This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🤖 An AI developer toolkit
💰 A $12,000/mo micro-SaaS
🏷️ Black Friday pricing tactics
⚙️ Automating business growth
👩🏫 Why smart people are bad teachers
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
💰 $12,000/mo Micro-SaaS shared by Elie Steinbock
The story of how a founder grew a micro-SaaS to $12,000/mo
🏷️ Why You Should Offer a Black Friday Discount shared by Katt Risen
Insights into Black Friday pricing of digital products
🤖 Sapling shared by Hitesh Kar
A toolkit to add AI-powered functionality to your apps
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
💯 Eddie Forson reached 100 subscribers on Substack
🔬 Simon reached 1,000 users on MicroAssets marketplace
🎓 Hj Barraza closed the first client for Astraed for Education
👨💻 Gunjan Titiya wrote about connecting AI with cloud services
🪦 Ash built a tombstone generator
🐦 Tweet of the Week
🛠️ Tools of the Week
🎠 aiCarousels — Create social media carousels fast
🎙️ Podsqueeze — Automate podcast content creation
🎞️ Gling.ai — Let AI edit your videos
🎧 Listen To
How to Automate Your Business Growth?
To boost growth, you need to solve the right problem for the people who know about it and are willing to solve it:
- Solve a painful problem. This sets a real business apart from a pet project.
- Build credibility. Your customers should trust you and your product. Otherwise, they won’t sign up.
- Build customer avatars. Your customers should be aware of the problem and are willing to solve it. You can’t build a great user acquisition strategy if you don’t know who you’re targeting.
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Here’s what Trends Pro Members are talking about…
- (📈 Pro) Building LLM chatbot apps
- (📈 Pro) Lower price or use as lead magnet?
- (📈 Pro) AI to process large amounts of data?
📘 Read This
Why Are Smart People Bad Teachers?
The curse of knowledge occurs when you know something so well that you forget what it’s like not to know it.
This makes it hard to explain things to others in a way they can understand.
Here’s how to deal with it:
- Know your audience: Ask your potential customers a few questions before starting your sales pitch.
- Simplify your language: Use simple language and clear examples to make your point.
- Show, don’t tell. A picture can be worth a thousand words.
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