This week’s Founder Finds includes:
📎 A Paperclip guide
📐 UX best practices
🔌 A local API emulator
📱 The science behind brain rot
🏭 Stripe’s end-to-end coding agents
➡️ And more…
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Saying “no” is how a strategy stays a strategy.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
📎 Paperclip Walkthrough shared by Hitesh
A video on setting up Paperclip to run a team of agents
🔌 emulate.dev shared by Elie Steinbock
An API emulation tool for CI and no-network sandboxes
🏭 Minions shared by Farid
A blog series on Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
⌨️ Elie Steinbock made a YouTube video comparing Conductor, Superset and cmux
✨ Dru Riley launched Charm, to help you get customers on autopilot
💰 Mike Williams wrote a fundraising guide for marketplaces
📅 Maciej Cupial made an MCP server for Calendesk
📔 Dru Riley published “The Ideacide Playbook”
👀 Watch This
What Happens To Your Brain After Just 10 Minutes On TikTok?
Researchers gave people a cognitive test, sent them to scroll TikTok for 10 minutes, then tested them again. One specific thing got worse, but only for one group.
Here’s what the science shows:
- After scrolling short videos, people forgot tasks they intended to do, but X scrolling didn’t cause the same drop.
- Watching is better than swiping. Scrolling TikTok makes you worse at analytical thinking, but watching the same videos stitched has no effect.
- TikTok is addictive by design. Employees admitted in leaked documents that TikTok’s is successful due to strong algorithms, which limit user agency.
🛠️ Tools of the Week
🎞️ Multi — Grow on YouTube on autopilot
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✨ Charm — Get customers through Google and AI Search
❔ Ask Yourself
How Do People Actually Interact With Your Product?
A collection of best practices that explain the psychology behind effective user interface design.
- Low cognitive load: lower the mental effort to understand and interact with your interface
- Peak-End Rule: people judge an experience based on how they felt at its peak and at its end
- Aesthetic usability: users think a beautiful design is more usable, even if the functionality is the same
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