This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🤖 An LLM market report
✂️ The power of simplicity
💭 What is process visualization
🚀 AI tactics for SaaS businesses
🐒 An AI Chrome extension builder
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
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🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🚀 9 AI Tactics from Top SaaS Founders shared by Hitesh Kar
A video on data-driven AI tactics to win in B2B SaaS today
🤖 2025 Mid-Year LLM Market Update shared by Eddie Forson
A report on the state of enterprise AI
🐒 Robomonkey shared by Elie Steinbock
An AI tool to build Chrome extensions
🧿 Tactic of the Week
Every technical company should steal this move.
What AWS Did: Added a “Get the gist” AI bot that explains technical jargon in plain English.
Steal This Tactic: If you’re building a technical product, add an AI-powered explanation tool to reduce user confusion.
Spotted by HeadsUp competitor monitoring from Trends.vc
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🧿 Dru Riley reached 57 weekly active users for a competitor intelligence agent
💼 Jero Esguerra launched a remote marketing job board
✨ Sam McKay launched Content Lead
🎞️ Wojtek Wozniak reached 1,000 free users for gFLUO
📺 Elie Steinbock reached 8,000 YouTube subscribers
🔧 Try This
How Can Process Visualization Transform Your Daily Productivity?
Most people visualize the end result, but that creates fantasy thinking. The real power is imagining the work itself:
- Imagine enjoying the tasks instead of dreaming about completing them
- Notice what you don’t like when actually doing the work, then adjust your mental practice
- Picture the process. Think about where you’ll work, when you’ll start and how you’ll feel doing it
🐦 Tweet of the Week
🛠️ Tools of the Week
💲 Reply.io — Automate sales outreach
🎞️ Zubtitle — Edit social media videos fast
📊 Beam Analytics — Get more insight into your web traffic
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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
📘 Read This
Why Are You Choosing Complexity Instead of Simplicity?
We love complexity because it feels smart. But the best thinkers know that simplicity wins.
- Look for simple solutions that others miss while chasing fancy approaches
- Use three buckets: in, out, and too hard—move fast past what doesn’t fit
- Learn what to ignore because filtering beats processing everything
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