This week’s Founder Finds includes:
💪 An LLM skills directory
🚫 Pitch-first development
🧠 How to make smart decisions
🚀 $150K/year from Reddit and SEO
⚙️ An in-depth guide to Claude Code
➡️ And more…
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Test your core assumptions with the smallest possible experiments first.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
⚙️ Claude Code Guide shared by JD Fiscus
A guide to building scalable Claude Code setups that work
🚀 $150K/Year with Reddit and SEO shared by Shivam
A repeatable early growth playbook for founders
💪 Skills.sh shared by Daniel Berggren
A directory of AI agent skills
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🧿 Dru Riley wrote Not Perfect, But Better, thoughts on product development
🛠️ Kieran Ball is hosting an AI builder conference in Brighton
📨 Elie Steinbock launched an email deliverability checker
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What Kills Your Product Before You Even Launch?
The thing that makes you great at your job will destroy your product business.
- Write your sales pitch, value proposition and marketing plan before writing code.
- See if people will pay with shares, buzz or email signups via a Coming Soon page.
- Use your best sales pitch as a detailed outline for your product once you’ve proven people want it.
🛠️ Tools of the Week
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- (📈 Pro) Best blogging platforms
- (📈 Pro) Building LLM chatbot apps
- (📈 Pro) Best prompt engineering courses
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How to Make Smart Decisions Without Getting “Lucky”?
Nobody teaches us how to make smart decisions, yet they shape everything from our careers to our relationships.
- Think broadly: apply knowledge from physics, math and history to everyday problems
- Position yourself well: a genius looks like an idiot when circumstances force poor decisions
- Use thinking frameworks: inversion (thinking backwards), second-order thinking (asking “and then what?”) and the map is not the territory
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