This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- A no-code website builder
- How to write great content
- 100 ways to improve your life
- How to get newsletter subscribers
- 15 frameworks for building products
- How to use ChatGPT for marketing
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
Gatekeepers can only “gatekeep” so much of the world, but it’s a big world out there. Don’t let anyone stop you.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🤖 SaaS Marketing with ChatGPT shared by Mark Grimes
An article about how SaaS businesses can use AI tools for marketing
💌 How To Get Newsletter Subscribers shared by Fausto Sá Teles
A collection of resources by Josh Spector about growing your newsletter
🏗️ Dorik shared by Giovanni Vanini
A no-code website builder for quickly setting up your landing page or full-fledged website
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100 Ways to Improve Your Life Without Really Trying
From using a sharp knife to saying hello to your neighbors. There are small things that can improve your mood, health and relationships with little effort.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“I started being more active in the Trends Pro Community recently. I love the way people help each other. There’s an excellent vibe here.“
Vin is building Brandhero. A strategic design outfit which helps people move forward faster and acquire more customers with effective UX design strategies, product design and user-centric web experiences.
He’s also building template libraries to help founders launch websites faster on Webflow, Bubble, Framer and other no-code tools. Along with a UI/UX Audit productized service.
Vin is also a member of Trends Mastermind #0010.
What’s your most important habit?
Going into deep creative work. Reaching flow state each day for 1-3 hours.
What are you reading right now?
What product are you obsessively using right now?
Learning to build in Framer. I love the way we can make responsive websites, with customizations, in a no-code way. I am also learning Bubble. I like the way it gives you freedom to build anything without knowing how to code.
What are you bullish on?
The evolution of the digital design industry, async communication and remote work culture.
What are you bearish on?
Writing skills and services seem to be slowly becoming a commodity (with constantly improving AI/GPT models).
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🤑 Million-Dollar, One-Person Businesses
It aligns with my business vision and shows examples of how much is possible.
Exclusive Deal: Vin is offering Trends.vc readers 50% off his landing page hero section redesign service. Get the discounted price here.
📘 Read This
Applying Mental Models to Building Digital Products
Brian Bassett shares 15 frameworks to help you build better products and businesses.
Learn how to find the right problem, features and tasks to work on.
- Pareto Principle: 80% of results come from 20% of inputs.
- Parkinson’s Law: Work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.
- Jobs-to-be-Done: Learn what specific goal your customers want to achieve.
🎧 Listen To
David Perell and Tim Urban talk about writing great content for your blog, book or social media by focusing on your readers, stories and personality.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Nicolo’ Borghi, Zaid Kaleem, Ritesh Ranjan, Josh Colter and Sean Murphy unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
🏃♀️ David Getchel built a HIIT training web app
🎨 Vasil launched Designcrafter on Product Hunt
🏦 Sean Murphy wrote a recap of the SVB Shutdown
👗 Lwany closed a sponsorship deal for Petite Fashion Weekly
🗣️ Stewart Townsend spoke at a virtual CRO summit
🤖 Thomas Sorheim’s Practical AI newsletter reached 500+ subscribers
📈 Milly Tamati crossed $28k ARR with Generalist World, hired her first employee and held a workshop
🧠 Vinamra Agrawal and Jarrad Pouncil unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching 10-day standup streaks
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