This week’s Founder Finds includes:
📣 A social media API
✍️ 7 neuro-writing tricks
🦾 Agentic engineering tips
🪙 Reducing token costs by 90%
💭 Thinking skills for Claude Code
➡️ And more…
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🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🦾 Agentic Engineering Hacks shared by Eddie Forson
A post on current best practices for AI coding
💭 Claude Code Thinking Skills shared by Alper Tunga
39 mental models and critical-thinking frameworks for Claude Code
📣 Publora shared by Elia Zane
An AI powered social media management and automation tool
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🧶 Dru Riley published Analysis Paralysis Is a Bundling Problem, on getting both by doing one
📰 Eddie Forson launched the AI for Decision Makers newsletter
💼 Paul Martin recorded a podcast on AI agents hiring humans
🪮 Shivam launched an AI hairstyle generator with 12 hairstyles
⚽ Elie Steinbock launched a World Cup draft simulator
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What 5-Minute Fix Drops Your Token Costs by 90%?
AI-native SaaS runs at 50–65% gross margins while traditional SaaS sits at 75–85%
Here’s how to close this gap to take home more:
- Audit your inference logs per customer and per feature. The top 10% of users usually generate 50% to 70% of your cost and you can’t optimize what you don’t measure.
- Route Tier-3 tasks (classification, extraction, routing) to Haiku-class models instead of frontier ones. Many teams are paying Opus prices for Haiku work.
- Turn on provider-side prompt caching in an afternoon. It can cut cached-token costs by 90% and is the fastest win available.
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What Are the 7 Neuro-Writing Tricks That Make Content Impossible to Ignore?
Do you feel energized, enjoy working or studying at night? Neuro-writing is crafting content that works with how the brain actually processes words.
These 7 techniques explain why some content sticks and the rest disappears.
- Trigger FOMO with negative language. Words like “ban,” “crash,” “never,” and “fail” create discomfort that motivates action. Fear of looking wrong or missing out is more powerful than the promise of gain.
- Put 2 numbers in your headlines. The first pulls readers in. The second answers “why should I care?” Odd numbers provoke curiosity (“why 11,093 people?”) while even numbers feel friendlier.
- Write sensory words. The brain processes sensory language as scenes. “Grip,” “reel in,” “pack a punch” activate the somatosensory cortex and make readers feel like they’re in your story.
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