This week’s Founder Finds includes:
♠️ Leveraging uncertainty
🏆 How to own your niche
🤖 Claude Code guidelines
🚀 A startup growth playbook
📄 A spec-driven coding agent
➡️ And more…
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🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
📄 Remy shared by Rose
An AI coding agent using a spec-driven approach
🚀 $1M ARR in 4 Months with No Paid Ads shared by Elie Steinbock
A podcast on building momentum fast without relying on ads
🤖 Karpathy-Inspired Claude Code Guidelines shared by Hitesh Kar
A claude.md file to reduce errors and overengineering
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🏎️ Dru Riley published Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math, on the power of removal
💡 Jason A Erickson launched Idea Baby Daycare
💻 Elie Steinbock made a video on shipping reliable AI code faster
🧩 Knight launched a markdown converter Chrome extension
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What Is a Personal Monopoly and How Do You Build One?
You want to be the only person who does what you do.
Here’s how it works:
- Pick a niche that fascinates you. The internet rewards people who go deep.
- Think like an investor. Learn everything before the crowd shows up and stake your claim early.
- Your Personal Monopoly lives at the intersection of your skills, interests and personality. The weirder the combination, the less competition.
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💵 StockDrifts — Visual stock research that builds conviction fast
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What Did a World Series Poker Champion Learn About the Danger of Being Too Sure?
Former World Series poker champion Annie Duke says that uncertainty is great for making good decisions.
- Stop confusing confidence with certainty. You can be confident in your approach while still holding your beliefs loosely.
- Uncertainty is more accurate than certainty. Too many things can go wrong for anyone to know exactly how the future turns out.
- Use uncertainty to invite collaboration. When you admit you don’t know everything, other people are more likely to share what they know. That’s where better decisions come from.
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