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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Don’t believe in luck. Believe in hard work.

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🗨️ PromptHub shared by Devon Artis
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📈 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

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📖 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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🏆 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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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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🦥 The benefits of procrastination
🔧 Building a business without money
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Keep an inner scorecard.

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A visual collaboration tool for teams

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

👥 Paul Metcalfe unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups

🤖 Matt Spear launched Ask WWDC

🔗 Uwe Dreissigacker started a backlink building agency

👨‍💻 Eddie Forson wrote about his experience at the AI Engineer’s World’s Fair 2024

🧠 Anthony DeLuise and Wojtek Wozniak unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching 30-day standup streaks

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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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This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🧪 An A/B test database
👨‍💻 An AI software engineer
🥾 A database of hiking trails
🎪 A guide to building in public
🤖 A video on understanding AI
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Your network is your net worth, nurture it.

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👨‍💻 Lovable.dev shared by Stewart Townsend
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🥾 AllTrails shared by Marc Gebeily
Curated trails and maps for hiking and camping

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🐴 Flippy built Horsy.AI

💌 Wadnes launched the Connecting the Dots newsletter

🌐 Uwe Dreissigacker built an Ahrefs bulk Domain Rating (DR) checker API

👨‍💻 Elie Steinbock made a video about Cursor and 20 other developer tools

📚 Hj Barraza has been publishing book summaries in English and Spanish

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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.

You will:

• Learn how to validate ideas from direct feedback.
• Get practical tips on how to use storytelling to build in public.
• Discover a framework for building products in public using community, authenticity and personal connections.

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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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📈 15 growth tactics
📽️ An AI presentation tool
💬 X (Twitter) DM strategies
📁 A directory of Substack newsletters
🎙️ An interview with the CEO of NVIDIA
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Profit is the applause for creating value.

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📁 Substack Directory shared by Stewart Townsend
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🎙️ NVIDIA CEO Interview shared by Soma
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📽️ Pitch shared by Ryan Ridgway
A presentation tool to create beautiful slides fast

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🚀 Wojtek Wozniak earned over $5,000 on pre-orders for gfluo

🦾 Eddie Forson wrote about AI agents and software 2.0

♾️ Uwe Dreissigacker launched a side project around Infinite Craft

🎂 M. Yousuf Faisal celebrated the 2nd anniversary of Securing Things

📊 AJ reached over 5,000 site visits for JustFree.io

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Steal These 15 Brilliant Growth Tactics

Here are growth tactics from Canva, Figma, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Miro, Otter and more:

1. Start user onboarding on your website: share your product’s value, visuals of features and ask users to sign up with their email.
2. Offer a great first-time user experience: Avoid a blank slate by offering pre-populated templates, make sure the next steps are clear and intuitive.
3. Use a cancellation flow to your advantage: Remind users of their current benefits, highlight the features they’ve used and make it easy for them to choose to stay.

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How to Get $10,000 Clients with X (Twitter) DMs

Here are X (Twitter) DM strategies to help you close more leads:

• Write concise, value-driven DMs. Avoid lengthy, generic messages.
• Use the CLOSER method during calls to guide prospects towards a sale.
• Be direct with hot leads, engage in conversation with warm/cold leads and never share prices upfront.

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This week’s Founder Finds includes:

📝 An AI note-taking app
💰 The cost of getting rich
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🚿 10 benefits of cold showers
💡 Productivity tips from Google
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Fear is the mind-killer, action is the antidote.

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An AI note-taking app

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

👗 Lwany is relaunching Petite Fashion TV

🇪🇸 Maciej Cupial is organizing a SaaS founder meetup in Madrid

📺 Elie Steinbock reached 3,500 YouTube subscribers

📈 Ryan Ridgway surpassed $40M in aggregate term sheet value in one month with Cirrus

👥 Wojtek Wozniak unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups

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Getting Rich Is Not Fun

Effort often goes unnoticed until you become an “overnight” success.

The more you zoom in on the growth chart, the more jagged it becomes.

Growth and comfort don’t go hand in hand. One is the price for the other.

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10 Surprising Benefits of Cold Showers

The idea of cold showers is chilling, but they have surprising benefits for your health:

• Lower muscle inflammation and soreness.
• Improved blood flow and lower risk of heart disease.
• Better mood and energy due to higher levels of endorphins.

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This week’s Founder Finds includes:

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💪 How to make hard things fun?
📁 A directory of personal websites
🧠 15 mental models of psychology
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Simplicity scales.

Complexity fails.

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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

💰 Katt Risen sold No-Code Exits

📁 Sarim Khalid built a directory of personal websites

🤏 Simon launched Tiny Flips with 20+ projects listed already

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🎞️ Eddie Forson built an AI agent to make short clips from YouTube videos

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2-Minute Rule

If a task takes less than 2 minutes to do, do it now.

This rule:

• Makes time for more complex and focused work.
• Cuts the mental energy drain of deciding to do them later.
• This rule helps you build a habit of taking action rather than putting things off.

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How to Make Hard Things Fun

Here’s how to do things that have long-term benefits, which you don’t want to do now:

• In column one, write down the pleasures you enjoy and the temptations that you want to do.
• In column two, write down the tasks and behaviors you should be doing, but often procrastinate on.
• See if you can link one of your instantly gratifying “want” behaviors with something you “should” be doing.

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🤝 The health benefits of social connections
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A year from now you will wish you had started today.

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👨‍💻 Rivet shared by Aaron Nesser
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📱 Day Trading Attention shared by Michael Pearson-Adams
A book on brand development using current social media trends

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧐 Joel Pickin launched the waitlist for Opportunity Spotter

📦 Simon launched BrandBoxd

🔎 Prabhjot Singh Lamba launched Similar Ideas feature for Does It Exist

👥 Vesh Thakker launched a website for the Instant People app

👁️ Vishal Srivastava got the first lead for tinyVision from email outreach

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

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Having Friends Makes You Healthier

Loneliness, social isolation and living alone are associated with a 30% increased risk of death.

People with stronger social connections are less likely to get a heart disease and die early.

Learn how spending time with loved ones and building supportive relationships improve your physical health and well-being.

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Practical Pessimism

The 3 steps of how negative visualization can help you prepare for potential problems:

• Imagine the worst-case scenario in detail to get ready for potential challenges and lower fear of the unknown.
• Identify steps to minimize the likelihood of your fears becoming reality.
• Make a plan to recover from potential setbacks.

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• Eduaide.ai • AI-driven workspace powered by the teacher’s expertise
  
  

☁️ Opportunities

• Use AI to learn new skills faster.
  • Ihtesham Haider used ChatGPT to learn Japanese.
  • Leon Furze knows a bit of Python. He used Claude to build a functional app over the weekend.
  • Ihor Stefurak couldn’t code. He used ChatGPT to build a Chrome extension in 10 hours, got $1,000 in pre-orders and sold it.
• Build micro-SaaS for students and teachers to boost their productivity. They are easier to support and scale.
  • Alex Muz is building StudyX that helps students do homework. He grew it to $5,000 MRR.
  • Ramsri Goutham Golla is building Questgen that generates quizzes from text in 1 click. He grew it to $2,000 MRR.
  • Declan and Dcai are building JotBot. It helps students write essays faster. They grew it to $50,000 MRR in 6 months.
  • Yousef Amirghofran is building ReportCards. It helps teachers share better feedback. He made $1,000 and is at $194 MRR.
• Join AI-powered teaching platforms as a micro-consultant. Get paid for turning years of your experience into a short call.
  • Course Hero lets you connect with a verified expert when you need more help.
  • Brainly has experts who pre-approve AI answers and are ready to help you in real time.
  • TutorOcean is an hybrid AI tutoring app. It connects students with human tutors for extra guidance, motivation or support with difficult subjects.
    
    

🔮 Predictions

• Schools will use AI to build personalized learning paths. This will boost student success based on each student’s individual learning abilities.
  • ALEKS builds dynamic learning paths based on the student’s knowledge.
  • StepWise builds personalized math learning paths for public school students.
  • Riiid in South Korea uses AI to adapt learning paths based on the student’s performance.
  • Squirrel AI in China uses AI to analyze each student’s strengths, weaknesses and learning styles.
• Online course platforms will build AI-powered learning tools for teachers and students. They will simulate the 1:1 experience of working with a human tutor.
  • Coursera made AI assistants to help teachers plan lessons, translate courses and more.
  • Khan Academy has Khanmigo. It uses your chat history to adapt each learning session to your current interests.
  • Udemy made AI learning assistants for personalized skill development. Including the GenAI Program to help teachers build and manage courses.
• Virtual AI labs will help students run experiments in a risk-free environment.
  • ELISE is building an AI-powered virtual lab for faster research.
  • PraxiLabs offers science simulations with the full teaching cycle.
    
    

🏔️ Risks

• Cognitive Offloading • Relying on external tools lowers critical thinking and memory. Having an explicit goal to memorize new material helps to mitigate this risk.
• Loss of Soft Skills • The use of AI can lower emotional intelligence, as students interact less with human teachers and peers. Which is crucial for professions that need strong interpersonal skills.
  
  

🔑 Key Lessons

• AI makes education more accessible and affordable. AI mentors can hold the knowledge of thousands of books, professors and experts. Local AI will take it even further with AI mentor apps that students will run on their laptops and phones.
• Learning doesn’t stop at school. You learn a lot from actual work. If you don’t learn AI tools that help you do your job, you may lose it to AI or to another person who uses AI to do it better.
• AI picks up on patterns in prompts that people haven’t even noticed.
  
  

🔥 Hot Takes

• Schools will offer personalized learning paths for every profession. While curriculums will act as general guidelines, each student will have its own learning path.
• AI-generated textbooks will replace printed textbooks. They will adapt to the student’s current learning goals and challenges. See how Perplexity Pages generate articles for the topics you’re interested in.
  
  

😠 Haters

“Teachers will lose jobs.”
This may or may not happen. Teachers can only be in one place at one time. AI helps students get instant answers and feedback when the teachers are not around.

“Students, who rely on AI too much, will lose problem-solving skills.”
While it’s tempting to use AI for help every time you need it. You should learn mindfully. Studying with intention and purpose is the key to student success.

“AI lacks the emotional intelligence of a real teacher.”
In MetaTrends #0002, we covered Hume AI. It’s the world’s first emotionally intelligent AI. Even if AI teaching tools don’t adopt this tech, they can free up teachers for meaningful discussions, collaborative projects and social learning activities. It’s a win-win for both teachers and students.

🔗 Links

1. The Future of Education is Wild • The thread behind this report.
2. Building a Report on AI-Powered Learning • The tweet behind this report.
3. Shaping the Future of Learning • The role of AI in education.
4. Japan’s Bold AI Education Guidelines • How AI is changing Japan’s education landscape.
5. Overcoming Learning Challenges • How AI is leading to a more inclusive learning environment.
   
   

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Thanks to Anthony DeLuise, Matt Spear and Mo. We had a great time jamming on this report.

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