This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🎯 Why can’t you focus?
⚙️ PostHog’s operating handbook
🏃♀️ An app for sharing your workouts
💬 A deep dive into prompt engineering
💻 A compounding AI coding framework
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
💻 Compounding Engineering shared by Ben Fisher
How to build an AI development system that learns from all mistakes
💬 The Prompt Report shared by Devon Artis
An in-depth survey of prompt engineering methods
🏃♀️ Share Aura shared by Paul Metcalfe
An iPhone app to share your workouts on social media
🧿 HeadsUp of the Week
Building a SaaS? Steal this brilliant onboarding tactic.
What Glean Did: Built a library of templates based on real customer workflows. Just pick a template, customize and launch.
Steal This Tactic: Don’t make users start from scratch. Build templates for the most common use cases.
Spotted by HeadsUp competitor monitoring from Trends.vc
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🧿 Dru Riley added a way to track multiple markets in HeadsUp
🌐 Elie Steinbock made a video on Browser MCP
📖 Maciej Cupial made ChatGPT for Kindle
🎙️ Andrew Gazdecki was featured in the Fintech Mavericks Podcast
👥 Tharindu Madhusanka unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
👀 Watch This
Here’s how media consumption is destroying your ability to focus:
- Reading builds focus, screens kill it: Unlike books that train deep thinking, TV and internet push bite-sized content. Shifting from hour-long debates to 8-minute clips shows how attention spans shrink.
- The internet is designed against you: Platforms use psychology and design to steal attention. Even creators who built them (like Jobs and Zuckerberg) limit their kids’ screen time.
- You can rewire your brain: Take phone breaks, watch movies without scrolling and practice undistracted walks. Your brain can adapt – make it learn to focus again.
🐦 Tweet of the Week
🛠️ Tools of the Week
💲 Reply.io — Automate sales outreach
🎞️ Zubtitle — Edit social media videos fast
📊 Julius AI — Analyze your data with computational AI
💬 Join the Conversation
Here’s what Trends Pro Members are talking about…
- (📈 Pro) Best blogging platforms
- (📈 Pro) Building LLM chatbot apps
- (📈 Pro) Best prompt engineering courses
📘 Read This
How Do Successful Companies Operate?
PostHog is a product analytics tool that we use at Trends.vc to split test copy, track conversions and more.
In this handbook, PostHog shares how they work.
From how they get users and make them happy, to how they make money and decide what to build.
This handbook will help you get a sneak peek into how successful companies operate.
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