What is community.founders.menu?

It’s a sanctuary for founders building simple products with personality. Far from the hype & forced scale. We are bullish on a handful of true fans who validate a repeatable business model. We are the founders with taste. Whether visual, written, or anything in between. We are the independent founder who chooses their own path and strive to embody these values. ↓

What are we for?

• Building for the thing, not the status.
• Saying “fuck it” & ship “just right”.
• Giving advice over opinions.
• Writing = clear thinking.
• Listening > speaking.

What are we against?

• Hypergrowth.
• Perfectionism.
• Complexity.
• Bragging.
• Mimicry.

How will this community work?

This community is meant to translate these values into an increased speed and quality of taking action around three pillars (also the channel structure):

• Regime → proven methods to inspire how you take action.
• Relations → energising people who love taking action together.
• Resources → inspiring ingredients to nudge what action to take next.

With the founders.menu platform as a guide, we have a growing list of ingredients to fuel valuable discussions in each of the three areas.

Let’s find out what works & what doesn't, together.

Sounds like you’d fit right in?

Introducing ䷀ Reads & ⦿ Streams with 15x items added to the database for each. About 40% of these new items are locked for premium members. This is quality content, mostly in the Idea → Concept as well as Concept → MVP stage. If you are stuck in either of these, an article or stream might give you exactly what you need to get unstuck – give it a try → founders.menu

Today, the curation reached 548 items & we are far from being done… I also took some time this week to clarify the early pricing and would love to welcome you as a full member – the earlier you join, the better the deal.

Join for $2.99/month today → https://founders.menu

Introducing 2x updates to the founders.menu platform. The addition of the ❖ Templates category. This means it is now possible to filter the database not only by the relevant stage of certain items, but also by the type (currently only ϟ Tools & ❖ Templates), but soon much more like Reads, Listens, and Streams… Most of these templates will be paid, but either free for Full Members or if they are pricy, Members will receive a special discount. Currently, this is set to -50% for Members. You can find and apply their discount via your account – feel free to log in and check it out.

If you aren’t a member just yet, why not become one today…

→ https://founders.menu

Today, the curation reached 44% (514/1157 tools only - that doesn’t even include streams, listens, and reads)! More value is added week by week. Here are the top highlights. ↓

[1] Introducing instant search (all items) – You can now filter the entire database by search input, discovering for example Notion or Slack extensions easier (title & description are considered).

[2] 95x tools added in the people category – Including the likes of Miro, Mural, Milanote, Notion, Current, Frame, & more. These will give your team collaboration superpowers… Most tools are in the [2] MVP → Business stage since they are most relevant for later-stage founders.

Get a deep-dive here: https://foundersmenu.beehiiv.com/p/007

What’s next? Introduce templates (downloadables members get either free or discounted access to) and a structured landing page to communicate the value of founders.menu clearly – there is so much to come!

More next week. ☻

This week’s product iteration brings a ton of new features to the platform. Apart from the 3 described below, the biggest change is that Stripe payments are now integrated. If you signed up since January 2024, your account will be a premium account until Q3 2024 as a thank you for being an early adopter. You will benefit from an increasingly growing curation of tools, reads, listens, and streams. Let’s check out and try out these changes via founders.menu. ↓

[1] Filter by stage is now possible for all items
For a total of 5 stages, you can now instantly filter the entire database to find items that are highly relevant to the stage of your current founder’s journey. Is this helpful?

[2] Liking to save items is now live for accounts
Find your favorites on your account - the count is visible globally.

[3] Members-only content is now actively locked
This affects 40% of the database.

Get a deep-dive here: https://foundersmenu.beehiiv.com/p/006

More next week. ☻

Each week brings more tools. And today introduced new business tools into the evergowing founders.menu directory. Totalling 418 items. That's just 36% of the tools database (only tools)...

Curation will now speed up thanks to some automation learnings over the past week. Lots of work was done behind the scenes.

Get a deep-dive here: https://foundersmenu.beehiiv.com/p/005

More next week. ☻

Each week brings more tools. And today introduced new business tools into the evergowing founders.menu directory. Totalling 307 items. That's just 26% of the tools database (tools only)...

Curation will now speed up thanks to some automation learnings over the past week. Lots of work was done behind the scenes.

Get a deep-dive here: https://foundersmenu.beehiiv.com/p/004

More next week. ☻

Each week brings more tools. And today introduced new business tools into the evergowing founders.menu directory. Totalling 138 items thus. That's just 12% of the database...

Curation will now speed up thanks to some automation learnings over the past week. Lots of work was done behind the scenes.

Get a deep-dive here: https://foundersmenu.beehiiv.com/p/003

More next week. ☻