πŸ€– Open Questions in AI 😴 How to Rest πŸ’» Notes-to-Website


This week’s Founder Finds includes:

😴 How to rest effectively
πŸ” An AI lead generation tool
πŸ€– What we don’t know about AI
πŸ“ Making websites from Apple Notes
⏳ Time management tips of busy people
➑️ And more…



πŸͺΆ Remember This

You either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.



πŸ† Trends Pro Member Wins

βœ… Bernardt J. Vogel launched an AI business validation app


πŸ“§ Elie Steinbock launched Simple Email Mode for Inbox Zero


πŸ’ͺ🏾 Maisha Cannon made a second list of black-owned businesses


πŸ“ Jakub Nowikowski posted a monthly update


☁️ Uwe Dreissigacker launched Cloudflare integration for BlogHandy


πŸ’― Mayank Nagpal submitted Next100 as an Awwwards nominee



πŸ€“ Fav Finds

Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members


πŸ“ Montaigne shared by Ash
A tool to convert Apple Notes into websites


πŸ” Jobin.cloud shared by Pavels Gurskis
An AI tool for lead generation and cold outreach


⏳ Time Management Tips of Insanely Busy People shared by Chris Beaumont
A blog post on optimizing your schedule



🐦 Tweet of the Week



πŸ› οΈ Tools of the Week

πŸ›‘οΈ CodeWP β€” Make WordPress plugins with AI


πŸ–ΌοΈ Aragon AI β€” Use AI to do a photo shoot


πŸŽ™οΈ Podsqueeze β€” Automate podcast content creation



❔ Ask Yourself

Things I Don’t Know About AI

In most markets, the more time passes the more clear things become.

In generative AI, it’s the opposite. The more time passes, the less you actually understand.

Here’s a list of open questions to help you think deeper about AI and its implications:

  • Will governments back regional AI giants?
  • Why are there so few consumer builders in the AI ecosystem?
  • Which companies in the AI cloud will pursue which business model?
  • When does the GPU bottleneck end and how does that impact new AI cloud providers?



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How to Rest

Between making time for work, family, friends, exercise, chores, shopping and more…

It can feel like a huge accomplishment to just take a few minutes to read a book or watch TV.

In this podcast episode, you’ll learn:

  • What rest is and how you can rest more effectively.
  • How your relationship with rest impacts the benefits you gain from it.
  • How to use your free time to rest in a culture that promotes rest as laziness.



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    AI Software Engineers: Coding Assistants, Growing to $5M ARR, Training AI Models

    β€œEverybody in the world is now a programmer.” β€” Jensen Huang

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    ❓ What You’ll Learn

    • How to reach your target audience with lower market risk?
    • Where to get data to train your AI model?
    • How to grow as your customers grow?
    • How to monetize open-source projects?
    • How to help users experience value faster?
    • How to build trust and get early fans?
    • How to write and edit code in natural language?
    • How to protect know-how?
    • How to grow on Google by targeting high-intent keywords?
    • Who grew an AI coding assistant to $5,000,000 ARR?
    • What side projects to build to generate leads?
    • What do software engineers think about AI software engineers?
    • How to future-proof your career as a software engineer.


    πŸ” Problem

    Software engineers are hard to find, recruit and compensate.

    Once you hire them, you risk knowledge being lost when they leave.


    πŸ’‘ Solution

    AI software engineers can increasingly solve specific issues on their own.

    While engineers focus on domain rules and high-level problems.


    πŸ—ΊοΈ Roadmap

    1️⃣ Pick Your Niche

    AI Coding Assistants

    • CodePal β€’ Dozens of AI code generation tools
    • CodeWP β€’ AI chat and coding tools for WordPress creators
    • GitHub Copilot β€’ The world’s most widely adopted AI developer tool
    • Bito β€’ Accessible, accurate AI tools trusted by developers across the world
    • Amazon CodeWhisperer β€’ Your AI-powered productivity tool for the IDE and command line
    • Tabnine β€’ Private and personalized AI coding assistant
    • Codeium β€’ The most intelligent AI code generation tool
    • Sourcegraph Cody β€’ Search, write and understand code fast
    • CodeGPT β€’ AI code chat, auto-completion, explanation, error-checking and more
    • AutoCode Pro β€’ Build Chrome extensions, web and mobile apps from text
    • AlphaCode β€’ Competitive programming tool with critical thinking, logic, algorithms and more

    2️⃣ Build Your App

    • Build a plugin for popular code editors such as VS Code and JetBrains IDEs. You can reach your target audience with lower market risks.
    • Build an AI agent that completes coding tasks on autopilot.
      • Devin can do Upwork gigs on autopilot.
      • CodeGPT can handle coding tasks on your behalf.
      • ReactAgent builds React components from user stories.
      • Fine has AI agents that understand, analyze, generate and test code.
    • Train your own model to differentiate from competitors.
      • Tabnine is trained on open-source repositories.
      • Refact combines its custom and third-party AI models.
      • GitHub Copilot is trained on all languages from public repositories.
      • CodeWP offers AI chat and coding tools trained for WordPress creators.

    3️⃣ Pick Your Monetization Strategy

    • Charge per user to grow as your customers grow.
      • Codacy costs up to $18 per user/mo.
      • Tabnine costs up to $39 per user/mo.
      • AskCodi costs up to $29.99 per user/mo.
    • Offer subscriptions to get predictable revenue.
      • Sweep costs $480 per month.
      • Replit AI costs $20 per month.
      • Fine costs up to $99 per month.
    • Build a monetized open-source tool. Let customers self-host or pay for a managed solution.
      • Sweep has open-source and pro versions.
      • Refact has open-source and cloud versions.
      • CodeGeeX has open-source and paid enterprise versions.

    4️⃣ Find Your First Customers

    • Build a playground to help users experience value faster.
      • Tabby has a playground with a sample coding task.
      • Blackbox AI has a playground with pre-built coding prompts.
      • Codeium has a playground with Python, JavaScript, Go, C++ and Java.
    • Share sample problems that your tool can solve. This helps customers understand your value better.
      • Sweep shares sample coding issues it can solve.
      • CodeWP shares AI code snippets and plugin examples.
      • Bito shares AI prompts for generating new code or fixing existing code.
    • Build in public to get trust and early fans. Share challenges, milestones and product updates.

    5️⃣ Improve User Experience

    • Let users chat with the code. Make it easy to write and edit code with natural language.
      • Tabnine has an AI chat that can generate and document code.
      • Cursor lets you edit an entire method or class with a single prompt.
      • Replit Ghostwriter lets you generate and summarize your code via a chat.
      • GitHub Copilot lets you chat with your code to build new features and fix bugs.
    • Offer personalized services to show commitment to your customer’s success.
      • Fine can build custom tools and integrations for your use cases.
      • Replit AI offers personalized onboarding to enterprise customers.
      • Codeium offers personalized onboarding and training for your organization.
      • Aide offers personalized onboarding and weekly office hours with the engineering team.
    • Have a strong privacy policy to address concerns about code and know-how privacy.
      • Tabnine has a dedicated privacy page.
      • GitHub Copilot has a trust center with privacy and security policies.
      • Codacy shares security policies on infrastructure, data encryption and more.

    6️⃣ Boost Brand Awareness

    • Use programmatic SEO to target high-intent keywords.
      • AskCodi targets dozens of programming languages.
      • ZZZ Code AI targets dozens of code generator and explainer tool keywords.
      • CodePal has dozens of pages for the query β€œCode Generator for [Programming Language]”.
    • Become a guest on interviews to boost your visibility.
    • Launch on ProductHunt to get more traffic.
      • Bito got β€œ3rd product of the day” with 460 upvotes.
      • Fine got β€œ2nd product of the day” with 737 upvotes.
      • Sourcery got β€œ4th product of the day and week” with 1,036 upvotes.

    7️⃣ Scale Your Business

    • Use freemium to lower customer acquisition costs.
      • Codeium is free for individual users.
      • AskCodi has a free plan with access to its base model.
      • Replit AI has a free plan with limited access to AI features.
    • Make your tool free for individual developers. Happy users will spread the word about you at work. This can lead to the adoption of your tool at the company level.
      • Fine is free for individuals and small companies.
      • Amazon CodeWhisperer is free for individual use.
      • Codeium offers unlimited AI usage for individual developers.
    • Use side project marketing to generate leads. Target search intents for solving development tasks.
      • AI2sql has a free SQL formatter.
      • Codepal has dozens of tools for generating, analyzing and improving code.
      • aiXcoder has a code search engine that lets you search API use cases, GitHub repos, similar code and more.


    πŸ”— Links

    1. The world’s first AI software engineer β€’ The thread behind this report.
    2. Building a Report on AI Software Engineers β€’ The tweet behind this report.
    3. Can AI Replace Software Engineers? β€’ Software engineers discuss Devin and how to future-proof your career.
    4. How AI Code Generation Works β€’ The benefits of AI code generation for developers.


    πŸ™ Thanks

    Thanks to Chris Beaumont and Stewart Townsend. We had a great time jamming on this report.

    ✏️ Emin researched and wrote this report. Dru researched and edited this report.


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      πŸŽ™οΈ Podcast Scanner 🎯 Marketing Toolkit πŸ“± Subscription Report


      This week’s Founder Finds includes:

      πŸŽ™οΈ A podcast monitoring tool
      πŸͺœ How to build a value ladder
      πŸ“± A report on subscription apps
      🎲 How to avoid gambler’s fallacy
      🎯 A collection of marketing resources
      ➑️ And more…



      πŸͺΆ Remember This

      Always stay a student.



      πŸ† Trends Pro Member Wins

      πŸ¦„ Bernardt J. Vogel wrote a Venture Hacking Blueprint

      ‍
      πŸ’¨ Yuyu wrote about SaaS boilerplates


      🎡 Darren Travel released a music album


      ⭐ Maciej Cupial was featured on Indie Hackers


      ✍️ Avy Leghziel posted a new issue of Masters of Babel


      🎀 Maisha Cannon hosted Black History Month Mixer



      πŸ€“ Fav Finds

      Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members


      πŸŽ™οΈ Podscan.fm shared by Elie Steinbock
      A tool for setting up alerts for podcast mentions


      🎯 Awesome Marketing shared by Prabhjot Singh Lamba
      A collection of marketing resources


      πŸ“± State of Mobile App Subscriptions shared by Pavels Gurskis
      A report on the state of subscription apps



      🐦 Tweet of the Week



      πŸ› οΈ Tools of the Week

      πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» CodePal β€” Generate code with AI


      πŸ“ Fireflies.ai β€” Automate meeting notes


      🎞️ Zubtitle β€” Edit videos for social media



      πŸ“˜ Read This

      Gambler’s Fallacy

      People think a random event is more or less likely to occur if it happened several times in the past.

      This is the gambler’s fallacy.

      Here’s 3 examples:

      • A job seeker thinks they won’t find a job following a streak of job rejections.
      • Fans think that the basketball player will miss the next shot after missing 5 shots in a row.
      • Investors tend to hold onto stocks that fall and sell stocks that rise. Thinking that the stocks have been falling or rising long enough that the change in trends should occur soon.

      It affects our decisions by adding an element of false certainty to events influenced by lots of factors, including randomness.



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      πŸ”§ Try This

      How To Build a Value Ladder

      The value ladder is a set of offerings that you provide to your customers.

      Where value increases as the price increases.

      Whether you’re selling physical products, digital products, software, services or coaching.

      A value ladder will help you get repeat clients, attract new leads and boost the value of every sale.



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        πŸ–ŠοΈ AI Voice-to-Text ⏩ How to Delegate πŸ‹οΈ 7 Minute Workout


        This week’s Founder Finds includes:

        πŸ‹οΈ 7-minute workouts
        πŸ–ŠοΈ An AI voice-to-text tool
        ⏩ How to delegate effectively
        πŸš€ A collection of SaaS growth advice
        βš™οΈ How to achieve digital self-reliance
        ➑️ And more…



        πŸͺΆ Remember This

        A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.



        πŸ† Trends Pro Member Wins

        πŸ‘“ Bernardt J. Vogel wrote about AR and VR use cases


        ✊🏾 Maisha Cannon made a list of black-owned businesses


        πŸŽ™οΈ Maciej Cupial was interviewed on Indie Hackers


        🧞 Avy Leghziel launched The Manager’s Genie


        ⭐ Uwe Dreissigacker reached 25 reviews on GrowthMentor


        🧸 Yuyu published a guest post on the Itemlist blog


        🧠 Denis S unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching a 30-day standup streak



        πŸ€“ Fav Finds

        Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members


        βš™οΈ Tech Independence shared by Dale Williams
        A guide to avoid relying on any company or software


        πŸ‹οΈ 7 Minute Workout shared by Chris Beaumont
        A workout app with short and effective workouts


        πŸ–ŠοΈ AudioPen shared by Don Ho
        An AI tool that converts voice notes into text



        🐦 Tweet of the Week



        πŸ› οΈ Tools of the Week

        🧰 Apify β€” Build web scrapers fast


        πŸ–ΌοΈ Aragon AI β€” Use AI to do a photo shoot


        πŸ‘€ ​Synthesia​ β€” Create videos with AI avatars and voiceovers



        πŸ“˜ Read This

        How To Delegate Effectively

        Delegating work gives you time to focus on more important tasks and gives your team a chance to work on interesting projects.

        Here are some tips to help you become a better delegator:

        • Identify team members’ strengths: delegate to the person that has skills in that area.
        • Identify what you can delegate: some work needs your personal attention while other can be done by an equally skilled team member.
        • Provide context and guidance: share guidance, docs and context to set the person up for success.



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        πŸ”§ Try This

        The Best Growth Advice

        Here’s SaaS growth advice based on learnings from Miro, Figma, Zapier and other successful companies.

        • Don’t forget about email: This powerful and cheap tool is often overlooked.
        • Measure product stickiness: See how many people use your product consistently.
        • Activations > sign-ups: Optimize for helping users experience the core value of your product as fast as possible.



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          AI Video Editing Tools: Chat With Videos, One-Take Editing, Asset Libraries

          β€œIf a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is a library.” – Srinivas Narayanan

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          ❓ What You’ll Learn

          • How to chat with videos to trim footage and get editing tips?
          • How to live-edit parts of the video?
          • How to make great videos in one take?
          • How to lower the barrier to entry?
          • Why should you build AI plugins for popular video editors?
          • How to get early feedback?
          • How to help users streamline video creation?
          • How to help users overcome creative blocks?
          • How to boost customer success?
          • How to help prospective customers pick you over competitors?
          • How to build trust with your target audience?
          • How to monetize traffic?
          • How to get leads with free tools?


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          To make great videos, you need a high level of skill, creativity and technical expertise.


          πŸ’‘ Solution

          AI video editing tools help you focus on your artistic vision and storytelling.

          Instead of cutting, trimming, adding captions and taking care of other technical details.


          🏁 Players

          AI Video Editing Tools

          • Opus Clip β€’ Turn long videos into short clips
          • Descript β€’ The simple, powerful and fun way to edit
          • Typeframes β€’ Turn text into product videos
          • Gling AI β€’ Cut silences and bad takes
          • invideo AI β€’ Create videos with text prompts
          • FireCut β€’ Lightning-fast AI video editor in Adobe Premiere Pro
          • Zubtitle β€’ Add subtitles, trim and repurpose videos with a few clicks


          πŸ—ΊοΈ Roadmap

          1️⃣ Build Your App

          • Add a chat interface to trim footage, enhance visuals, apply effects and more.
            • invideo AI tweaks the video with text commands.
            • Viddyoze can make and edit videos from a simple chat.
            • Filmora has an AI Copilot that offers editing tips for your video.
          • Let customers live-edit parts of the video.
            • Pika lets you change colors and objects in the scene.
            • Sora can change colors, objects and environments from text.
          • Help users make great videos in one take. Let AI enhance the visuals and sound to make it look professional.
            • Descript lets you overdub mistakes and awkward phrases by rewriting the script.
            • Vimeo lets you make videos in one take. You can generate, record and edit the script to get the best result.
            • OneTake uses AI to edit, enhance and translate videos. Check out the original and AI-enhanced videos on its landing page.

          2️⃣ Pick Your Monetization Strategy

          • Charge per user.
          • Offer pay-per-use plans to lower the entry barrier by minimizing costs.
          • Use subscriptions to get predictable cash flow.

          3️⃣ Find Your First Customers

          • Build on top of ecosystems to lower market risk. Help users become more productive with the tools they use.
            • FireCut is an AI video editor plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro.
            • AutoPod offers automatic editing for video podcasts and shows in Adobe Premiere Pro.
            • AI AI, CAPTAIN is an AI editing plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve Studio.
          • Offer beta access to get early feedback.

          4️⃣ Improve User Experience

          • Offer stock assets to help users streamline video creation.
            • CapCut offers royalty-free music, graphics and effects.
            • RawShorts offers up to 50 libraries with graphic assets.
            • NOVA A.I. partnered with iStock to offer stock images, audio and videos.
          • Share video templates to help users overcome creative blocks.
            • invideo AI has 5,000+ video templates for inspiration.
            • Kapwing has hundreds of templates to boost your creativity.
            • DeepBrain AI Studios has 500+ templates to make sales, news and education videos.

          5️⃣ Boost Brand Awareness

          • Offer tutorials to educate users and boost customer success.
            • FlexClip shares AI video creation and editing tips.
            • OpusClip has tutorials on how to make, edit and export videos.
            • Filmora has a full guide of its basic and advanced editing features. You can get free AI credits and 30-day plugin access by learning Filmora.
          • Build comparison pages to help people pick you over competitors.
            • Klap compares itself to Qlip, Vydio, Munch and more.
            • Submagic compares itself to Opus Clip, Zubtitle and more.
            • Peech AI compares itself to Veed, Descript, Opus Clip and more.
          • Use content marketing to build trust with your target audience.
            • Ssemble shares video marketing and editing posts.
            • Descript posts on its blog, X (Twitter) and Facebook.
            • Pictory shares educational posts on its blog, YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn.

          6️⃣ Scale Your Business


          πŸ™ Thanks

          Thanks to Chris Beaumont and Stewart Townsend. We had a great time jamming on this report.

          ✏️ Emin researched and wrote this report. Dru researched and edited this report.


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            πŸ§˜β€β™‚οΈ 5 Levels of Freedom πŸ’¨ Best SaaS Boilerplates πŸ’‘ 21 Business Ideas


            This week’s Founder Finds includes:

            πŸ“ A to-do list app
            πŸ’¨ A list of SaaS boilerplates
            πŸ’‘ 21 ideas to start a company
            πŸ” A resource database for VCs
            πŸ§˜β€β™‚οΈ The 5 levels of not giving a f*ck
            ➑️ And more…



            πŸͺΆ Remember This

            A test of leadership is recognizing a problem before it becomes an emergency.



            πŸ† Trends Pro Member Wins

            πŸ“š Dru Riley released Trends.vc’s recommended book list for founders


            🌐 Prabhjot Singh Lamba wrote a summary of the SEO Course by Ahrefs


            πŸ’Ό Maisha Cannon hosted a cohort-based course


            πŸ•·οΈ Uwe Dreissigacker launched Google Indexer in BlogHandy


            πŸ“Š Pavels Gurskis got his first income from consulting


            πŸ“’ Ren Saguil became a LinkedIn Top Sales Coaching Voice


            πŸ“ˆ AJ reached 30,000+ monthly visitors with Indie Hustle



            πŸ€“ Fav Finds

            Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members


            πŸ’¨ Awesome SaaS Boilerplates shared by Prabhjot Singh Lamba
            A list of SaaS starter kits for various tech stacks


            πŸ” VC Tech Stack shared by Bernardt J. Vogel
            A Notion database of tools and resources for VCs


            πŸ“ Superlist shared by Pascal Samsoon
            A to-do list app with shareable lists



            🐦 Tweet of the Week



            πŸ› οΈ Tools of the Week

            πŸ€– Typing Mind β€” Use ChatGPT with a better UI


            ⏱️ Rize β€” Maximize your productivity with AI


            πŸ–ΌοΈ Aragon AI β€” Use AI to do a photo shoot



            πŸ“˜ Read This

            This Is the Best Time To Start a Company In 30 Years

            A summary of some of the best opportunities for you:

            • One-time payments or pay-per-task SaaS is becoming normal.
            • Boomers are retiring – one of the most underserved audiences.
            • Most creators can only monetize from brand deals – help them productize themselves.



            πŸ‘€ Watch This

            Notion AI

            Ivan Zhao, CEO of Notion, shares how AI is enhancing Notion’s functionality, including information access and organization.

            Notion solves fragmentation in the SaaS market with a unified workspace that bundles notes, tasks and databases.

            They introduced Notion AI which helps you overcome creative blocks, auto-fill tables and chat with your docs.



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            πŸ”§ Try This

            5 Levels of Not Giving a F*ck

            Every day, people suffer from worrying too much. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

            This article shares the 5 levels of non-f*ck-giving, which goes deeper with each level.

            Learn how to face your fears, stop worrying about what others think and start living.



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              πŸŽ™οΈ AI Podcast Editor ⌨️ Monetized Open Source πŸ›ŽοΈ Clients on Demand


              This week’s Founder Finds includes:

              πŸ”— A dead link checker
              πŸŽ™οΈ An AI-powered podcast editor
              πŸ›ŽοΈ How to get clients for your agency
              🍽️ A tool to gather content for AI training
              ⌨️ How to monetize open source software
              🐦 AI-powered social media scheduling tool
              ➑️ And more…



              πŸͺΆ Remember This

              The book costs as much as what you’ll lose if you don’t read it.



              πŸ† Trends Pro Member Wins

              πŸ““ Kevin Galang shipped Core Delegation Playbooks


              πŸ“œ Prabhjot Singh Lamba built a Reddit Post Downloader


              ☣️ Avy Leghziel wrote about toxic positivity


              ✍️ Peter Elkins was featured in TheFutureEconomy.ca


              πŸ’Έ Simon had the first sale on SaaS Themes


              πŸ›  Ash wrote a summary of a no-code workshop


              πŸ“’ Meiko S. Patton became a LinkedIn Top Voice



              πŸ€“ Fav Finds

              Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members


              🍽️ Gobble Bot shared by Ash
              A tool to save websites, PDFs and videos as text for AI training


              πŸŽ™οΈ Resound.fm shared by Elia Zane
              An AI-powered podcast editor


              πŸ”— Bernard shared by Prabhjot Singh Lamba
              A tool to detect broken links on your site



              🐦 Tweet of the Week



              πŸ› οΈ Tool of the Week

              Typefully

              Typefully helps you write and schedule posts for social media like Twitter and LinkedIn easily.

              It uses AI to give you ideas and improve your writing, helping you grow your audience faster.

              You can also work with your team on it, get smart analytics and post your content across multiple platforms with just a few clicks.



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              Awesome OSS Monetization

              Here’s a curated list of monetization strategies for open-source software.

              The strategies are broken down into categories based on what the users pay for.

              From access and licenses, to content and services.

              You’ll find a business model that fits your open-source project.



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              How To Get Clients For Your Agency

              Are you struggling to find clients for your agency?

              Here are 7 tactics to help you build a client acquisition system that will generate new clients on demand.

              • Scarcity: Build offers that expire in a week.
              • Cold outreach: Engage with your ideal clients to boost your visibility.
              • Build partnerships: Offer complementary services to clients that your partners serve.



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                AI-Generated Headshots: The Moat In AI, AI Avatars, Building In Public

                β€œPhotography has nothing to do with cameras.” – Lucas Gentry

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                ❓ What You’ll Learn

                • How to build source photo guidelines?
                • Who’s building AI headshots generators in public?
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                • How to build a strong moat?
                • How to get positive word of mouth?
                • Who generated 12,000,000 headshots for 60,000 customers?
                • How to convert visitors to paid users?
                • How to drive more traffic to your AI headshots generator?
                • How to serve customers with bulk requests?
                • How to generate animated AI headshots?
                • How will AI headshots change the modeling industry?
                • Why are people bad at picking their own photos?
                • How can indie hackers build AI startups?


                πŸ” Problem

                To get professional headshots, you need great lighting, a wardrobe and a skilled photographer.


                πŸ’‘ Solution

                AI headshot generators give you studio-quality photos without a physical photo shoot.


                🏁 Players

                AI Headshot Generators


                πŸ—ΊοΈ Roadmap

                1️⃣ Build your app

                2️⃣ Pick your monetization strategy

                3️⃣ Find your first customers

                4️⃣ Build trust

                • Showcase social proof by sharing reviews from happy customers.
                  • Secta AI shares a wall of testimonials from happy customers.
                  • ProPhotos shares reviews from doctors, lawyers, real estate agents and more.
                  • HeadshotPro says it has served 60,000 customers and generated 12,000,000 headshots.
                • Build trust by sharing sample images. This helps to convert visitors to paid users.

                5️⃣ Capture leads

                6️⃣ Boost brand awareness

                • Use Programmatic SEO to rank higher in Google. Target long-tail keywords to reach a higher-intent audience.
                  • Pet Booth has pages with popular dog and cat breeds.
                  • Aragon AI has headshot pages based on your profession. Such as students, lawyers, sales and more.
                  • 1PhotoAI has pages with different style keywords. Such as headshots for passports, weddings, Halloween and more.
                  • HeadshotPro has on-site keywords for different clothing options. Plus pages with headshot types and locations. They show their app among headshot studios in a specific city.
                • Use affiliate marketing to scale your marketing efforts.
                  • AI Pet Photos pays 10-20% commissions for each paid customer you refer.
                  • Aragon AI pays a 20% commission to affiliates. They’ve paid $100,000 in commissions.
                  • HeadshotPro pays 30% commissions on all sales. It also offered a $1,000 bonus to 3 people reaching 100,000 views on TikTok.


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                • (πŸ“ˆ Pro) How to boost the adoption of your AI headshot generator?
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                • (πŸ“ˆ Pro) How to get contact details of prospective customers?
                • (πŸ“ˆ Pro) Which newsletters to sponsor for high ROI?
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                  πŸ“· AI Photo Editor ❓ 12 Wealth Questions πŸ“± Low-Code App Builder


                  This week’s Founder Finds includes:

                  πŸ“‹ An SEO checklist
                  πŸ“· An AI image editor
                  ✍️ An AI content generator
                  πŸ“± A visual mobile app builder
                  ❓ 12 questions on building wealth
                  πŸ’° How to launch a business in a weekend
                  ➑️ And more…



                  πŸͺΆ Remember This

                  In business, you are paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.



                  πŸ† Trends Pro Member Wins

                  🧸 Yuyu launched Cottage for Tots


                  🎯 Ren Saguil shared some productivity tips


                  πŸŽͺ Marc Kreuzer started building in public


                  πŸ—‚οΈ Simon made a landing page showcasing his projects


                  ✍️ Chris Beaumont had a record week for his content writing business


                  βš™οΈ Hj Barraza implemented EOS in his business


                  πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Krish wrote about the Redaction repo



                  πŸ€“ Fav Finds

                  Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members


                  πŸ“± Draftbit shared by Wit S
                  A visual editor to build mobile apps


                  ✍️ Written Labs shared by Yuyu
                  An AI content generator for SEO


                  πŸ’° Million Dollar Weekend shared by Chris Beaumont
                  A book on launching a business in two days



                  πŸ› οΈ Tool of the Week

                  Pixlr

                  Pixlr is a free online suite for editing photos and graphic design.

                  It has AI-powered tools for generating images from text, removing backgrounds, cutting objects, face swapping and more.

                  It’s used by beginners and experienced graphic designers to simplify creative tasks.



                  🐦 Tweet of the Week



                  πŸ“˜ Read This

                  12 Questions About Building Wealth and Skills

                  From building a business, to learning new skills.

                  Here are the answers to your questions:

                  • What’s the best way to win on the internet?
                  • How to make people want to buy your product?
                  • How to make $1,000,000 on a $25,000 budget?



                  πŸ”§ Try This

                  The Complete SEO Checklist

                  Brian Dean shares the best strategies for e-commerce, local businesses and affiliate websites.

                  From technical and on-page SEO to keyword research.

                  This the most complete SEO checklist on the internet.



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                  Building a $1B AI Avatar Business

                  Victor Riparbelli, co-founder of Synthesia, shares how his company will change the way we make videos by making it as easy as writing text.

                  He talks about ethical AI use, data privacy and responsible content creation.



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                    πŸ’¬ 1:1 Founder Intros β€’ Make new friends, share lessons and find ways to help each other. Keep life interesting by meeting new founders each week.

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                    πŸ’² AI Sales Bot 🌟 Product Pitch Formula 🌱 How to Grow on X


                    This week’s Founder Finds includes:

                    πŸ’² An AI sales bot
                    🌐 A web scraping tool
                    🏷️ Startup business models
                    🌱 How to grow an account on X
                    🌟 How to craft a great product pitch
                    πŸ’‘ Productivity tips from Sam Altman
                    πŸŽ™οΈ A tool to edit spoken words in a recording
                    ➑️ And more…



                    πŸͺΆ Remember This

                    Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.



                    πŸ† Trends Pro Member Wins

                    πŸ’° Yuyu wrote about building and selling opengraph.xyz for $20,000


                    πŸš€ Simon launched early bird access to MicroAssets


                    πŸŽ™οΈ Maisha Cannon was featured in the And So, She Left podcast


                    πŸ“ˆ Bernardt J. Vogel wrote about venture capital in 2024


                    πŸ”„ Kevin Galang changed the monetization model for A Team Overseas


                    βš–οΈ ​Elie Steinbock​ wrote about ​the importance of product​


                    🧠 Chris Beaumont, Sinan Guler and Georgios Diamantopoulos unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching 30-day standup streaks



                    πŸ€“ Fav Finds

                    Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members


                    🌱 How to Grow on X shared by Elie Steinbock
                    A thread with a lot of nuggets in the replies


                    πŸ’² AI Sales Bot shared by Gianni D’Alerta
                    An AI tool that performs long sales and customer service callsΒ 


                    🏷️ Startup Business Models shared by Royce Johnson
                    A video on business models and product pricing for startups



                    πŸ› οΈ Tool of the Week

                    Apify

                    Apify is a platform for building, deploying and sharing web scraping and automation tools.

                    You can build web scrapers with Apify’s library, turn your projects into serverless apps and run them on Apify’s cloud.

                    It can scrape the web without getting blocked, store data and integrate it into the tools you already use.

                    You can also publish your own tools on the Apify Store to earn money.



                    🐦 Tweet of the Week



                    πŸ‘€ Watch This

                    Ultra-Realistic Voice Cloning

                    Overdub by Descript lets you fix mistakes and awkward phrases by editing the script.

                    Just fix the mistake in the text and Descript will automatically correct your voice recording.

                    No need to re-record. Descript makes fixing speech errors fast and easy.



                    πŸ“˜ Read This

                    Productivity Tips From Sam Altman

                    Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI.

                    Here are some of his productivity tips:

                    • Maintain a balance between β€œtrying hard” and personal well-being.
                    • The direction of work is crucial – working fast in the wrong direction is inefficient.
                    • Productivity soars when working on projects of interest – avoid or delegate the rest.



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                    πŸ”§ Try This

                    How to Craft a Great Product Pitch that Sells

                    Here are the 5 steps to craft a great product pitch that will help you:

                    • Get execs to fund your product.
                    • Get customers to buy your offer.
                    • Get investors to back your startup.



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                    The Most Popular Link From Last Week:
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