🚀 Major Updates: Masterminds, Member Wins, Standups

February 10, 2022 marked our 2-year anniversary. We crossed 500 daily standups with 21,000+ member updates. Hey there, February 10, 2022 marked our 2-year anniversary. We've been quietly building. Here's a look at Q1 2022. And the future. 🎪 Q1 Highlights - We crossed 500 daily standups with 21,000+ member updates - Expanded our search for [Trends.vc Analysts]( - Launched [sponsorships]( 🏅 Trends Pro Member Wins Recent Trends Pro Member Wins  Shayla Price • PrimoStats Google Docs Plugin [Shayla]( released [PrimoStats for Google Docs](. To help content marketers search and add stats without leaving Google Docs. Holger Sindbaek • $10,000 Monthly Revenue [Holger]( reached $10,000 in monthly revenue with [Online Solitaire](. He shared his journey [here](. Maciej Cupial • $2,299 MRR for Calendesk [Maciej]( reached $2299 MRR with [Calendesk](. He's learning about the difficulties of dealing with users from paid channels. Compared to organic. And starting to focus on SEO. Check out his [March update](. Naya Moss • $70k to $127k [Naya]( shared her story of going from earning $70k/year to $127k/year in a [viral tweet](. She's the founder of [Frauvis](. A newsletter, community and job board for Black Womxn. Conor McCarthy • The First 10 Podcast [Conor]( landed [Daniel Vassallo]( as a guest on [The First 10](. They jammed on Daniel's "small wins" mentality. Listen to the episode [here](. Darshan Doshi • New Cohort-Based Course [Darshan]( launched first cohort-based course last year and another in Q1 2022. All of his students came organically. Get [more info here](. Jwalant Patel • 35,000 Signups for Shadowing.ai [Jwalant]( is building [Shadowing.ai](. Which helps you improve your interview skills and submit interviews to Fortune 500 companies and unicorns They reached 35,000 signups from 790+ universities. Jwalant also ran an AMA in the Trends Pro Community. He's a member of Mastermind #0004. Justin Jackson • 35,000 Views for Transistor.fm [Justin]( is aiming to rank for "how to start a podcast" with [Transistor.fm](. He made [this video](. [The video]( reached 1,000 views with organic efforts. With $2,000 spent on YouTube ads across 4 days, views went from 1,000 to 35,000. Ben Church • Cashflow.vc Validation [Ben]( is validating [Cashflow.vc](. With a list of 50 people, he landed 10 sales. The long-term vision is to build the Bloomberg terminal of the future. EK • 0 to 212 Followers [EK]( left his job in Dec 2021. Then grew his [Twitter account]( from 0 to 212 followers in 2 months. He's building [RubyOnRemote]( and [Appbasics]( in public. Katt Risen • Launching No-Code Guru [Katt]( launched [No-Code Guru]( to help you find the perfect no-code tool to build your idea. Without wasting time. She received 176 upvotes on Product Hunt, became a top 10 product of the day and got lots of feedback. Check out No-Code Guru [here](. Max Haining • No-Code Bootcamp [Max]( ran his first cohort for 25 students last year. 20 students built and launched their MVP in 6 weeks. He launched his 2nd cohort last quarter and rebranded as a bootcamp. The next one starts in May. You can sign up [here](. Héctor Reyes • Nomad Planner [Héctor]( has been nomading for 15+ months. He solved his own pain around planning his next stop by launching [Nomad Planner](. You can get it [here](. 🍢 Trends Tribe Members [Philip Obosi](, [Katt Risen](, [YaoMing](, [Vlad Kooklev](, [Maciej Cupial](, [Armen Karapetyan](, [Omari Harebin](, [Serg Valencia](, Marius Dogaru, [Jordan Divecha](, [Naya Moss](, [Paco](, Theo Ohene, [Sabyasachi Ruj](, [Fausto Sá Teles](, [Hillary Omitogun](, [James N](, [Hyunghwan Byun](, Himanshu Khanna, [Nikhil Kale]( and Pae Pongsiri were invited to Trends Tribe Meetups. 🏆 Hall of Fame Members [Maciej Cupial](, [Serg Valencia](, [Jordan Divecha](, [Naya Moss](, [Breno Ferreira](, [Jwalant Patel]( and [Evangeline]( became Hall of Fame Members. 🧠Mastermind Members [Fausto Sá Teles](, [James N](, [Jwalant Patel](, [Evageline](, [Shayla Price](, [Nico Cerdeira](, [Michael Pearson-Adams](, [Kevin Galang](, [Yuyu]( and [Matt Spear]( were invited to Trends.vc Masterminds. 👍 What's going well? 80+ Trends.vc Reports Our library grew to 80+ reports. See the latest topics: - [Building in Public]( - [Programmatic SEO]( - [Token-Gated Communities]( - [Influencer Marketing]( - [Monetized Open Source]( - [DAOs]( - [No-Code]( Trends.vc Analyst Applications We have received 70+ applications from people around the world. Sponsorships We have partnered with 9 companies so far. Thanks to [MicroConf](, [TinySeed](, [Mercury](, [Important, Not Important](, [Podcast Hawk](, [Proxycurl](, [intent](, [Mailman]( and [Alts](. Sponsorships are booked until June 2022. You can [apply to sponsor us here](. Masterminds #0001 - #0004 We have 4 mastermind groups with members in 10 countries building lifelong friendships and great products. New Trends Tribe Platform We moved our randomized 1:1 chats from [Gatheround]( to [Run The World](. New Referral Program We are testing a referral program with help from [SparkLoop](. 🛠What can we improve? Core Processes We need to improve our core processes around running split tests, publishing reports, [onboarding sponsors]( and [hiring Trends.vc Analysts](. 🔮 What's next? Our roadmap More Masterminds We will launch Mastermind #0005 this quarter. To keep groups healthy and scale, we're adding an automated attendance system. 3-Day Standup Streak Reward To bring more value to standups, we're adding a 3-day standup streak reward to our existing 10-day (Trends Tribe), 30-day (Hall of Fame) and 100-day (Masterminds) rewards. So far... - 7 members have reached a 300-day streak. - 38 members have reached a 100-day standup streak. - 65 members have reached a 30-day standup streak. - 108 members have reached a 10-day standup streak. - 136 members have reached a 3-day standup streak. Streamlining Operations To boost productivity, we will document and streamline core processes around reports, [hiring](, [sponsorships]( and split tests. We're moving these into [Process Street](. Podcast Interviews We received great feedback from appearances on podcasts such as [Indie Hackers](, [Creative Elements](, [Creator Lab](, [UI Breakfast]( and more. Look out for more interviews. Trends Pro Audio Due to low engagement, to focus our efforts, we will deprecate audio reports. Weekly Reports To deliver more value, faster, we're building our [Analyst team](. We'll move to weekly reports once we have capacity. Member of the Month To share lessons learned and celebrate members, we'll explore an interview series with [Trends Pro Members](. Think Tools of Titans. For bootstrapped founders. 💭 What else? Sponsor Us Would you like to reach 50,000+ investors and entrepreneurs? [Apply to sponsor us](. Trends.vc Analyst Referral Bonus We are still looking for [Trends.vc Analysts]( and offering a $1,000 referral bonus to those refer [analysts]( that pass the trial phase. Know someone who would be a great fit? [Share]( the Trends.vc Analyst role.  Last but not least... 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