This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🤖 An AI reading list
💪 How to be antifragile
🔍 An AI-based search engine
✅ Key signs of product-market fit
🎞️ A faceless short-form video tool
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🤖 The 2025 AI Engineer Reading List shared by Devon Artis
A practical reading list for people starting to work in AI
🎞️ ossa.ai shared by Shushant Lakhyani
A tool to make faceless short-form videos
🔍 Beating Google at Search shared by Eddie Forson
A podcast episode on building an AI-based search engine
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
📅 Jason A Erickson launched 1yr.net
🐎 Hitesh Kar launched Horsy on Product Hunt
📨 Elie Steinbock reached 10,000 sign-ups for InboxZero
🎨 Yuyu launched CMYK to Pantone Converter on Product Hunt
🥇 Ash made a collection of ‘Best of’ lists for 2024
🐦 Tweet of the Week
🛠️ Tools of the Week
🎨 Relume — Use AI for web design
🧰 Apify — Build web scrapers fast
🎬 Zebracat — Create marketing videos with AI
❔ Ask Yourself
How to Know If You’ve Got Product-Market Fit?
Here are the key signs of true product-market fit:
- Watch user behavior: Look for visible excitement (“Where have you been all my life?”), strong retention curves and users who keep coming back even when your product is broken.
- Measure real commitment: Get people to pay before launch, survey if they’d be “very disappointed” without your product (aim for >40%) and watch for organic growth from word of mouth.
- Check growth efficiency: Your sales should be efficient (costs less to acquire users than they’re worth) and organic (>50% of new users come directly). If you’re pushing too hard to grow, you haven’t found fit.
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Here’s what Trends Pro Members are talking about…
- (📈 Pro) Building LLM chatbot apps
- (📈 Pro) Best prompt engineering courses
- (📈 Pro) AI to process large amounts of data?
👀 Watch This
How to Build Toughness Under Pressure?
True happiness means accepting both good and bad emotions, not trying to be happy all the time:
- When stress hits, focus on recovery – take real breaks from work.
- Build quality relationships – they’re the top factor in both happiness and bouncing back from hard times.
- Become antifragile – like muscles grow bigger the more you stress them, learn to thrive under pressure.
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