This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🌱 36 life lessons
🚀 A list of launch platforms
💬 An AI voice dictation tool
⛰️ How to make better career choices
🍌 A collection of Nano Banana use cases
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
Execution is getting easier. Attention is getting harder.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
💬 Typeless shared by Shushant Lakhyani
An AI voice dictation tool with real-time editing
🚀 Launch Platforms List shared by Shivam
10 launch platforms to get your first SaaS customers
🍌 Awesome Nano Banana Images shared by Alper Tunga
A collection of images and prompts made with Nano Banana
🧿 Guess the Company
This scheduling platform just replaced “Custom Pricing” on their Enterprise plan with actual numbers. Tiny copy change that sends a big signal about who they want as customers.
They realized they can save time and energy by filtering out people who won’t pay their minimum rates upfront.
Can you name the company?
- Calendesk
- Clockwise
- Calendly
- Doodle
Don’t cheat: You can read more about this here.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🧿 Dru Riley improved feedback collection for alerts in HeadsUp.
⚙️ Jd Fiscus made a video on building an AI-powered social media scheduler
📨 Elie Steinbock posted a customer case study for Inbox Zero
🗣️ Alper Tunga became a representative for Kombai
✍️ Knight posted his August recap
📘 Read This
What Would You Tell Your Younger Self About Life?
Sam Altman turned 30 and distilled a decade of experience into 36 life lessons that challenge how most people think about work, relationships and taking risks.
Here’s what stands out:
- Take calculated risks, especially early in your career
- Work extremely hard but not so hard that life passes you by
- Choose truly close friends over hundreds of acquaintances time is limited
- Remember that youth is valuable, so don’t waste it overthinking every decision
🐦 Tweet of the Week
🛠️ Tools of the Week
💲 Reply.io — Automate sales outreach
🎞️ Zubtitle — Edit social media videos fast
📊 Julius AI — Analyze your data with computational AI
💬 Join the Conversation
Here’s what Trends Pro Members are talking about…
- (📈 Pro) Best blogging platforms
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- (📈 Pro) Best prompt engineering courses
❔ Ask Yourself
How Do You Know If You’re Doing The Wrong Thing?
Here’s how to not get trapped into optimizing the wrong life path:
- Add randomness to your career path early on
- Recognize when you’re climbing a hill you don’t want to reach the top of
- Resist the lure of immediate upward steps when you can see a better hill in the distance
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