This week’s Founder Finds includes:

👨‍💻 A visual AI agent builder
🎨 Content creation in the age of AI
🌪️ The power of negative visualization
🤝 The health benefits of social connections
📱 A book on brand building on social media
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A year from now you will wish you had started today.

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Build LLM prompt graphs for AI agents visually

🎨 The Internet Creator’s Guide to the Future shared by Kevin Galang
A podcast episode on the future of content creation in the age of AI

📱 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

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

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🔎 GummySearch — Discover new markets on Reddit

👤 ​Synthesia​ — Create videos with AI avatars and voiceovers

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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.

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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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• How did a non-developer sell a Chrome extension made by AI?
• Who grew a homework helper to $5,000 per month?
• Who reached $50,000 MRR in 6 months with an essay writing tool?
• How will schools adapt curriculums to individual learning abilities?
• What online tools simulate the 1:1 human tutor experience?
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💎 Why It Matters

AI turns standardized curriculums into customized learning paths.

🔍 Problem

The traditional education system is not flexible.

It does not meet your diverse interests and the individual pace of learning.

💡 Solution

AI is a more productive and personalized learning experience.

Students get instant, personalized feedback.

Teachers can focus on mentoring students.

🏁 Players

AI Tools For Students

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☁️ 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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• Notion Templates • Organize your work and life in one place
• Short-Form Videos • The play button is the most compelling call to action on the web
• AI Impact on Work • How to adapt to the great AI job shift
  

🙏 Thanks

Thanks to Anthony DeLuise, Matt Spear and Mo. 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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🔍 How to validate demand
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A guide on running your own AI locally

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

❌ Kevin Galang wrote about his failed projects

🤖 Eddie Forson is making a video series on AI agents

🌐 Simon closed a strong first month with Dude Domains

🚀 Prabhjot Singh Lamba reached 14,000 users for Does It Exist with its Product Hunt launch

☀️ Pooja Patel wrote about getting out of a bad mood

👥 Katt Risen reached 10,000 followers on X

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

📝 Fireflies.ai — Automate meeting notes

🔎 GummySearch — Discover new markets on Reddit

👤 ​Synthesia​ — Create videos with AI avatars and voiceovers

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7 Ways To Build a Distraction-Free Environment

Here’s how you can block distractions to get more done:

• Use focused intervals to lower procrastination when tackling large tasks.
• Set reasonable goals and add urgency to do the most important tasks first.
• Put meeting-free blocks in your calendar to dedicate time for focused work.

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Exact Formula For Turning $100 Into $100,000/Month

Here’s how to 10x your income without working harder:

• Get leads early: Build an audience and presell to validate demand.
• Experiment more: Test and iterate on your ideas, products and strategies.
• Validate fast: Build a waiting list or discussion group to gauge interest and gather feedback from potential customers.

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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

💲 Stewart Townsend wrote about the risks of AI in sales

🎤 Jeremy Toeman spoke at the VON conference

🤖 Vesh Thakker is organizing a Meetup group on AI

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📈 Katt Risen broke their revenue record with Build The Keyword

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How to Run Ads Profitably

In this video, you’ll go from zero to hero in Facebook advertising:

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Learn To Say No

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Learn how to say “no” and feel great:

• Give an “empowered refusal” — a no that’s phrased in a way that makes it less likely to create offense or pushback.
• Start saying no to the things that don’t matter and spend more of your time on the things that do.

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The “Errors” That Mean You’re Doing It Right

Some “errors” are positive signs of progress.

• If you’re not fixing lots of bugs after a release, you launched too late
• If you’re not pivoting a wrong strategy, you risk the future of your company
• If you’re not rebuilding your infrastructure after growing 10x, you over-engineered early

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How To Deal With Negative Emotional Triggers

It’s easy to stay calm when things are under control. But, sometimes, life happens.

A deadline is moved up. Your train is canceled. Someone yelled at you.

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• Identify the emotion: It’s a mental state that you can alter.
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It becomes your advisor, not a supervisor.

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  • Pieter Levels grew TherapistAI to $2,000/mo. He says local LLMs are perfect for sensitive use cases and plans to turn it into a client-side chatbot.
• Build a user-friendly interface to help non-technical users connect, train and use local AI. Great UI leads to great UX.
  • LM Studio lets you build, run and chat with local LLMs.
  • WebLLM is an in-browser AI engine for using local LLMs.
  • TypingMind lets you self-host local LLMs on your own infrastructure.
• Make tutorials to help people build, run and use local AI models.
  • Matthew Berman shows how to run any AI model with LM Studio.
  • Zoltan C. Toth teaches The Local LLM Crash Course. He’s got 2,769 students.
  • Sam Witteveen made a series of tutorials on running local AI models with Ollama.
  • Eden Marco teaches how to build LLM apps with LangChain. He’s got 56,404 students.
  • Sharath Raju teaches how to use LangChain with Llama 2 and HuggingFace. He’s got 10,657 students.
    
    

🔮 Predictions

• We’ll see virtual companies of AI agents that work together locally.
  • Camel lets you use open-source AI models to build role-playing AI agents.
  • OpenAGI lets you use local models to build collaborative AI teams. Here’s an example of an AI team that writes blogs.
  • MetaGPT lets you build a collaborative entity for complex tasks. It works best with commercial models, but you can use open-source AI too.
  • ChatDev uses several AI agents with different roles to build software. They collaborate by “attending” specialized seminars on design, coding, testing and more.
• We’ll be able to build AI apps visually, without code. This will let non-technical users build complex apps for their workflows.
  • Flowise lets you build custom LLM flows and AI agents.
  • Langflow offers a visual interface for building AI-powered apps.
  • Obviously AI lets you build production-ready AI apps without code.
• Lack of censorship will become a better selling point. Users will prefer unfiltered creativity over censored tools that refuse to do controversial, yet legal tasks.
  • Venice is a privacy-first chatbot that stores chats in your browser.
  • xAI is an AI lab led by Elon Musk. It released Grok-1, an open-source and uncensored alternative to OpenAI.
  • Perplexity made uncensored AI models that outperformed GPT-3.5 and Llama 2. Paired with browser access, they went too far. Since they weren’t open-source, they were taken down in 6 months.
    
    

🏔️ Risks

• Hardware Requirements • If you’re serious about running AI models locally, you may need to buy a new computer. Depending on your needs and preferences, this may cost a few thousand dollars.
• UX Issues • You may not be able to use multiple models simultaneously. You can open ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in different tabs. But running more than one local AI model with billions of parameters can be impossible.
  
  

🔑 Key Lessons

• The performance gap between local and cloud AI is closing.
• Local AI is self-sufficient. You can ask for help anytime, anywhere, as long as you have your device with you. No internet connection required.
  
  

🔥 Hot Takes

• Governments will regulate local AI on par with centralized models. They still pose risks similar to proprietary models.
• China will beat the US in the AI race. Chinese open-source models already beat open-source models from the US. Eventually, Chinese proprietary models will catch up too. The US will try to limit the public access to AI research. Such concerns have already been stated.
  
  

😠 Haters

“I need more expensive and powerful hardware to run local AI models.”
This is the main tradeoff for local AI at the moment. But it’s becoming more performant. See how llama.cpp lets you run them on consumer devices and how Apple is doing this on a grand scale. This may be an inflection point for hardware and local AI.

“Setup and onboarding is hard. I can’t just visit a URL.”
User experience with local AI is a solvable problem. We’re getting there with open-source tools that make setting up local AI easier. Ollama lets you set up Llama 3 in 10 minutes. 

“Local AI models perform worse than AI models made by tech giants.”
Open-source AI models can be a little worse, but a lot more private and less censored. Depending on your use case, it can be wise to sacrifice quality without giving up your privacy.

“Providing support for models running locally sounds impossible.”
This is another tradeoff of local LLMs. Unless the model becomes unusable, users can use an AI model to debug another AI model. This guy uses local AI models as copilots for coding copilots.

“Local AI models aren’t a panacea for AI-related data privacy issues.”
This is the risk of storing data in digital form. “Private”, local AI may not protect your data if your computer is compromised.

🔗 Links

1. Open-Source AI Is Wild • The thread behind this report.
2. Building a Report on Local AI • The tweet behind this report.
3. Open LLM Leaderboard • 100+ open-source AI models with performance tests.
4. Why I Use Open Weights LLMs Locally • The benefits of using locally hosted open LLMs.
   
   

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