This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🤏 The power of small wins
🔍 SEO in the age of AI search
🚀 A $100 startup marketing plan
🤝 What is a personal user manual?
⚙️ A course on building agentic apps
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🔍 SEO for LLMs and AI search shared by Yuyu
A blog post on how Vercel is adapting to the changing SEO landscape

⚙️ Build and Optimize Agentic Apps shared by Sam McKay
A short course on using DSPy and MLflow for GenAI applications

🚀 $100 Startup Marketing Playbook shared by Elie Steinbock
A growth playbook for startups on a budget

📈 Breakout Market of the Week

Voice Training Apps help users improve their singing skills through interactive lessons and exercises. 

This market is growing fast: +50% in the last year – with a Breakout Score of 50. About 3,600 people search for these tools each month.

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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🎙️ Mike Williams recorded a podcast with the founder of Reverb

🌍 Farid built an IP geolocation API

🎧 Wojtek Wozniak made a tutorial on adding audio to Webflow blogs

🎪 Jakub Nowikowski is doing a build-in-public challenge

📝 Knight posted a monthly review for May

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

🎨 Relume — Build React websites with AI

🔎 Osum — Perform market research with AI

📝 AudioPen — Convert voice notes into text

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How Can ‘Laughably Small’ Daily Habits Transform Your Life?

Overnight transformations are a myth. The real path to success is modest.

Here’s how small wins create momentum:

• Break big goals into “micro-goals” that feel easy to complete each day.
• Build momentum through consistent small actions that compound over time.
• Celebrate small progress for positive feedback loops that feed long-term motivation.

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What Is The Cost Of Being Hard to Work With?

Knowing this helps your hires, colleagues and clients understand your expectations and working style.

It also helps you reflect on your strengths, weaknesses and areas for improvement.

It’s a win-win for you and your partners.

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👨‍💻 A vibe coding checklist
👥 A people search engine
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✨ An exercise to design your ideal life
🃏 The rules of tight aggressive entrepreneurship
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Do three things well instead of ten things badly.

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👨‍💻 Vibe Coding Checklist shared by Elia Zane
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👥 Clado shared by Lwany
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🔬 SaaS A/B Test Results shared by Elie Steinbock
4 SaaS landing page split tests explained

📈 Breakout Market of the Week

AI Code Reviewers help developers identify and fix code issues quickly and accurately. 

This market is growing fast: +22.2% in the last year – with a Breakout Score of 43. About 4,400 people search for these tools each month.

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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧠 Sam McKay launched KnowCode

💬 Devon Artis wrote about getting good at prompting

📝 Prabhjot Singh Lamba built a Chrome extension for journaling

🎪 Knight started a build in public challenge

📈 Elie Steinbock posted a monthly review for May

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

🎨 Relume — Build React websites with AI

🔎 Osum — Perform market research with AI

👤 ​Synthesia​ — Create videos with AI avatars

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How Can This Poker Strategy Help You Succeed In Business?

Many founders either overthink or ship without focus. This poker strategy may help you strategically build products.

It’s called “tight aggressive”:

• Before committing, calculate expected value: (odds x payoff) – costs.
• Avoid the twin traps of analysis paralysis and random shipping.
• Choose a project wisely, then pursue it intensely.

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How Can You Design Your Ideal Life in 7 Minutes?

The gap between the life you want and the one you’re building might be bigger than you think—but there’s a surprisingly simple exercise to close that distance.

Here’s how to use the “Ideal End State” exercise to transform your life:

• Create a detailed bullet list about your ideal life. From work to relationships to daily routines.
• Find the inconsistencies between what you say you want and your current actions.
• Identify and eliminate activities you’re doing that don’t serve your true goals.

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🤖 Rise of the AI Wrappers shared by Sam McKay
An essay on AI wrappers turning expertise into billion-dollar businesses

📈 Breakout Market of the Week

Time Tracking Software helps freelancers and teams track work hours and create client reports.

This market is growing fast: +49.6% in the last year – with a Breakout Score of 57. Around 18,100 people search for these tools each month.

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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧰 Alexandre Kantjas is hosting a workshop on building AI agents

↔️ Knight built a pivot idea generator

🥇 Shivam was featured as Product of the Day with Boringlaunch

👨‍💻 Sam McKay wrote about his experience with AI coding tools

👥 Elie Steinbock became a Cursor Ambassador

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

🎨 Relume — Build React websites with AI

🔎 Osum — Perform market research with AI

👤 ​Synthesia​ — Create videos with AI avatars

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Why Is Product/Market Fit The Wrong Goal For You?

Product/market fit is the holy grail of startups. But what if this concept is actually leading you down the wrong path?

Here’s a more practical approach to finding startup success:

• Target specific groups of people you can actually reach instead of abstract “markets”.
• Focus on channel/offer fit. Find one scalable acquisition channel and build an offer that converts.
• Realize that your product is more than features. It is also pricing, guarantees, bundling and positioning.

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How Do Small Environmental Changes Lead to Big Behavior Changes?

You might be struggling to build good habits due to a bad environment.

Change your environment and live a better life:

• Remove negative influences from your environment instead of trying to resist them.
• Fit good habits in your flow. If you want to exercise, find a gym literally on your way home from work.
• Design spaces that automate good decisions for you. From smaller plates for portion control to blocked websites for productivity.

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💝 1,000 true fans
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🎯 A SaaS positioning framework
🎮 How to use streaks in your app
📢 15 pre-launch growth hacking tactics
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🎯 SaaS Positioning Framework shared by Elie Steinbock
A podcast episode on effectively positioning a SaaS

🦾 Agno shared by Hitesh Kar
A lightweight library for building AI Agents

💝 1,000 True Fans shared by Barun Pandey
Why you should focus on deep fan relationships over mass appeal

📈 Breakout Market of the Week

Budgeting Apps help users track money and spending habits. They connect to bank accounts to show exactly where the cash is going and help users save more.

This market is growing fast: +123.1% in the last year – with a Breakout Score of 76. Around 135,000 people search for these tools each month.

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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

📱 Paul Martin built a Telegram app for Web3 marketing collabs

💸 Mike Williams crossed 25+ investments with Marketplace Capital

🗣️ Sam McKay is building a voice interface for interacting with AI experts

🤖 Eddie Forson gave a talk at the London Hugging Face Meetup

🎵 Darren Travel released Burnout Nation, Vol. 2

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

🎨 Relume — Build React websites with AI

🖼️ Aragon AI — Use AI to do a photo shoot

👤 ​Synthesia​ — Create videos with AI avatars

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Why Do App Streaks Feel So Compelling?

Ever wonder why streaks in apps like Duolingo or Wordle feel so powerful, even when regular habits fade?

This research shows you exactly why:

• Create clear goals for your streak mechanics – define exactly what users need to do and when they need to do it to keep their streak.
• Use psychological drivers like goal achievement, identity change and gamification to make your streaks compelling enough to change user behavior.
• Design streaks around daily activities instead of weekly or monthly ones. This simplifies decision-making and encourages regular engagement with your product.

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How to Build Hype Before Your Product Even Exists?

The seeds of your growth need planting months before launch to stand out in a crowded market:

• Build a pre-launch page that collects email addresses and asks visitors to refer friends in exchange for rewards or early access.
• Create a targeted outreach list by scoring potential partners and press outlets based on relevance, referrals and audience reach.
• Use your existing network by asking friends, family and colleagues to test your product and share early feedback that shapes your offering.

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🎨 An AI design agent
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🤔 Dangerous myths of “successful” people
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It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

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🎨 Lovart AI Design Agent shared by Devon Artis
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🛠️ Startup Ideas You Can Now Build With AI shared by Dru Riley
The kinds of startups that are suddenly viable thanks to AI models

📈 Breakout Market of the Week

Backlink Builders help businesses improve their online visibility by gaining links from trusted websites.

This market is growing fast: +80.6% in the last year – with a Breakout Score of 51. About 1,300 people search for these tools each month.

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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

📖 Eddie Forson built a Readwise MCP server

📊 Sam McKay launched a Power BI advisor app

📺 Hitesh Kar made a marketing video for Horsy.ai

🌱 Elie Steinbock got accepted into the Tinyseed accelerator

🚀 Simon launched Launchpad

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

📝 Fireflies.ai — Automate meeting notes

🖼️ Aragon AI — Use AI to do a photo shoot

👤 ​Synthesia​ — Create videos with AI avatars

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Why Is Charging $1 Infinitely Better Than Charging $0?

Getting someone to pay anything is infinitely better than getting them to pay nothing:

• Don’t ask customers what they’d pay – ask what they currently spend solving this problem or what they’ll save by solving it.
• Learn how your customers budget and buy – their purchasing process will influence your pricing strategy and business model.
• Start simple but aim high – most startups undercharge, so consider doubling your price to see what happens (you’ll likely be surprised).

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What are The Dangerous Myths of “Successful” People?

Success often looks messy behind the scenes – even high achievers struggle with doubts, procrastination and anxiety.

• Focus on one important task per day: block 2-3 solid hours for your most vital work instead of juggling many tasks poorly
• Judge tasks by impact, not volume: being busy usually means avoiding the few uncomfortable but crucial actions that really matter
• Remember everyone struggles: successful people aren’t superheroes, they just do big things despite their self-defeating habits and doubts

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💬 Testing the boundaries of LLMs
🛡️ A checklist for secure vibe coding
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⚡ The importance of strategic simplicity
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🚀 Social Growth Engineers shared by Hitesh Kar
A collection of social growth strategies and insights

🛡️ Security for Vibe Coders shared by Devon Artis
A checklist to secure your vibe coded apps

💬 SpeechMap.AI shared by Elia Zane
A project exploring how LLMs respond to controversial prompts

📈 Breakout Market of the Week

Testimonial Apps help businesses easily collect and showcase customer feedback to build trust and credibility. 

This market is growing fast: +52.6% in the last year – with a Breakout Score of 50. About 2,900 people search for these tools each month.

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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

⏱️ Joel Pickin launched The 12-Hour Billboard

💾 Ash vibe coded Flappy Floppy Disk

🥇 Elie Steinbock was featured as #1 Repository of the Day by Trendshift

💡 Eddie Forson is hosting an AI meetup in London

👨‍💻 Sam McKay is starting regular vibe coding livestreams

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🛠️ Tools of the Week

🎞️ ​Gling.ai​ — Let AI edit your videos

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📊 Julius AI — Analyze your data with computational AI

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Why is Building a Simpler Product a Competitive Advantage?

Simplicity in products isn’t just nice to have – it’s often the key to massive success.

Especially now, when life feels overwhelming:

• Narrow down to the core value: WhatsApp focused first on just delivering messages and calls reliably, Instagram only had photo sharing
• Make tough cuts, not easy ones: real prioritization means cutting good features that you want, keeping only what makes your product essential
• Build trust through consistency: when users know exactly what your product does, they don’t get lost or confused when you add new features later

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What Makes Users Abandon Your App In The First 60 Seconds?

Your product’s first moments determine whether users stay or join the 80% who abandon apps after one session:

• Define different user types and personalize the onboarding experience for each – power users, casual users and skeptical users all need different paths to success.
• Work backward from what success looks like for each user type and design the simplest path to get them to their first “win.”
• Create emotional engagement through micro-rewards, progress indicators and subtle animations that give users dopamine hits as they move through your onboarding flow.

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🎯 Sam Altman’s guide to success
📱 An Instagram content analyzer
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An essay by Sam Altman on how to achieve extraordinary success

📱 ViralSort shared by Elia Zane
A Chrome extension that sorts Instagram Reels by engagement

📈 Breakout Market of the Week

Book Summary Apps offer a quick way to gain knowledge from popular books with bite-sized insights, audio options and easy-to-digest content.

This market is growing fast: +175% in the last year – with a Breakout Score of 65. About 4,400 people search for these tools each month.

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💡 Sam McKay launched the beta version of KnowCode

🐦 Elie Steinbock reached 10,000 followers on X

🐴 Hitesh Kar reached €2,500 in revenue with Horsy.ai

💾 Joel Pickin built a site about The Evolution of Computing

📈 Maciej Cupial reached $21,000 MRR in April with Calendesk

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📊 Julius AI — Analyze your data with computational AI

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What is The #1 Reason Your Landing Page Does Not Convert?

Here’s how to double your SaaS landing page conversions:

• Think like a salesperson: Your hero section is the pitch, then visitors enter validation mode with questions. Answer these questions as they scroll.
• List every objection: Gather all customer questions about cost, setup time and features, then rank them by how often your ideal customers ask them.
• Handle in order: Start with the most common concerns and build sections that address each one clearly. Use separate pages for deeper dives.

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How to Tell Stories with Your SaaS to Gain New Users?

Stories are a powerful way to sell complex products – they help customers see themselves in your solution instead of getting lost in features.

• Make it personal not corporate: customers engage more with founder stories about why you built this and what you learned than with company marketing
• Connect with users through shared problems: tell how you helped others with the exact challenge your prospect is facing right now
• Guide next steps clearly: great stories sell the outcome and end with a clear call to action

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What Would Your Product Look Like With Only 3 Features?

The most beloved products often do fewer things exceptionally well:

• Start smaller than you think – take your minimum viable product and cut it in half, then cut it in half again to find your true core offering.
• Set a feature budget that limits how many features your product can have at once, forcing you to prioritize those most aligned with your core offering.
• Say no to feature requests even when it feels uncomfortable – compensate affected users when removing features to maintain excitement about your core product.

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What Makes Users Stick Around After Day One?

Great products deliver real value fast, not just show off features:

• Make value obvious before asking anything: let users experience what your product does before asking for a signup
• Watch where users drop off: analyze each step between signup and first value to find and fix the biggest loss points
• Personalize the journey: ask users upfront what they want to achieve, then personalize their path to get there faster

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What’s The Most Effective $0 Marketing Strategy?

Building your foundation for sustainable growth starts with your first 100 users:

• Practice $0 marketing by finding where your ideal customers already hang out and engaging them directly without spending on paid ads.
• Reach deep early on – even with just 10 customers, learning everything about them will teach you more than broad but shallow outreach.
• Build your product around your most successful early users and let go of customers who aren’t the right fit, even if it means fewer users at the start.

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How Can You Defend Your Product When It’s Easily Cloneable?

To build a lasting moat when AI can clone your app in days, focus on advantages that take time to develop:

• Focus on serving customers exceptionally well instead of obsessing over early moats – most successful startups built their moats after achieving product-market fit.
• Find which moat fits your business – whether it’s network effects, platform integrations, data advantages or another moat that builds over time.
• Track how competition changes as you grow – after proving the market exists, incumbents will be your main threat, not startups.

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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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