This week’s Founder Finds includes:
💬 Testing the boundaries of LLMs
🛡️ A checklist for secure vibe coding
🚀 A collection of social growth tactics
⚡ The importance of strategic simplicity
🚪 How to optimize your onboarding flow
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
You become what you give your attention to.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🚀 Social Growth Engineers shared by Hitesh Kar
A collection of social growth strategies and insights
🛡️ Security for Vibe Coders shared by Devon Artis
A checklist to secure your vibe coded apps
💬 SpeechMap.AI shared by Elia Zane
A project exploring how LLMs respond to controversial prompts
📈 Breakout Market of the Week
Testimonial Apps help businesses easily collect and showcase customer feedback to build trust and credibility.
This market is growing fast: +52.6% in the last year – with a Breakout Score of 50. About 2,900 people search for these tools each month.
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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
⏱️ Joel Pickin launched The 12-Hour Billboard
💾 Ash vibe coded Flappy Floppy Disk
🥇 Elie Steinbock was featured as #1 Repository of the Day by Trendshift
💡 Eddie Forson is hosting an AI meetup in London
👨💻 Sam McKay is starting regular vibe coding livestreams
🐦 Tweet of the Week
🛠️ Tools of the Week
🎞️ Gling.ai — Let AI edit your videos
⏱️ Rize — Maximize your productivity with AI
📊 Julius AI — Analyze your data with computational AI
📘 Read This
Why is Building a Simpler Product a Competitive Advantage?
Simplicity in products isn’t just nice to have – it’s often the key to massive success.
Especially now, when life feels overwhelming:
- Narrow down to the core value: WhatsApp focused first on just delivering messages and calls reliably, Instagram only had photo sharing
- Make tough cuts, not easy ones: real prioritization means cutting good features that you want, keeping only what makes your product essential
- Build trust through consistency: when users know exactly what your product does, they don’t get lost or confused when you add new features later
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Here’s what Trends Pro Members are talking about…
- (📈 Pro) Best blogging platforms
- (📈 Pro) Building LLM chatbot apps
- (📈 Pro) Best prompt engineering courses
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What Makes Users Abandon Your App In The First 60 Seconds?
Your product’s first moments determine whether users stay or join the 80% who abandon apps after one session:
- Define different user types and personalize the onboarding experience for each – power users, casual users and skeptical users all need different paths to success.
- Work backward from what success looks like for each user type and design the simplest path to get them to their first “win.”
- Create emotional engagement through micro-rewards, progress indicators and subtle animations that give users dopamine hits as they move through your onboarding flow.
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