This week’s Founder Finds includes:
⚙️ The next AI moat
🪄 A desktop app builder
📋 An agent behavior framework
💰 The growth playbook of Base44
➡️ And more…
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Change is scary, but so is staying the same.
🤓 FAV FINDS
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
📋 Agent Behavior shared by Kevin Galang
A framework for reusable behavior specs for AI agents
⚙️ The Next AI Moat shared by Breno Ferreira
An essay on the future of physical AI
🪄 Glaze shared by Shivam
A tool to build personalized Mac apps without coding
🏆 TRENDS PRO MEMBER WINS
🪡 Dru Riley published Optimizing Your Life Is Killing Your Progress, on why one habit moves them all
📰 Eddie Forson built Ghana News AI
🏫 Yuyu made a school holiday directory
📨 Elie Steinbock built a lightweight Superhuman alternative
🔮 PREDICTION OF THE WEEK
AI-made shows will cross half of new releases on China’s short-drama platforms.
The machines are winning the volume game, and volume is the business model.
AI titles were 7% of China’s top-100 chart a year ago and hit 38% this January. Platforms shipped more than 14,600 AI dramas in a single month, at $7,000 to $14,000 per title.
From Trends PRO #0171: Short Drama Apps. Every call since 2020 lives in the full library.
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How Did a Solo Founder Reach an $80M Exit in 6 Months?
Steal this growth playbook that took Base44 from 3 friends to 400,000 users without spending any money on marketing.
- Split backend and front-end tooling by layer. Use one stack for server code and another for UI generation so agents don’t conflict in the same files.
- Structure your repo so AI agents can own the front-end layer. This helps different tools move fast without stepping on each other.
- Share the build in public on LinkedIn and X. Base44 grew to 400,000 users mostly through word of mouth.
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🎞️ Multi — Grow on YouTube on autopilot
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💵 StockDrifts — Visual stock research that builds conviction fast
☁️ OPPORTUNITY OF THE WEEK
Rent out idle Mac racks as a blind-AI compute fleet.
1. Aggregate the hardware that already sits idle: roughly 110 to 130 million Apple Silicon Macs have shipped since 2020. Agency and school racks sit unused 16-plus hours a day.
2. Handle onboarding, uptime and payouts for a management cut. A solo owner earns around $6 a month per machine, which is exactly why a managed fleet beats going it alone.
3. Sell the capacity into blind inference, where trusted-hardware Macs run models the operator can’t read.
The is fromTrends Pro #0170: Blind AI. More opportunities in the archive.
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What Unsolicited Advice Do You Wish You Got Sooner?
Everything you do is based on the choices you make.
Here’s some unsolicited advice that will make your life better:
- Have uncomfortable conversations.
- Make rules for yourself instead of relying on willpower.
- Keep your possessions few and only buy things you love.
- Lift weights to improve your muscles, tendons and bones.
- Don’t do dumb things that will ruin the trust you have spent years building.
📈 REPORT FLASHBACK
No-code, called before “vibe coding” had a name.
In March 2020 we said makers without CS degrees would soon build real software, with drag-and-drop as the gateway.
The makers arrived; the mechanism flipped.
They build by typing plain English: Andrej Karpathy coined “vibe coding” in February 2025, Collins made it Word of the Year and Cursor, Lovable and Replit rode the wave to multibillion-dollar valuations.
The “No-Code Developer” job title never showed up. The people it described are everywhere.
That was Report #0006. Six years of calls in one library: access.trends.vc.
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