This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🌟 How to find fulfillment
🎭 8 common mind games
💡 7 development principles
🚀 An all-in-one marketing platform
🍕 The 4 golden rules of effective meetings
➡️ And more…

🪶 Remember This

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🕸️ Elia Zane launched All Inclusive SEO

🖼️ Simon acquired Thumbnails Pro

🦾 Stewart Townsend wrote about AI sales agents

⭐ Pierce P. featured Dru Riley on Founder Stacks

🌐 Yuyu wrote a Google Search Console guide

📅 Maciej Cupial reached 300 paying businesses with Calendesk

🤓 Fav Finds

Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members

🍕 Effective Meetings shared by M. Yousuf Faisal
4 golden rules for effective meetings by Jeff Bezos

💡 Development Principles shared by Elie Steinbock
7 principles to guide design and engineering decisions

🚀 Systeme.io shared by Uwe Dreissigacker
An all-in-one sales funnel platform

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

🔎 GummySearch — Discover new markets on Reddit

👨‍💻 CodePal — Generate code with AI

🖼️ Aragon AI — Use AI to do a photo shoot

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Finding Fulfillment

“Carrots and sticks” are poor motivators.

People prefer (and deserve) to be driven by internal motivation, aligned with personal fulfillment.

Here’s what makes work fulfilling:

• Autonomy: You decide what to do and how to do it.
• Mastery: Great people want the opportunity to do great work.
• Purpose: We want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.
• Joy: You love doing it. At the end of a long day of doing it, you still want to do it.

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8 Common Mind Games People Play

Here are 8 mind games that people play and how you can outsmart them:

• Pretend ignorance: Playing dumb to get away with actions.
• Projection: Criticizing others for things they do themselves as well.
• Negative humor: Making remarks disguised as jokes to make you feel insecure.

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🏃‍♂️ How to manage your dopamine levels
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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

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💧 Yuyu made a water intake calculator

🎙️ Maisha Cannon was featured on the And So, She Left podcast

🛡️ M. Yousuf Faisal made a teaser video for a Securing Things Academy training

🥳 Nitesh Manav reached 10 email referrals for Trends.vc

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Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members

💲 Ghost shared by Chris Beaumont
An AI sales agent that can browse websites

🎞️ Wave.video shared by Caleb Hong
A platform for recording, editing and streaming videos

🌐 Hugo shared by Aaron Nesser
The world’s fastest framework for building websites

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

📝 AudioPen — Convert voice notes into text

👨‍💻 CodePal — Generate code with AI

🖼️ Aragon AI — Use AI to do a photo shoot

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Tools to Manage Dopamine and Improve Motivation & Drive

Dopamine is linked to our sense of motivation.

Low dopamine makes us unmotivated, tired and unable to feel pleasure from what we do.

Here’s how you can manage dopamine levels to boost motivation:

• Get early morning sunlight for 10-30 minutes daily.
• Don’t stack too many dopamine sources to avoid a crash afterward.
• Don’t view bright lights between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. This drastically lowers dopamine.

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Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business

Starting a business is hard.

Starting a bootstrapped business is harder.

You don’t want to set up a foundation that works against you.

A better approach is to work from your natural advantages, disadvantages, goals and needs.

Then use these to figure out your business model, pricing, market, product, approach, advertising and more.

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• How to boost adoption of your AI audio summarization tool?
• How to record and summarize phone calls on iOS?
• How to set up lifetime deals?
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🔍 Problem

Unstructured ideas are hard to revisit, understand and share with others.

💡 Solution

AI voice summarization tools help you turn messy thoughts into actionable notes.

🏁 Players

AI Audio Summarization Tools

• AudioPen • Create meeting notes, memos, emails, articles and more
• AudioNotes • Turn voice notes into searchable clear text summaries using AI
• TalkNotes • Let AI transcribe, clean up and structure your voice notes
• Podsqueeze • Generate show transcripts, notes, titlesa and blog posts from podcast audio
• Fireflies.ai • Transcribe, summarize, search and analyze voice conversations
  
  

🗺️ Roadmap

1️⃣ Build Your App

• Build a mobile app to let users summarize calls on the go.
  • Wave records and summarizes calls on iOS.
  • Auro is an app for summarizing voice memos.
  • Audio Diary is a voice diary that summarizes your thoughts and goals.
• Build a Chrome extension to let users take voice notes without switching tabs.
  • Fireflies.ai has an extension with unlimited meeting summaries.
  • AudioPen has an extension for recording a voice note from any browser tab.
  • Notta has an extension for recording and transcribing audio played on any website.
• Offer pre-built integrations to help users add your tool to their workflows without code.
  • Otter integrates with Zoom, Google Teams and more.
  • AudioPen lets you send notes to other apps via Zapier.
  • AudioNotes integrates with Notion, WhatsApp and other tools.
    
    

2️⃣ Pick Your Monetization Strategy

• Use subscriptions to get predictable revenue.
  • Voices.ink costs up to $24.99 per month.
  • Talknotes has a launch offer at $59 per year.
  • Auro has premium plans for up to $99.99 per year.
• Offer a lifetime deal to get early revenue.
  • AudioPen had a lifetime deal for $120.
  • AudioNotes.ai has a limited lifetime deal for $129.
  • Speech To Note has 2 lifetime deals for $249 and $499.
• Charge usage-based pricing to help users minimize costs.
  • SummarAIze costs $15 per hour.
  • Speechmatics offers pay-as-you-go pricing from $0.3 an hour.
  • Notta lets you pick the number of seats and processing minutes on the Business plan.
    
    

3️⃣ Find Your First Customers

• Build in public to get early users and feedback.
  • Nico Jeannen shares marketing strategies for Talknotes.
  • Louis Pereira shares new AudioPen features, customer stories and more.
  • Tiago Ferreira shares lessons learned while growing Podsqueeze to 500 paying users.
• Offer beta access to get feedback.
  • BrieflyAI opened early access sign-ups.
  • Klarity opened a waiting list for early users.
  • Louis Pereira asked beta users for feedback on AudioPen. It now has a beta program for paid users with early access to new features.
• Build on top of ecosystems to lower market risk.
  • Klarity saves voice note summaries to Notion.
  • Voices.ink transcribes voice memos into Notion.
  • Summarize.One is a WhatsApp bot that summarizes voice notes.
  • SpeakMemo is a Telegram bot that summarizes voice messages.
    
    

4️⃣ Improve User Experience

• Offer product guides to onboard customers faster.
  • Momentum shares how to create call summaries.
  • Fathom shares how to set up and use its features.
  • Otter shares how to manage settings and features for your meetings.
• Let users train the model to boost the accuracy of summaries.
  • Speech To Note lets you train the model to understand specific terms.
  • AudioPen lets you add names and terms that you want AudioPen to spell correctly.
  • jamie lets you add custom words and acronyms to boost the accuracy of summaries.
• Auto-detect languages to boost accuracy.
  • Letterly auto-detects 100+ languages.
  • SpeakNotes auto-detects your language.
  • OneAudio can auto-detect input and output languages.
    
    

5️⃣ Boost Brand Awareness

• Launch on Product Hunt to boost visibility and get traffic.
  • Talknotes got “1st product of the day” with 965 upvotes.
  • Supernormal got “1st product of the day” with 506 upvotes.
  • AudioPen got “1st product of the day” with 1,657 upvotes. It grew to $73,000 in revenue in 2 months.
• Let users share notes to boost virality.
  • Talknotes lets you share your notes with others.
  • AudioNotes lets you share notes via public links.
  • AudioPen lets you share branded screenshots of notes.
• Use Programmatic SEO to address high-intent searches.
  • Sonix has pages for different use cases and target audiences.
  • Fireflies.ai has pages for sales, marketing, engineering and other use cases.
  • Podsqueeze has pages for generating show notes, posts, emails, transcripts and more.
    
    

6️⃣ Scale Your Business

• Offer an interactive demo to help prospects experience value faster.
  • Deepgram has an API playground.
  • AssemblyAI has a playground to test its API.
  • AudioPen lets you take a sample voice note in the browser.
• Build an affiliate program to monetize traffic.
  • Audionotes offers a 30% affiliate commission.
  • Podium offers a 30% commission on every new sale. 
  • Podsqueeze offers a 25% commission on every sale for 15 months.
• Use side project marketing to build brand awareness and generate leads.
  • Otter has a meeting cost calculator.
  • Notta has free tools for turning audio and videos to text.
  • Talknotes has free MP3-to-text and voice memo transcription tools.
  • SpeakNotes has 7 free tools for summarizing meetings, lectures and interviews.
    
    

😠 Haters

“AI audio summarization tools may harm our ability to listen actively.”
To build active listening skills, use AI audio summarization tools to take notes rather than replace a genuine conversation with your friends, teachers and colleagues.

“AI voice summarization tools may erode our writing skills.”
If you use such tools, regularly engage in traditional writing to keep the nuances of written language.

“AI audio summarization tools have weak moats.”
This is true for most AI tools. But who says every product must last long? If you can make years of revenue in months, seize the opportunity.

🔗 Links

1. Building an AI Audio Summarization Tool in Public • The thread behind this report.
2. Building a Report on AI Audio Summarization Tools • The tweet behind this report.
3. The Power of Audio Summarization • Popular use cases for AI audio summarization tools.
4. AI That Summarizes Audio For You • Overview of the AI audio summarization models and methods.
   
   

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🤖 What we don’t know about AI
📝 Making websites from Apple Notes
⏳ Time management tips of busy people
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📧 Elie Steinbock launched Simple Email Mode for Inbox Zero

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📝 Montaigne shared by Ash
A tool to convert Apple Notes into websites

🔍 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

🛠️ Tools of the Week

🛡️ CodeWP — Make WordPress plugins with AI

🖼️ Aragon AI — Use AI to do a photo shoot

🎙️ Podsqueeze — 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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• How to build trust and get early fans?
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• How to future-proof your career as a software engineer.
  
  

🔍 Problem

Software engineers are hard to find, recruit and compensate.

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

💡 Solution

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

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

🗺️ Roadmap

1️⃣ Pick Your Niche

AI Coding Assistants

• CodePal • Dozens of AI code generation tools
• CodeWP • AI chat and coding tools for WordPress creators
• GitHub Copilot • The world’s most widely adopted AI developer tool
• Bito • Accessible, accurate AI tools trusted by developers across the world
• Amazon CodeWhisperer • Your AI-powered productivity tool for the IDE and command line
• Tabnine • Private and personalized AI coding assistant
• Codeium • The most intelligent AI code generation tool
• Sourcegraph Cody • Search, write and understand code fast
• CodeGPT • AI code chat, auto-completion, explanation, error-checking and more
• AutoCode Pro • Build Chrome extensions, web and mobile apps from text
• AlphaCode • 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.
  • Tabnine works with 15 code editors.
  • Codeium works with 40+ code editors.
  • Codebuddy works with 16 code editors.
• 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.
  • Shawn Wang is building smol.ai in public.
  • William Zeng and Kevin Lu are building Sweep in public.
  • Sandeep Pani and Naresh Ramesh are building Aide in public.
    
    

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 “Code Generator for [Programming Language]”.
• Become a guest on interviews to boost your visibility.
  • Amar Goel shared Bito on the AI Chat podcast.
  • Eran Yahav talked about building Tabnine with Kyle Simpson.
  • Kevin Hou talked about building Codeium at the Syntax podcast.
  • Allan Mørch shares how he beat cancer and grew AskCodi to $5,000,000 ARR.
• Launch on ProductHunt to get more traffic.
  • Bito got “3rd product of the day” with 460 upvotes.
  • Fine got “2nd product of the day” with 737 upvotes.
  • Sourcery got “4th 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.
    
    

🔗 Links

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

🙏 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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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.

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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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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.

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• 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.
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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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• Offer stock assets to help users streamline video creation.
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• Share video templates to help users overcome creative blocks.
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  • VEED has a free silence remover.
  • Opus Clip has a free tool for generating captions.
  • Kapwing has free tools such as an AI subtitle generator.
• Offer a demo to get warm leads.
  • Vimeo lets you play with its transcript editor.
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  • Typeframes lets you generate and edit a sample video from text.
    
    

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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.
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