This week’s Founder Finds includes:
💧 AI agent monitoring
🎨 A design prompt library
💸 Hermes + DeepSeek V4
😵 An indie founder reality check
🚀 Agile principles for life planning
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
Action is the foundational key to all success.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
💸 Making Hermes 100X Cheaper shared by Hitesh Kar
A video on integrating Hermes with DeepSeek V4
💧 Raindrop shared by Stew Fortier
A monitoring platform for AI agents
🎨 Design Prompt Library shared by Elie Steinbock
Curated prompts for beautiful landing page design
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
♟️ Dru Riley published 5 Things Chess Teaches Us About Life, on freedom and obligations
💬 Mike Williams published a prompt library for marketplaces
😴 Wojtek Wozniak shipped LazyOS
💻 Eddie Forson wrote about AI adoption
📘 Read This
How Did a Google Engineer Burn $538K on a $147/Month Product?
A Google engineer quit his $220,000 job, burned through his savings and ended up with $147 MRR.
Here’s the mistakes he made:
- Skipped the most important step. Talked to 0 customers before building.
- Priced like a hobby. $29/month signaled “not serious software”. He couldn’t raise prices with only 3 customers.
- Learned the one thing X never shows. For every “I hit $10K MRR in 3 months” post, there are 1,000 people making $0 and staying quiet.
🛠️ Tools of the Week
🎞️ Multi — Grow on YouTube on autopilot
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✨ Charm — Get customers through Google and AI Search
💵 StockDrifts — Visual stock research that builds conviction fast
✍️ Biography of the Week
Lee Kuan Yew: Engineered Sovereignty
Lee Kuan Yew built one of the most efficient states in modern history.
He also kept his party in power for fifty-six years through defamation lawsuits, detention without trial and a salary scale designed to make political loyalty pay.
You’ll see how a Cambridge-trained lawyer turned a 581-square-kilometer island into the model the rest of the Asian Tigers studied.
Listen to the episode (22 min) →
❔ Ask Yourself
Why Should You Plan Your Life Like a Software Product?
Natalia spent 3 years treating her life like a software product and found a system that actually works:
- Design “MVP habits”. Instead of “1 hour at the gym or nothing,” your minimum viable habit is the version you can do on your worst day. 5 minutes of stretching in pajamas counts.
- Use the 70% buffer rule. Plan for only 70% of your capacity. The other 30% absorbs fatigue and unexpected calls.
- Run retrospectives every 2 weeks to find the system error. “I keep eating sweets late at night” is a bug to fix.
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