This week’s Founder Finds includes:

💝 1,000 true fans
🦾 An AI agent Python library
🎯 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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🤔 Dangerous myths of “successful” people
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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

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🛠️ Tools of the Week

📝 Fireflies.ai — Automate meeting notes

🖼️ Aragon AI — Use AI to do a photo shoot

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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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🚀 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

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

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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
📚 How to use storytelling in SaaS
🖱️ An AI to automate your desktop
🤔 Handling objections on your landing page
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Small efforts compound daily.

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🖱️ Realtime Computer Autopilot shared by Lwany
An AI tool that performs tasks on your PC with mouse and keyboard

🎯 How To Be Successful shared by Alper Tunga
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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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

💡 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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💸 A report on thriving online businesses
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Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

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👩‍💻 Context7 shared by Elia Zane
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A platform to test top AI models in one place

💸 March 2025 Internet Income Report shared by Paul Metcalfe
A report on digital startup trends and opportunities

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🛡️ Jordon McKoy launched the waitlist for Redactly

🦾 Eddie Forson wrote about building effective AI agents

🤖 Elie Steinbock opened the waitlist for Cursor Mastery

📈 Yuyu started earning ad revenue with his EMD niche sites

🧠 Nathan Sudds and Benhur Desta unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching 30-day standup streaks

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❔ Ask Yourself

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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🔥 A directory of tiny teams
🌱 How to do $0 marketing
🔍 An SEO Chrome extension
🧠 Shopify’s internal memo on AI
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Your ‘not-to-do’ list should be longer than your to-do list.

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🔍 Detailed shared by Elia Zane
An SEO extension for Chrome

🔥 Tiny Teams shared by Elie Steinbock
A directory of tech companies with small teams

🧠 Shopify AI Memo shared by Kevin Galang
An internal memo on how Shopify is embracing AI

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

📚 Darren Travel is relaunching MicroChapters

🥈 Elie Steinbock ranked 2nd worldwide on Github Trending with Inbox Zero

👨‍💻 Nathan Sudds is hosting co-working meetups in Asunción

⚙️ Barun Pandey shared his ad creation workflow using GPT-4o

🤖 Eddie Forson’s article on DeepSeek v3 was published on Medium

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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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🤔 What is the Claude “think” tool
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⚡ How LLMs benefit individuals first
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Daily small steps beat occasional big jumps.

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💻 Cursor Playbooks shared by Elie Steinbock
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🤔 Claude “Think” Tool shared by Eddie Forson
A new approach that improves Claude’s problem-solving skills

⚡ Power to the People shared by Sam McKay
An essay on how LLMs benefit individuals before organizations

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

⭐ Kevin Galang is starting The $1M Year Project

🖼️ Eddie Forson wrote about OpenAI’s image generation model

🎮 Elie Steinbock made a game about cleaning your inbox

🎧 Hj Barraza reached 1,000 subscribers for Audioresúmenes

💿 Darren Travel made a music album for vibe coding

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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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💭 46 predictions on AI
💪 An essay on high agency
💼 Building a SaaS while working full-time
🎯 Getting from “Don’t Care” to “Buy Now”
📊 An AI agent team for influencer marketing
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The harder you work, the more luck you’ll have.

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46 implications of recent developments in AI

💪 High Agency shared by Eddie Forson
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📊 Aha shared by Shushant Lakhyani
A multi-agent AI tool for influencer marketing

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

👨‍💻 Elie Steinbock made a video on his Cursor MDC rules

📅 Maciej Cupial reached $20,000 MRR with Calendesk

🎨 Yuyu added a color matching game to CMYK Pantone

🥇 Grady Laksmono reached 1st place on Uneed with FinBud.ai

📄 Shushant Lakhyani collected 10 AI cheatsheets

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Do this if you want to build a SaaS business while working full-time:

• Automate the boring stuff: Use tools like Zapier for data tasks, templates for common emails and batch your social posts. Free up time for what matters.
• Break it down, stay connected: Split big goals into weekly wins, join communities and build in public to keep your ultimate goal visible. Small progress compounds over time.
• Focus on high-impact hours: Block out your most productive time (early morning or late night), batch tasks and protect your energy. Treat them like meetings you can’t miss.

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Many businesses make the mistake of leading with their own story.

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How Did This 17-Year Old Build a $1.12M/Year AI App?

Here’s how Zach Yadegari built a million-dollar AI app that tracks calories:

• Design for sharing and simplicity: Create a “wow moment” that makes users want to share (like instant calorie counting from photos). Keep everything else dead simple – one core feature, clear pricing, easy onboarding.
• Master influencer marketing: Find creators with real engagement (1-3% rate, 50,000+ views), negotiate bundled deals ($750/video) and engage in comments to boost algorithmic reach.
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How to Get Paid Users with Feature Gating?

Great products tactfully guide users from free to paid plans without frustrating them.

• Display progress toward usage limits, like Todoist showing 3/5 projects used, instead of surprising users when they hit the limit
• When users hit a limit, don’t just ask for money – show the full value of upgrading, like Beehiiv’s feature landing pages inside their app
• Signal what’s premium before users click – use consistent visual markers (like Buffer’s purple lightning) to show which features need upgrading

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Here’s how a father of a newborn automated his life with tech to escape overwhelm:

• Build healthy habits through fitness apps like Ladder and cooking apps like Deglaze
• Automate mundane tasks instead of relying on willpower and self-discipline – use tools like Brick to block distractions
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• Optimize pages close to ranking: Find your keywords that are ranking on page 2 or bottom of page 1 in Google, then improve those pages first. These are your fastest wins.
• Build authority smartly: Mix guest posts, social signals and strategic linking. Focus on top-funnel content if new, mid/bottom-funnel if established. Double down on what works.
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