This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🚀 How AI moats are built
✨ A UI & UX design library
💡 12 growth hacking strategies
💎 How to measure feature success
🎨 How to make a living as an artist
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
The quieter your mind, the clearer your purpose.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🚀 How AI Moats are Built shared by Eddie Forson
A podcast episode covering Anthropic’s rise, defensible AI moats and AI market dynamics
🎨 How to Make a Living as an Artist shared by Ben Fisher
An essay on staying true to your art while paying the bills
✨ Mobbin shared by Alper Tunga
A library of UI & UX design examples
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🧿 Dru Riley added the ability to add people to your HeadsUp dashboard
🤖 Jd Fiscus received a testimonial about his AI consulting work
🖥️ Yuyu built a screen size checker
🌱 Jason A Erickson launched a lawn bid calculator
✨ Knight built a personal bio site
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How Did Airbnb and Dropbox Get Massive Growth With Creative Marketing Strategies?
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- Create scarcity: exclusivity drives demand better than advertising
- Hack existing platforms: borrow audiences instead of building them
- Build virality into your core experience: make your product work better with more users
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How to Know If Your Product Delivers Value?
Here’s how to measure the real impact of your features:
- Map specific behaviors to actual user outcomes and test if changing behavior actually changes outcomes
- Measure five success metrics that matter: usage, usability, behavior change, user outcomes and business impact
- Ask “Is it working?” during prototype phase, not when customers are churning and you’re rebuilding instead of iterating
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