This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🧪 A SaaS case study
👩🏫 An AI teaching skill
🪙 A GitHub monetization tool
🧰 When to build your own SaaS
☀️ How to have a good day, everyday
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
Motivation is a feeling; discipline is a system.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🧰 Build vs. Buy shared by Kieran Ball
An article on when to build your own SaaS
👩🏫 Teaching Skill shared by Ben Fisher
A skill that lets your AI teach you anything
🪙 readme.cash shared by Elie Steinbock
A tool to monetize your readme on GitHub
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🦎 Dru Riley published How to Adapt to Change Fast Enough, on staying fit to a moving world
✅ Matt Spear made a WWDC session tracker
📺 Elie Steinbock reached 100,000 subscribers on YouTube
⚙️ Barun Pandey was featured in a Context.dev case study
📘 Read This
What Happens After 600 Days of Failure?
A solo dev spent 600 days shipping things nobody used.
Then built 1 boring scheduling tool the right way. It’s now on track to $100,000/year.
- Embed in the audience before you ship. WriteStack worked because the founders were already on Substack hearing creators complain about scheduling Notes.
- Build in public to compound trust. Sharing the messy progress on The Indiepreneur brought in bigger creators who tried the tool and recommended it.
- Stay long enough to iterate. Past products died after silent launches. WriteStack survived because the founders replied to every support ticket and shipped what users asked for.
🛠️ Tools of the Week
🎞️ Multi — Grow on YouTube on autopilot
🧿 HeadsUp.bot — Stay ahead of competitors
💵 StockDrifts — Visual stock research that builds conviction fast
👀 Watch This
Why Is Burnout Doing Too Little of What Fills You Up and Not Too Much?
Here’s a surprisingly simple daily system to have a good day:
- Do one thing for your mind. Read 5 pages, journal, learn a new language for 10 minutes, sketch something. Whatever genuinely engages your brain before the noise starts.
- Move your body in some way. It doesn’t need to be a gym session. A 2-mile walk, breath work or dancing around your apartment while getting ready counts.
- Feed your soul before the world gets your energy. Meditate, pray, spend time in nature or do a good deed.
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