This week’s Founder Finds includes:
📉 AppSumo’s struggles
🐙 A multi-agent AI team
💪 An agent skill directory
📣 Features vs. marketing
😬 A micro-SaaS reality check
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
Tame fear by approaching it.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🐙 From One Clawdbot to Ten shared by Kieran Ball
Building a coordinated multi-agent system with shared memory
💪 Awesome Claude Skills shared by Alper Tunga
A collection of agent skills by leading development teams
📉 AppSumo Revenue is Down 50% shared by Ben Fisher
A blog post on how AI disrupted AppSumo’s business model
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🧿 Dru Riley published “Start Laughably Small”, on (habit) and product development
🔍 Alexandre Kantjas is hosting a workshop on AI knowledge retrieval
🔒 Elie Steinbock wrote about OpenClaw security risks
🎙️ Kieran Ball made a podcast episode about OpenClaw
📘 Read This
How Many Years Does It Really Take for a Micro-SaaS to Pay You?
Here is how to move from a hobby project to a profitable business:
- Build a marketing plan; word-of-mouth virality is rare.
- Talk to churned users to find and fix adoption blockers.
- Study competitors’ weaknesses instead of assuming you are unique.
🛠️ Tools of the Week
🎞️ Gling.ai — Let AI edit your videos
📝 Fireflies.ai — Automate meeting notes
🖼️ Aragon AI — Use AI to do a photo shoot
🎧 Listen To
Why Are Your New Features Not Bringing In Customers?
Revenue increases from marketing, not from new features.
- Watch what customers do, not what they say they’ll do.
- Focus on marketing to people who don’t care about that missing feature.
- Manage expectations through positioning and copy instead of changing the product.
🔧 Try This
60 Seconds to Your First Competitive Insight
HeadsUp is an AI-powered competitive intelligence platform that watches your market 24/7.
It doesn’t just tell you what changed… It tells you what to do about it.
🏆 #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt
Get 90 days of competitor intelligence in 60 seconds with HeadsUp:
- See what you’ve been missing (pricing, features, positioning)
- Know what to do about it, not just what happened
- Get weekly briefs summarizing what matters
See what you’ve been missing 👉 Try HeadsUp free
🍢 Trends Tribe
1-on-1 live meetups for Trends Pro Members.
- Make real connections
- Solve problems faster
- Help each other grow
Next meetup: February 16
The Most Popular Link From Last Week:
🩺 Heal My Prompt
Get Weekly Reports
Join 54,000+ founders and investors
📈 Unlock Pro Reports, 1:1 Intros and Masterminds
Become a Trends Pro Member and join 1,200+ founders enjoying…
🧠 Founder Mastermind Groups • To share goals, progress and solve problems together, each group is made up of 6 members who meet for 1 hour each Monday.
📈 100+ Trends Pro Reports • To make sense of new markets, ideas and business models, check out our research reports.
💬 1:1 Founder Intros • Make new friends, share lessons and find ways to help each other. Keep life interesting by meeting new founders each week.
🧍 Daily Standups • Stay productive and accountable with daily, async standups. Unlock access to 1:1 chats, masterminds and more by building standup streaks.
💲 100k+ Startup Discounts • Get access to $100k+ in startup discounts on AWS, Twilio, Webflow, ClickUp and more.
Brought to you by the team behind HeadsUp
