This week’s Founder Finds includes:
✂️ How to avoid feature bloat
🤖 A context engineering guide
📈 Shutting down a $1.5M product
🎨 An AI UI and wireframe generator
🛠️ Should we say goodbye to startups?
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
Momentum is easier to maintain than to build.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🤖 Context Engineering Guide shared by Eddie Forson
Anthropic’s guide to effective context engineering for AI agents
🎨 UX Pilot shred by Alper Tunga
A tool to build UI designs and wireframes with AI
📈 Shutting Down a $1.5M Product shared by Elie Steinbock
How Fiscal.ai prioritized long-term vision over short-term revenue
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🧿 Dru Riley added an onboarding video to HeadsUp
💻 Jd Fiscus made a video on Claude Code custom status lines
🤝 Mike Williams is organizing an LA meetup on AI-powered marketplaces
🎨 Wojtek Wozniak is hosting a workshop on vibe coding websites with Relume
✔️ Sam McKay wrote about validating AI output
📘 Read This
Should We Say Goodbye to Startups?
Check out the three shifts reshaping tech business:
- Expect multi-product makers running 10+ tools for the same audience
- Use “influencer + maker” collaborations to get shared distribution and cross-promotion
- Make friends now as solo makers will struggle vs organized groups with combined audiences
🐦 Tweet of the Week
🛠️ Tools of the Week
💲 Reply.io — Automate sales outreach
🎞️ Zubtitle — Edit social media videos fast
📊 Julius AI — Analyze your data with computational AI
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What Will Happen If You Start Removing Features?
64% of features are rarely used and actively slow down both development and user experience.
Here’s what you can do to avoid feature bloat:
- Frame feature removal as improvement, not loss: Slack celebrated removal of Stories
- Analyze usage frequency, user impact, maintenance cost, strategic alignment and opportunity cost
- Recognize zombie features draining dev time, confusing users and stealing focus from what matters
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