This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🏷️ 8 SaaS pricing rules
🔌 SDKs vs direct API calls
💰 Why does “enough” keep changing?
📈 Lessons from $1k per day MRR growth
📝 A markdown workspace for humans and AI
➡️ And more…
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🤓 FAV FINDS
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
📈 How is Postiz Growing by $1k MRR per Day shared by Alper Tunga
Positioning and execution lessons behind the rapid growth of Postiz
📝 Classy shared by Ben Fisher
A shared markdown workspace for humans and AI
🔌 Why We Stopped Using SDKs shared by Gabriel
A post on how AI changes the tradeoffs between SDKs and direct API calls
🏆 TRENDS PRO MEMBER WINS
📿 Dru Riley published Why Mormons Get Rich and Adventists Live to 100, on borrowing history’s most-tested habits
🎙️ Elie Steinbock was featured in The Startup Ideas Podcast
💻 Eddie Forson wrote about switching back from Composer 2.5 to Opus 4.8
💹 Hitesh Kar built a S&P 500 vs Put/Call Ratio dashboard
🔧 TRY THIS
Why Is Tiered Pricing Your Friend in Both Self-Serve and Sales-Led SaaS?
Flat renewals quietly cap your growth. Bake expansion into the contract so revenue grows with the customer.
- Bake expansion into every contract: seats, API calls, storage or usage limits should make renewal growth automatic.
- Anchor high in enterprise conversations and negotiate down. Price only moves one direction in a deal, so start above your target and read the reaction.
- Match your pricing meter to what scales when customers grow. Ask what a huge customer uses more than a small one and charge on that so hitting a limit feels fair.
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❔ ASK YOURSELF
Why Can’t Billionaires Stop Wanting More?
Hitting your number rarely feels like enough. Each goal creates a new you with a new baseline. The finish line keeps moving unless you define it as a range instead of a single target.
- Define an enough zone, a range that holds ambition and contentment together, instead of chasing one number upward forever.
- Audit how much of your drive is real self-actualization and how much is borrowed from other people’s approval. The finish line you’re chasing may not be yours.
- Revisit your enough definition every time you hit a major goal. You become a different person with a new baseline, so the old target stops working.
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