning, the world is constantly evolving.

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🗂️ Capacities shared by Reme Ekoh
A note-taking and knowledge management tool

🎬 Zebracat shared by Pavels Gurskis
A text-to-video tool for marketing videos

❤️ Never Lose a Customer Again shared by Maciej Cupial
A book on building customer loyalty

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🎙️ Shiv Mehta started season 2 of the Proof of Work Podcast

🧰 AJ curated 170 free tools for founders

🛖 Simon updated the landing page of Hacker Cabin

🤖 Maciej Cupial started an AI podcast for Calendesk

🎓 Devon Artis wrote about his experience on taking the AWS AI Practitioner Beta Exam

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How to Solve The Right Problems?

Use problem mapping to start solving problems that actually matter:

Break down a problem into smaller parts. See how they connect and figure out which part to tackle first.
Explore all possible causes of stalled growth. Such as app glitches, confusing design changes or increased competition.
Predict future challenges by thinking ahead. Think of the potential consequences of your decisions to avoid future crises.

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43 Design Practices of Great Products

Interaction design separates good products from great products:

Make it obvious: When a user can take an action, make it clear.
Use scarcity: Let your users know when something is in limited supply.
Show benefits everywhere: Your user is always asking “what’s in it for me?”

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🤖 How to Run Your Business with AI?

This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🗣️ An AI voice dictation tool
🤖 Tips to run your business with AI
⚙️ A WordPress automation platform
🧬 A blueprint to increase your lifespan
📋 An open source project management tool
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Close the gap between who you are and who you want to be.

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⚙️ SureTriggers shared by Daniel Berggren
A WordPress automation platform

🗣️ Wispr Flow shared by Elie Steinbock
An AI voice dictation tool to type with your voice

📋 Plane shared by Varun Sogani
An open source project management tool

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

📊 Hj Barraza got the first paid subscribers for Astraed

🏷️ Simon is collecting Black Friday deals on Real SaaS Deals

👑 Maciej Cupial reached a 1,000-day standup streak

🎵 Darren Travel released a music album

👥 Varun Sogani unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups

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How Do Top Founders Use AI to Run Their Business?

You’re missing a lot by not using AI to automate writing, thinking and creative tasks:

Use AI to help with the writing: Ideation, improving clarity, fact checking and more.
Sift through market research: Summarize industry insights and complex data.
Build prototypes fast: Validate business ideas faster with AI coding assistants.

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How to Increase Your Lifespan?

Brian Johnson’s speed of aging is slower than 99% of 20-year olds.

Steal his blueprint to help you age slower than your friends:

Optimize all aspects of your health. Including diet, exercise, sleep and supplements.
Have a strict daily routine. Follow a carefully designed diet with specific calorie targets, workouts and sleep protocol.
Track and get better. Do regular blood testing and other health assessments to track progress and edit the program as needed.

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🎞️ How to Edit Videos with AI?

This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🤖 An LLM interface
🎞️ An AI video editor
📰 A tech news aggregator
🌱 120+ creative growth tactics
💸 The benefits of charging yearly
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Perfect is a myth. So publish.

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🤖 OpenRouter shared by Stewart Townsend
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🎞️ VEED.IO shared by Eddie Forson
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📰 Techmeme shared by Jean Lucas Lima
An old school aggregator site for tech news

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🧩 Hitesh Kar made a video summarizer Chrome extension

📊 Hj Barraza launched an AI business coach for managers

🛡️ M. Yousuf Faisal opened the waitlist for Securing Things Academy

👨‍💻 Elie Steinbock posted a code review video and got 3,000 views in 36 hours

💭 James Braun soft-launched Screenshots of My Worst Fears

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Charge Per Year, Not Per Month

Dozens of founders have used this method to transform the cash-flow of their businesses.

Now it’s your turn:

Customers who pay yearly tend to stick around longer.
Annual billing lets you get paid upfront, giving you more money to grow.
If someone cancels early, you have lots of options on how to handle refunds.

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The Marketing Playbook For The 1%

Marketing is an open-world game.

There are 2 paths to take:

The traditional path: paid ads, SEO, influencer marketing, cold emails.
Try new things: You experiment with creative tactics, discover hidden channels and encounter wild opportunities. This path is difficult and risky, but incredibly rewarding.

Here are 120+ creative growth tactics to step up your marketing game.

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🎮 How to Gamify a SaaS?

This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🎨 An AI website rater
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🦾 A list of AI agent repositories
🎮 17 SaaS gamification techniques
🎯 A simple change for better conversions
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You need more courage than intelligence to get what you want from life.

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✨ Jitter shared by Wojtek Wozniak
A tool to create animated content fast

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🦔 Thomas Sorheim Danielsen posted an update on building Remarkable Name

🎓 Devon Artis wrote about studying with AI

🎮 Myron updated the landing page of Leveret Games

🎤 Eddie Forson gave a talk at the IFOA Life Conference

🧢 Wojtek Wozniak designed a hat

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17 SaaS Gamification Techniques

Here’s how you can boost engagement with gamification:

See if gamification fits your product: It works best for products that involve learning, sales, project management, customer support or health (wellness).
Pick the right method: Progress bars, badges, points, leaderboards, milestones, etc. Pick the ones that align with your product’s goals and user motivations.
Be strategic: Understand your users, set clear goals and design the right user journey to measure success.

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Easiest Hack to Get Better Conversions

Using simpler language can lead to better conversions.

Read these:

“Reciprocity is a psychological factor that increases compliance.”
“When you give people stuff, they’re more likely to give you stuff back.”

Same meaning. Different words.

Simpler language will help your audience understand your message.

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🎓 How to Learn Gen AI?

This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🎓 A generative AI course
🔗 A SaaS link building strategy
📺 How MrBeast solved YouTube
🔍 An app and startup directory
🧰 A side project marketing guide
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To get your first customer, build for yourself.

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🔍 10words shared by Anthony DeLuise
A collection of apps and startups with 10-word descriptions

🎓 5-Day Gen AI Intensive Course shared by Reme Ekoh
An online course by Google on the fundamentals of generative AI

🔗 SaaS Link Building shared by Maciej Cupial
A backlink strategy for SaaS websites

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🎥 Sam McKay made a video showcasing the new features of Data Mentor

🚀 Cameron Rambert deployed the MVP of DoHQ

📦 Simon made the first sale on brandboxd

👨‍💻 Bernardt J. Vogel built a tech news aggregator

🧠 Devon Artis unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching a 30-day standup streak

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How to Get Clients With Engineering-as-Marketing?

Here’s how you can do marketing that doesn’t feel like marketing:

Engineering-as-Marketing occurs when you build free tools to gain brand awareness.
These tools can generate leads and boost SEO while offering value to users in return.
To be successful, your tools should be valuable, target the right customers, and align with your core product.

See our report on Side Project Marketing to learn more.

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How MrBeast Solved YouTube

Steal these strategies used by MrBeast to achieve high audience retention in your YouTube videos:

Use a 2-step formula in the hook to meet the expectations set by the title and thumbnail.
Use 3 elements in the body of your videos: share context, add stakes (payoff) and build a curiosity gap.
Use a 2-part strategy in the outro to keep viewers watching until the very end and leave the video on a high note.

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👀 How to Make Viral Shorts?

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📙 A SaaS company playbook
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🗣️ How to improve your speaking
⚖️ A SaaS comparison page checklist
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💼 Why are we working more than ever?
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Where most see problems, see opportunities.

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🗣️ How to Speak So That People Want to Listen shared by M. Yousuf Faisal
A presentation on practices to improve how you speak

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⚡ Ren Saguil is hosting 2 Lightning Lessons on Maven

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How a Student App Got 100,000,000 Organic Views

Lessons from getting 100 million views and $400,000 in sales with $0 ad spend:

Consistency is Key: Keep posting content, even if you don’t see immediate results. The more you post, the higher your chances of a video going viral.
Capitalize on Viral Content: When a video goes viral, make variations of it and repost it on multiple platforms and accounts.
Be Direct and Transparent: Don’t try to trick people with subtle product placement. Clearly explain and showcase your product in your videos. Authenticity resonates better with audiences and leads to higher conversions.

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Why Don’t We Have a 15-Hour Work Week?

Economists thought that by 2030 we’d work 15-hour weeks.

They thought that new tech would let us make a living in a day, while relaxing the rest of the week.

But we seem to be working more than ever, with technology adding extra tasks to our work.

Learn how we all got into this mess and how to focus on fulfilling work instead of little tasks.

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25 Strategies Used by Most Successful Apps

Here’s how great mobile apps write copy, set pricing and win customers:

67% off is the magic discount number
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Simple, direct and functional pages convert better than cute designs

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5 Things To Do Before You Quit

Make sure you do these things before going all-in on business:

Build a safety net: You’ll be able to take risks and focus on your business without the pressure of immediate financial needs.
Start your side hustle while working: This way, you can build your business gradually and minimize the financial risk.
Reframe the fear of failure: Don’t let the fear of failure hold you back from pursuing your dreams. You lose 100% of bets you don’t take.

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