This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🔥 35 hot startup ideas
🎯 An AI marketing tool
🤖 Predictions on AGI-level AI
🔄 As essay on startup success
🔀 What makes users switch products?
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Motivation gets you going. Discipline keeps you growing.

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🤖 Thoughts on the Eve of AGI shared by Sam McKay
A series of predictions about the impact of AGI-level language models

🎯 M1-Project shared by Shushant Lakhyani
An AI marketing tool that generates marketing strategies and audience insights

🔄 Redefining Startup Success shared by Grady Laksmono
The story of Gumroad’s pivot to focus on impact over valuation

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🎵 Noel Jackson opened Sonica for public access

🎙️ Hitesh Kar is giving free access to Horsy podcast summaries for the first 1,000 subscribers

📺 Shushant Lakhyani collected 10 AI-related YouTube channels

💻 Lola Shonaike posted a video about quitting a $225,000 software engineering job

🚀 Grady Laksmono is launching FinBud.ai on Product Hunt soon

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What Are The Hottest SaaS Ideas Now?

Here are the 35 hottest startup ideas in AI, SaaS, B2C and more:

• Automate TikTok Shop inventory: Build tools for $100,000/mo sellers to prevent stock issues – it’s a new market that’s growing fast and sellers will pay to avoid lost sales.
• Cut companies’ AI spending: Make software that finds wasted API spend for companies burning $10,000+ monthly – instant cost savings means easy sales.
• Speed up visa processing: Create tools that cut immigration lawyers’ paperwork from 6 to 1 hour per case – they’ll pay well for more efficiency.

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What Will People Stop Doing Once They Start Using Your Product?

Here’s how to answer the key question every customer has:

• Focus on what users will quit: Instead of listing new features, identify what habits and existing solutions your product will replace. Breaking old habits is your biggest challenge.
• Understand user inertia: People cling to familiar ways due to habit, anxiety and comfort. Know exactly what you’re asking them to leave behind.
• Help make the switch: Address the emotional and practical barriers that keep people tied to their current solutions and make the transition seamless.

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🤖 An AI reading list
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✅ Key signs of product-market fit
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🔍 Beating Google at Search shared by Eddie Forson
A podcast episode on building an AI-based search engine

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📅 Jason A Erickson launched 1yr.net

🐎 Hitesh Kar launched Horsy on Product Hunt

📨 Elie Steinbock reached 10,000 sign-ups for InboxZero

🎨 Yuyu launched CMYK to Pantone Converter on Product Hunt

🥇 Ash made a collection of ‘Best of’ lists for 2024

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How to Know If You’ve Got Product-Market Fit?

Here are the key signs of true product-market fit:

• Watch user behavior: Look for visible excitement (“Where have you been all my life?”), strong retention curves and users who keep coming back even when your product is broken.
• Measure real commitment: Get people to pay before launch, survey if they’d be “very disappointed” without your product (aim for >40%) and watch for organic growth from word of mouth.
• Check growth efficiency: Your sales should be efficient (costs less to acquire users than they’re worth) and organic (>50% of new users come directly). If you’re pushing too hard to grow, you haven’t found fit.

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How to Build Toughness Under Pressure?

True happiness means accepting both good and bad emotions, not trying to be happy all the time:

• When stress hits, focus on recovery – take real breaks from work.
• Build quality relationships – they’re the top factor in both happiness and bouncing back from hard times.
• Become antifragile – like muscles grow bigger the more you stress them, learn to thrive under pressure.

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☀️ The benefits of sunlight
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🤖 AI Use Cases shared by Sam McKay
321 examples of how gen AI is used in the real-world

🎨 Landing Page Guide shared by Matt Spear
A guide to improving your SaaS homepage

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

💹 Grady Laksmono launched FinBud.ai

⚔️ Devon Artis wrote about adversarial testing of AI

🤏 Avy Leghziel wrote about tiny changes

👨‍💻 Elie Steinbock had a 76-day coding streak in 2024

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

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What Are The Most Disruptive Pricing Models?

Companies are moving from charging monthly fees per user to charging based on what their AI tools actually do:

• Price based on AI output (like solved problems or finished tasks) instead of results – it’s simpler to track and prove.
• Make pay-per-use pricing work for big clients by offering yearly credits, grace periods and rolling over unused credits.
• Get ready to change how you run things – rethink sales pay, expect bumpy revenue and focus more on helping customers succeed.

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How Can Light Improve Your Mental and Physical Health?

Here’s how sunlight can make your mind and body healthier:

1. Get 5-10 minutes of morning sunlight daily to boost your mood, focus and sleep quality.
2. Get some afternoon sun to reinforce your sleep cycle and help your body know when it’s time to wind down.
3. Use bright overhead lights in the morning and dim them in the afternoon to match the sun’s natural cycle. This helps with alertness and sleep. Avoid bright lights at night to protect your sleep. If you need to get up at night, use dim red lights.

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🎁 The best AI apps of 2024
🦾 A guide to building AI agents
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💡 Why challenge core assumptions
🌱 How to improve all aspects of your life
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The best AI apps of 2024 according to a16z

🌐 Do Browser shared by Stewart Townsend
An AI agent Chrome extension to automate complex tasks

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👁️ Elie Steinbock made a video about app QA with computer vision

👨‍💻 Sam McKay is open sourcing Prompt Array

🎨 Yuyu built a color converter

🖼️ Shushant Lakhyani wrote a Canva guide

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How to Improve All Aspects of Your Life?

Here’s how tiny changes in your day can make a big difference in your life:

• Start with one good habit and make it a routine. Once that’s easy, add more good habits. Don’t change everything at once.
• Find a habit that makes it easier to do other good things. If you start exercising, you might also find it easier to eat healthy and sleep better.
• Instead of forcing yourself to make good choices, let your good habit lead the way. If you drink water when you wake up, let that help you choose a healthy breakfast.

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Are You Wrong About Your Customers?

Traditional “best practices” like $.99 pricing aren’t always optimal.

Canva found charging $15 instead of $14.99 performed better.

The point is… Challenge your core assumptions by running experiments, as market behaviors and customer preferences often change and defy conventional wisdom.

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💀 Is SaaS dying?
🔮 Predictions for 2025
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💪 An efficient workout routine
🛠️ A collection of custom Cursor rules
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Think about how you’re going to distribute your product, then work backwards from there.

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💀 SaaS is Dying shared by Sam McKay
An X thread on the changing landscape of SaaS

🕵🏼 Visualping shared by Elia Zane
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🔮 Predictions for 2025 shared by Grady Laksmono
A Hacker News thread on predictions for 2025

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

💌 Shushant Lakhyani launched his personal email newsletter

🤖 Eddie Forson wrote about starting an AI consultancy

🔄 Yuyu launched flipanimage.xyz

🧰 Katt Risen is hosting a Build Challenge in January 2025

👥 Noel Jackson unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups

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How to Build Products Over The Weekend?

Cursor is the best way to code with AI.

Here’s the Cursor Directory – a collection of custom rules to guide Cursor to achieve the best results.

Pick roles, coding languages and implementation guidelines to customize this AI software engineer to your needs.

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How to Build More Muscles in Less Time?

Use this workout routine if you’re short on time:

• For overall health benefits, 30-60 minutes of lifting per week is enough.
• You can gain significant strength with just one heavy set (1-3 reps) per exercise, done 1-3 times per week. Focus on lifting heavy weights in the 1-5 rep range.
• To grow muscles, do 1-4 sets per muscle group per week. While volume is on the lower end, it can still lead to big gains, especially when combined with drop sets and supersets.

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🕸️ An SEO newsletter
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Find a goal, make it your daily priority.

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An SEO newsletter with in-depth reports

⚙️ Albato shared by Devon Artis
A no-code automation platform

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🤖 Eddie Forson launched an AI consulting company

🤝 Stewart Townsend wrote about B2B channel partnerships

🎨 Katt Risen updated her personal website

📩 Elie Steinbock posted a monthly report for Inbox Zero

🎶 Darren Travel made a music video with AI

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How to Make $10,000 with a Community

Here’s how to build a profitable paid community online:

• Validate your community idea: Find a community of people who already have a problem and solve that problem through your community.
• Focus on implementation over information: Add a community aspect to your online courses to boost accountability and student success.
• Offer a tiered pricing model for your online course: Have a lower option with less support and a higher option with coaching or group calls.

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10 Minimalist Rules That Will Change Your Life

Here are the best storytelling tactics to help you influence and inspire the people:

• Designed to improve your storytelling skills and help you influence people.
• The entire storytelling process: from understanding the need for a story to identifying your target audience.
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🎙️ Castmagic shared by Elia Zane
An AI tool that creates additional content from longform audio

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

💬 Sam McKay launched Prompt Array

🤖 Gunjan Titiya launched an AI literacy workshop

💌 Paul Metcalfe turned Newsletter Insiders into a paid community

🥉 Devon Artis got 3rd place in the Humane Intelligence Bias Bounty Challenge

👥 Tim Guruge unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups

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10 Ways to Prepare For The Unknown

Here are 10 ways how you can predict future trends in business and life:

• If you’re over the age of 25, assume your initial reactions about new trends are wrong.
• If people talk about it on Reddit, you’re early. If they talk about it on LinkedIn, you’re late.
• If multiple smart people tell you about a new idea, don’t delay betting on it before you understand it. If you wait for society to educate you, you’ll be too late.

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54 Best Storytelling Tactics

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🖼️ Yuyu bought and rebuilt pfpresizer.com

🤖 Eddie Forson wrote about why we need AI agents

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

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Piss Off 80% to Please 20%

Here’s how you can build a strong brand:

• Have a clear personality and don’t be afraid to stand out.
• Please a smaller group of people who truly resonate with your brand.
• Use a bold voice to connect with your target audience and stay top of mind.

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How to Build a Business While Raising Kids

The stakes are high and the hours are long. But the rewards can be great if you can find the right balance:

• Set the right priorities: Schedule your most important tasks strategically.
• Build a strong support system: Rely on family, friends or professional services to help with childcare or business needs.
• Set clear limits: Establish specific work hours and share them with your family and clients. Build physical and mental spaces to separate work from family time.

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💰 A $12,000/mo micro-SaaS
🏷️ Black Friday pricing tactics
⚙️ Automating business growth
👩‍🏫 Why smart people are bad teachers
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💰 $12,000/mo Micro-SaaS shared by Elie Steinbock
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🏷️ Why You Should Offer a Black Friday Discount shared by Katt Risen
Insights into Black Friday pricing of digital products

🤖 Sapling shared by Hitesh Kar
A toolkit to add AI-powered functionality to your apps

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

💯 Eddie Forson reached 100 subscribers on Substack

🔬 Simon reached 1,000 users on MicroAssets marketplace

🎓 Hj Barraza closed the first client for Astraed for Education

👨‍💻 Gunjan Titiya wrote about connecting AI with cloud services

🪦 Ash built a tombstone generator

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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 to Automate Your Business Growth?

To boost growth, you need to solve the right problem for the people who know about it and are willing to solve it:

• Solve a painful problem. This sets a real business apart  from a pet project.
• Build credibility. Your customers should trust you and your product. Otherwise, they won’t sign up.
• Build customer avatars. Your customers should be aware of the problem and are willing to solve it. You can’t build a great user acquisition strategy if you don’t know who you’re targeting.

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Why Are Smart People Bad Teachers?

The curse of knowledge occurs when you know something so well that you forget what it’s like not to know it.

This makes it hard to explain things to others in a way they can understand.

Here’s how to deal with it:

• Know your audience: Ask your potential customers a few questions before starting your sales pitch.
• Simplify your language: Use simple language and clear examples to make your point.
• Show, don’t tell. A picture can be worth a thousand words.

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This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🎬 An AI text-to-video tool
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❤️ A book on customer loyalty
🗂️ A knowledge management app
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🗂️ Capacities shared by Reme Ekoh
A note-taking and knowledge management tool

🎬 Zebracat shared by Pavels Gurskis
A text-to-video tool for marketing videos

❤️ Never Lose a Customer Again shared by Maciej Cupial
A book on building customer loyalty

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🎙️ Shiv Mehta started season 2 of the Proof of Work Podcast

🧰 AJ curated 170 free tools for founders

🛖 Simon updated the landing page of Hacker Cabin

🤖 Maciej Cupial started an AI podcast for Calendesk

🎓 Devon Artis wrote about his experience on taking the AWS AI Practitioner Beta Exam

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ 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 to Solve The Right Problems?

Use problem mapping to start solving problems that actually matter:

• Break down a problem into smaller parts. See how they connect and figure out which part to tackle first.
• Explore all possible causes of stalled growth. Such as app glitches, confusing design changes or increased competition.
• Predict future challenges by thinking ahead. Think of the potential consequences of your decisions to avoid future crises.

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43 Design Practices of Great Products

Interaction design separates good products from great products:

• Make it obvious: When a user can take an action, make it clear.
• Use scarcity: Let your users know when something is in limited supply.
• Show benefits everywhere: Your user is always asking “what’s in it for me?”

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