This week’s Founder Finds includes:
📱 An AI UGC workflow
👨💻 An agent multiplexer
🤖 Bootstrapping in the AI age
📚 Environment design for habits
🎞️ An open-source Loom alternative
➡️ And more…
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🤓 FAV FINDS
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
👨💻 Herdr shared by Elie Steinbock
Manage multiple AI agents from a single terminal
📱 UGC Video Workflow shared by Alper Tunga
A playbook for creating low-cost AI videos that drive organic growth
🎞️ Agent-Native Clips shared by Eddie Forson
An open-source alternative to Loom
🏆 TRENDS PRO MEMBER WINS
🪜 Dru Riley published You’re Not Lazy. The Step Is Too Steep, on the cost of vague to-dos
🦾 Eddie Forson is hosting an applied AI course
💬 Elie Steinbock launched Jessie
🎬 Nathan Sudds launched Activelabs Studio, done-for-you video for founders. Send your app, get a video that sells.
🔧 TRY THIS
What 1-Minute Fix Helps People Finish 50 Books a Year?
People who exercise consistently don’t have superhuman discipline. They have gym clothes by the door.
- Build friction in both directions. Make the good habit one step shorter. Make the bad one two steps longer.
- Make good behavior the default. Book on your pillow, water bottle on your desk, workout clothes by the door.
- Start with one change. People who optimize everything in a weekend abandon all of it by Wednesday.
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💵 StockDrifts — Visual stock research that builds conviction fast
🎧 LISTEN TO
Why Does Jason Cohen Say “AI Doesn’t Really Work” and Where’s the Opportunity in That?
Jason Cohen built WP Engine and SmartBear into unicorns by doing the things VCs hate. His take on building in the AI age is the opposite of what most pitch decks say.
- Niche down so hard your ideal customer converts on the homepage.
- Build for experts. They can fix what the AI gets wrong and AI gets it wrong at least 50% of the time.
- Offer a 3x to 10x improvement. At WP Engine they shipped sites 4x faster and turned a commodity (hosting) into a billion-dollar brand.
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