👋 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

I really like the reports. Blinkist for market research.

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.

Trends just changed my pro life. And Dru is such a great global community builder. Eternal fan.

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!

Starting with the newsletter then reports which are researched like a PhD thesis, Dru has built a community that engages, supports each other and is willing to share knowledge freely. Where else would you get a community that tries to send chicken soup from Canada when you are sick.

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

Trends.vc has helped immensely on my creator journey. Amazing reports on Digital Products, Paid Communities, Consulting... Far more insights than I've ever needed! It helped me so much that I've become a small part of the project too. Excited to see where @dru_riley takes Trends in the future!

Huge fan of Trends and the community, Dru is creating something special on the internet. I've been a happy pro subscriber for some time now.

Trends.vc is the town-square for entrepreneurs. Come for the research, stay for the community!!

I'm an "active user" of the product. No brainer.

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!

It’s pleasure to get these updates from Dru! Keep going 💪🏼

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.

Would love to join the community! Keep it up

Congrats on the launch (second:)! 🎉 you’ve built an amazing community

Trends.vc has an awesome community and constantly keeps getting better. Dru has taken his time to thoughtfully think about how to how his community and members reach their goal and learn new insights. Excited to see what Trends.vc 2.0 will continue to do.

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 💯

Trends is great place to hang out on a daily basis. I spend so much time just reading all the updates by other amazing people in the community. Dru has build a community where people feel safe to share their journey with others. He is one of the most authentic and thoughtful person I have met. If you want to build a writing habit, get deep insights into emerging markets and interact with creators building cool things, Trends is the place to be!

One of the few newsletters I read as soon as it hits 🤩