About
I write each day. Run Trends.vc and HeadsUp. I follow my bliss. Sometimes that turns into a business.
Interviews
- #016 — Dru Riley (Yo! Podcast)
- Behind the Success of Trends.vc (Indie Bites)
- Crypto Literacy, Daily Habits, and New Business Ideas (Indie Hackers)
- Dru Riley – 45,000+ email subscribers in less than 2 years (Creative Elements)
- Jamming with Dru Riley from Trends.vc (Startup to Last)
- Meta-Trends, Paid Newsletters + Crypto (Creator Lab)
- Persisting Through Failures to Find a Winning Trend (Indie Hackers)
- Product Trends with Dru Riley (UI Breakfast)
- Q&A with Dru Riley + Inbox Innovations (Not Boring)
Projects
HeadsUp
The first AI competitive intelligence agent.
Trends.vc
Trends helps founders and investors discover new markets and ideas.
Writing
- ⚠️ High-Output, Hidden Risk
- 👥 Twin-Driven Development
- 💤 Background Businesses
- 📅 How I Review a Year in One Hour
- 🦹♀️ From Decent to Dominant
- 🎨 More Examples Make It Easier
- 🔁 The Replay Protocol
- ☀️ The Experiment That Changed My Mornings
- ✈️ Micro-Failure vs Macro-Failure
- 🧬 Founder-Nature Fit
- 💜 Make Yourself the Moat
- 📨 Why I Check Email Once a Week
- 🔎 Easy Choices, Hard Life
- 🧪 How a Failed Pre-Sell Built My Business
- 🏋️♂️ Compound Lifts
- ♟️ Don’t Waste Pain
- 🔪 Is It Necessary?
- 🎲 If You Can’t Lose, You Aren’t Playing
- 🫵 Words Are Software
- 🩸 Pick Your Pain
- 🆔 How-I Beats How-To
- 🐸 Eat the Frog Last
- ⚓ The Resistance Rule
- 🤏 Start Laughably Small
- 🛡️ No One Owes You Sh*t
- ✍️ Friction is the Feature
- 🏚️ Why I Love When Things Break
- 🏃♂️ Why 1% Better Isn’t Enough
- 🧱 Not Perfect, But Better
- 💎 Simplicity Through Intensity
- 🚩 The Hidden Cost of Unreliability
- 🪴 Atomic Ivy Lee Method
- 📊 The Habit Range System
- 📒 The Dru Guide: How to Work with Me
- 🌱 How I Built a Paid Community to 1,000+ Members in 10 Months
- ⏳ 3 Years. No Income.
- 📡 Signal-to-Noise
- ⚠️ Platform Risk
- 🚀 Venture Scale
- 💸 Million-Dollar No Code Businesses
- 📜 100 Rules — Personal Philosophy