Trends.vc 2.0 — Discover new markets and ideas

👋 Hey Product Hunt! Dru here. Founder of Trends.vc. We help entrepreneurs discover new markets and ideas. We first launched as a newsletter. Over the past year, we've built an intimate community of 1,000+ curious entrepreneurs. With daily standups, weekly meetups and masterminds. And yep! We still have free and Pro reports on No-Code, Micro-SaaS, NFTs and much more... It's been a wild ride. We thrived thanks to incredible people like Stewart Townsend who leads our Trends Tribe meetups, Yolanda Stephens who runs Trends Masterminds, Alex Llull who spreads the word on social, Wit Sumathavanit who builds systems to scale standups, Ashwin Gurbuxani on operations, Elom Ayeboua on design, Hiten Shah who's a great mentor and launched us on PH (twice!) along with 1,000+ Trends Pro Members and 40,000+ subscribers. Whether you're a free subscriber, Trends Pro Member or just finding out about Trends.vc... Would love to hear from you? 😃 -Dru

@dru_riley Congratulations on the launch! I've seen you growing right in front of my eyes and your journey is so inspiring. I love your newsletters :) Wanted to know if you have or are thinking of a Slack or Discord server for active participation and networking by the community members? Would love to join!

Excited to be able to upvote and support this outstanding resource and community. I’m a proud pro subscriber.

Super proud and inspired to see Trends growing from a newsletter to where it is right now! The amount of value Trends reports deliever is immeasurable. Congratulations Dru and the whole team 👏🏼 More power to you 🚀

Well, if this isn't the goldmine of knowledge, IDK what it really means. So pumped to go through this internet wisdom. Kudos to all the makers❤

Hey! Good work on this folks! Looked super exciting to join, but what's up with that pricing? Without even getting any value first you are requesting a lot of money. Just some friendly feedback here, freemium would be better. At least for me. Keep up the great work

It's amazing what you're doing with Trends.vc @dru_riley! Getting to know you personally and the rest of the members has made me a better thinker and person on multiple levels. Keep going please!

Absolutely love being part of the Trends Pro community. It's an investment that has paid for itself many times over. Great people. Great insights. Love all the conversations with really smart & kind people.

At the end of the day, Trends reports are a cheat sheet for anyone interested in exploring markets that Trends has covered. Trends community is a collection of forward thinkers building consistency habits that help build their projects, businesses, skills (daily standup) and help build confidence partly purely from knowing that they are not in the fight alone as well as wide network of members(trends tribe & masterminds & hives). @dru_riley and the team are very responsive and constantly gauging where the interests and strengths of the community lie and craft that into the reports. So you are certain that the insights are not just from a desktop review, but fueled with the stories and experiences of industry experts and the people walking the path that make up the community (filled with juggernauts figuring it out on all scales from enterprise to entrepreneur to explorer). Frankly, there's too much there to fully make use of everything (straight talk). So its ok to just geek out deep on the topics you care about, and connect with others while you build your standup routine. I've also found that it is a very safe environment to think aloud and get feedback on those seed thoughts and considerations that we all face as we work on our next big thing. And as someone particularly focused on the study of ideas...Trends is significant for me. NPS 💯

Dru’s newsletter is one of the few I both pay for and open as soon as it hits my inbox. Not only that but he’s curated an awesome community of founders and he has been incredibly generous with his insight and mentorship. 🙏 Happy annual Trends Pro subscriber going into my second year 🙌

Matchmaking as a trend in recent years, for: - dating - services and clients—work or advice - founders and advisors/investors Shows that inspite of our outreach tech, social media, emails—finding the right person is so important. Also shows that people make products, not idea or tech or funds

So great to see @dru_riley launch a better version of something that was great from the start. It's amazing how one idea like Trends.vc can help tens of thousands of people become better versions of themselves - starting businesses and building the freedom we each crave. If you're a founder with an idea, you owe it to the thousands and millions of people that need your idea to exist. I'm glad this one does. Congrats Dru. TMC.

I love these newsletters, great info and a fun style to them. Been a fan since the last launch, glad to see this up again!

I've been a pro member for quite a while. This community: - Has saved me time re: research - As an Angel investor, exposed me to subject matter experts and deal flow. - Provided a tight community of professionals globally who participate in interactive stand-ups as well as focused, weekly mastermind sessions. There is no finer community out there and @dru_riley has provided both a textbook way to do it right in the form of a shining example of exceptional high signal to noise. This is worth every penny. Highly recommended.

Congratulations, this looks great - I struggle to zoom out and see this kind of thing for myself - I've signed up 😀

I've been a trends pro member for a while and read every report. This is probably the best bang for your buck out there! The ideas and insights from Dru's thoroughly researched reports are a gold mine waiting to be mined. I am particular eager to read the opportunities section because that's where I get a bunch of ideas. One of Dru's insights on multiple product tiers (I sell digital products) has resulted in several thousands of dollars in sales, so yeah.. I think it's worth it!

Love the reports and the love the community. A really welcoming, thoughtful and helpful group and Dru is a great host. The reports are great, easy to read, informative, peppered with insights from industry leaders and varied in subjects that keep let me go deep on my interests and stay informed about the things happening outside of them.

You guys deserve all the upvotes! I learned about productized services and no-code ecosystem because your newsletter. All the best!

Congratulations Dru! I'm a (free) user of your newsletter and I get a ton of value from it. I was hoping that you would provide a special promotion or discount with the launch. Hope you consider it!

Congrats on the PH Launch! I've been following tends.vc almost since the beginning, and it's been awesome, keep up the great work!