This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- Understanding your power users
- A link-in-bio tool for indie hackers
- How to grow a podcast to 125M views
- How to pitch your startup in 3 minutes
- How AI is changing the mobile industry
- How to quickly analyze PDFs with ChatGPT
- How to launch a Web3 referral program in minutes
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
The biggest risk is not taking any risk.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🗣 ChatPDF shared by Alexandro Armour
Analyze textbooks, legal contracts, business proposals, handouts, presentations and more
📱 AI’s Effects on the Mobile Landscape shared by Mark Grimes
An article on how AI is transforming the mobile industry
📄 Indie Page shared by Jordan Divecha
A link-in-bio tool for indie hackers
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Pitch your Startup in 3 Minutes
Use this 16-part formula to build a pitch that grabs attention, explains your vision and boosts your chances to get funding.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“I love the weekly mastermind sessions in Trends Pro. I haven’t missed a week in the 6 months or so I’ve been doing it.“
Elie is building ShareMint. A platform that helps Web3 teams launch affiliate and referral programs in minutes. So that they can partner with top communities, influencers and projects. Elie is also a member of Trends Mastermind #0003.
What’s your most important habit?
I completely take off every Saturday. I don’t use my phone or computer.
As a founder it’s tough, but it forces me to spend time with my family and helps avoid burnout. It’s nice to have a day without constant notifications.
What are you reading right now?
1. The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday (book)
2. Dotcom Secrets by Russell Brunson (audiobook)
Because my Trends.vc mastermind group members recommended them 🙂
The Obstacle is the Way is about stoicism, a topic I don’t know too much about, so I figured it would be good to learn.
Dotcom Secrets is about marketing and selling online, an important topic for any entrepreneur to learn more about.
What product or service do you wish existed?
ChatGPT to code features and fix bugs on large/complex codebases.
The challenge is to make it work on large existing projects where changes are needed across many files. On mini-MVPs, blank apps and short code snippets AI already excels.
Considering the rate at which we’re moving, it wouldn’t surprise me to see apps that do this well in a year.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
Raycast – Snippets, shortcuts, clipboard history, extensions, map keyboard shortcuts for anything… It’s also really clean. Alfred but better.
Todoist – A clean to-do list app.
Fireflies / Supernormal – To record and transcribe calls.
What are you bullish on?
I’m bullish on crypto. It’s easy to be bullish when prices are going up. Requires more conviction when things are going down.
I expect user adoption to keep increasing. A lot of necessary improvements are being worked on. Wallet security, improved UX and smart accounts are some of the most important areas being worked on right now.
True mass adoption might take 20+ years, but in the grand scheme of things that’s not long.
What are you bearish on?
Bearish on humans. AI taking all our jobs 😭
And bears. Always be bearish on bears.
Exclusive Deal: Elie is offering Trends.vc readers 25% off ShareMint. To claim, send the promo code TRENDS25 in the ShareMint support chat.
📘 Read This
“Power users” are the engaged customers that use your product the most. This framework helps you find, understand and keep them coming back.
🎧 Listen To
Growing a Podcast to 125M Views
Chris Williamson is a former club promoter who hosts Modern Wisdom.
He talks about building hype, doing interviews and growing fast by iterating quickly.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Jefferson Rumanyika, Meiko S. Patton and Radhakrishnan KG unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
🎙️ Uwe Dreissigacker was featured in Jameson Lyon‘s Create Connected podcast
🧳 Simon Daley wrote a blog post about digital nomads and launched OneShare
🚀 Matt Spear launched Peek on Product Hunt
⛵ Soma Mandal colored a boat that will be deployed in the Arctic
🌎 Maisha Cannon launched the Inclusive Sourcing Starter Kit
👨💻 Mehmet Gonullu was selected as creator in residence for 100DaysOfNoCode
👽 Darren Travel created a sci-fi short story with ChatGPT
📅 Maciej Cupial became a Stripe partner with Calendesk
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