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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🛠️ Tools of the Week

🎠 aiCarousels — Create social media carousels fast

🎙️ Podsqueeze — Automate podcast content creation

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

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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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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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🤖 OpenRouter shared by Stewart Townsend
An LLM interface to easily access multiple models

🎞️ VEED.IO shared by Eddie Forson
An AI video editor suite with lots of features

📰 Techmeme shared by Jean Lucas Lima
An old school aggregator site for tech news

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧩 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:

1. The traditional path: paid ads, SEO, influencer marketing, cold emails.
2. 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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This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🎨 An AI website rater
✨ An animation builder
🦾 A list of AI agent repositories
🎮 17 SaaS gamification techniques
🎯 A simple change for better conversions
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🎨 ratemysite.app shared by Pavels Gurskis
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A collection of AI agent repositories

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

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🦔 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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🛠️ Tools of the Week

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🎙️ Podsqueeze — Automate podcast content creation

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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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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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🔍 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

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🎥 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

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

💲 Reply.io — Automate sales outreach

🎙️ Podsqueeze — Automate podcast content creation

🎨 Decktopus AI — Use AI to make presentations

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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:

1. Use a 2-step formula in the hook to meet the expectations set by the title and thumbnail.
2. Use 3 elements in the body of your videos: share context, add stakes (payoff) and build a curiosity gap.
3. 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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This week’s Founder Finds includes:

📙 A SaaS company playbook
👀 A short-form video strategy
🗣️ How to improve your speaking
⚖️ A SaaS comparison page checklist
📺 A tool to chat with YouTube videos
💼 Why are we working more than ever?
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Where most see problems, see opportunities.

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📺 picke.app shared by Pavels Gurskis
A tool to chat with YouTube videos

📙 SaaS Company Playbook shared by Stewart Townsend
A handbook from Posthog explaining how their business works

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

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

⚡ Ren Saguil is hosting 2 Lightning Lessons on Maven

📊 Maciej Cupial posted September monthly update for Calendesk

💯 Bernardt J. Vogel made a Hacker News top 100 latest stories feed

🛡️ M. Yousuf Faisal wrote about cybersecurity insights from Q2 2024

👥 Lukasz and Pong unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

📊 Brand24 — Monitor online mentions

🎙️ Podsqueeze — Automate podcast content creation

🎨 Decktopus AI — Use AI to make presentations

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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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This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🧪 An A/B test platform
🎨 An AI website builder
📱 25 app marketing strategies
👋 5 things to do before you quit
🤖 A deep dive into AI-powered marketing
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Action is the foundational key to all success.

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🤖 AI-Powered Marketing shared by Maciej Cupial
A video on using AI in outbound marketing, SEO and paid advertising

🎨 Relume shared by Anthony DeLuise
An AI website builder with sitemap and wireframe generation

🧪 VWO shared by Vishal Srivastava
A conversion rate optimization platform

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

📨 Anthony DeLuise launched Franklin

👨‍💻 Alessandro Franceschi started Abnormal DevOps Iterations

📚 Hj Barraza made an AI librarian for business books

🔒 Bernardt J. Vogel wrote about internet restrictions

🚀 Elia Zane reached 5th place on Product Hunt with Inbox Zero

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

📊 Brand24 — Monitor online mentions

🎙️ Podsqueeze — Automate podcast content creation

🔎 GummySearch — Discover new markets on Reddit

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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
• Preselect the paid plan to boost conversions
• 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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This week’s Founder Finds includes:

📈 A SaaS growth course
🤥 The Pinocchio Protocol
🧩 An app automation platform
💪 What makes a business durable
🗨️ An AI prompt management tool
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🗨️ PromptHub shared by Devon Artis
A prompt management tool to keep track of your AI prompts

📈 SaaS Growth Course shared by Stewart Townsend
A comprehensive course on scaling a B2B SaaS company

🧩 Integrately shared by Lwany
An automation platform to easily connect 1,200+ apps

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🎓 Devon Artis passed the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam

🎙️ Simon was featured on a podcast with MicroAssets

💲 Ren Saguil is starting a new cohort of the Elite Sales Athletes course (Use TrendsVCPals for $300 off)

📖 Darren Travel wrote a short novel

🎨 Anthony DeLuise launched his personal site

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How to Build a Durable Business?

7 powers offer benefits to you and act as a barrier for your competition.

Here are some of them:

• Scale Economies: Unit costs go down when the volume goes up
• Network Economies: The more people use the product, the more value each user gets
• Switching Costs: Customers will lose more than than the value they gain from switching to a competitor

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The Pinocchio Protocol: See What Others Miss

Pinocchio couldn’t lie because his nose got longer when he did.

This is a lesson for you.

People often ignore things they can’t see or changes that happen slowly.

To fight this, make important things visible and build signals for slow changes so you can address them sooner.

If you can measure important things that others miss, you’ll have a big advantage.

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The danger of inaction outweighs the risk of error.

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🤖 Lindy.ai shared by Stewart Townsend
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📩 Newsletter Growth Levers shared by Ren Saguil
A presentation on effective audience building for newsletters

📺 MagicPublish.ai shared by Lwany
A YouTube metadata generator

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🚀 Elie Steinbock launched Inbox Zero on Product Hunt

🎞️ Jeremy Toeman launched TikTok integration for Augie

🔬 Simon’s co-founder of MicroAssets was featured in Indie Hackers

🔒 M. Yousuf Faisal wrote an AI guide for cybersecurity experts

💼 Eddie Forson built a landing page for his consulting company

🤝 Thomas Sorheim Danielsen got his first client for Remarkable Name

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🛠️ Tools of the Week

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Business Model Canvas Explained

The Business Model Canvas is a 1-page tool to help you map out and plan your business:

1. Having all key parts of your business makes it easier to see areas of improvement.
2. It’s easy to share with your team or investors, since everyone’s on the same page.
3. You can update it as your business grows or the market changes.

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The Secret Behind The Biggest Online Communities

Here’s how successful creators make their communities thrive:

• Community Design: Focus on its purpose and building relationships among members.
• Shifting the Focus: Prioritize your members’ progress and transformation, instead of your own content production.
• Building Communities for Businesses: Communities create a valuable feedback loop and foster loyalty. This helps businesses build products their customers want and need.

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🎞️ A Text-to-Video AI
💡 A visual work platform
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🦥 The benefits of procrastination
🔧 Building a business without money
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Keep an inner scorecard.

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🎞️ VIVA AI shared by Stewart Townsend
A text-to-video and image-to-video AI tool

🎯 Landing Page Formula shared by Matt Spear
A landing page structure to increase conversions

💡 Mural shared by Matteo Martinuzzi
A visual collaboration tool for teams

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How to Build a Business Without Money?

Use this to find your niche and validate your idea:

• Use 3 Ps Framework: Your passion, profession and problems you personally have.
• Pick the “best bad idea”: Don’t wait for the perfect time. Pick an idea and start getting feedback from potential customers. This will help you refine your idea over time.
• Use the “Who” framework: There are 3 categories of ideal customers: People like you, people you’ve helped before and underserved markets. Target them.

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How to Procrastinate For Success

If you’re a habitual procrastinator, that’s fine. Because it’s important for running a small business successfully.

Here’s why:

• Procrastination can help you prioritize by naturally filtering out less important tasks.
• Taking breaks and having fun helps to avoid burnout, which is far more costly than any procrastination.
• Instead of trying to do everything, focus on the 1-2 most important things that will drive your business forward.

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Build in Public Definitive Guide

Here’s a guide to help you build a profitable business by staying close to people.

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• Learn how to validate ideas from direct feedback.
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When Did We Stop Understanding AI?

This video explains how deep neural networks work, using the example of AlexNet and ChatGPT:

• Early AI models were rule-based and easier to understand. In 2012, AlexNet marked a turning point where AI models became more powerful but also less understandable.
• The new models rely on complex internal processes and high-dimensional spaces.
• This makes it harder to understand and explain how they work.

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