This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🔀 A parallel coding tool
⚠️ 7 SaaS growth plateaus
🍀 Is success luck or hard work?
👨💻 Solving hard problems with AI
💬 A prompting guide for Opus 4.5
➡️ And more…
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🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
👨💻 No Vibes Allowed shared by Jd Fiscus
A talk on effectively using AI for complex coding tasks
💬 Claude Opus 4.5 Prompting Guide shared by Ben Fisher
Tips for getting the best results with Opus 4.5
🔀 Vibe Kanban shared by Elia Zane
A tool to run multiple AI coding agents in parallel
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🧿 Dru Riley launched a free competitor finder tool in HeadsUp
📺 Alexandre Kantjas reached 40,000 subscribers on YouTube
💼 Jd Fiscus made a video on vibe coding for senior leadership
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What’s the Brutal Math Behind Why Most SaaS Companies Hit Revenue Ceilings?
Rob Walling analyzed 192 SaaS companies and found that 90% of founders never escape growth plateaus.
Here’s how the 10% breaks free:
- Calculate your ceiling: New MRR ÷ Churn Rate = your maximum possible revenue
- Fix your fundamentals before scaling. It’s usually leaky funnels or high churn.
- Focus on your ideal customer profile. Sometimes growth means saying no to bad-fit customers who churn fast.
🛠️ Tools of the Week
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Egocentric bias occurs when you think that you do most of the work.
This can make you think that when others succeed, it’s either better skill or luck.
The thing is that you remember vividly what you do and not what others do.
You overestimate your work and underestimate others’.
In reality, you often need both skill and luck to succeed.
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