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
Multi
Grow your YouTube on autopilot
HeadsUp
Know their moves before your customers do
Trends.vc
One trend a week for 50,000+ founders
Launches
| Date | Launch | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2026 | Charm | Get customers through Google and AI search. On autopilot. |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Title Scout | Pick YouTube titles that earn clicks. Scored and ranked with evidence from real videos. |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Thumbnail Generator | Get click-worthy YouTube thumbnails for any title. Two designs to choose from. |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Channel Predictor | See which YouTube topics will grow your business before you record. |
Books
- 🔁 Habits
- 🏆 Competition
- 🧪 Experiments
- 🧭 Thinking
- 🔨 Building
- 💯 100 Rules to Live By
Writing
- 🏋️ Why I Went to the Gym at Midnight (The Streak Method)
- 📕 The One-Morning Rule for Impossible Goals
- 📎 I Ran 150 Tests and Learned When to Quit
- 💣 I Got Lucky. That’s the Problem.
- 🎲 How to Get Lucky in Life
- ⏱️ How I Beat Perfectionism With a 3-Minute Clock
- 🌡️ What Soros Knew About Prediction Markets
- 🫀 Your Customers Aren’t Churning. You Are.
- 🔇 The Sound That Trained Me to Overwork
- 🃏 My Launch Got One Like
- ⚗️ Confidence Is a Side Effect
- 🧩 The Advice That Wrecked My Health
- 🔮 Build Assets Around Your AI, Not Conversations
- 🔬 Send from Your Name
- 🧭 The Middle Is Unknowable
- 🪞 Check If the Desire Is Yours
- 🎲 The Four Games
- ⚖️ Somebody Has to Absorb It
- 🚫 Use Your Rejections
- 🧫 Start With One Experiment
- 🎲 Fuck Around to Find Out
- 🔑 Change One Thing at a Time
- ✂️ The One-Hour Trap
- ⚡ The First Dollar
- 🛹 Skateboard to Space Station
- 🔧 Not Useful, Yet
- 🔗 Experiment Chains
- 🏁 Force Ranking
- 🎯 The Point Is to Try
- 🏔️ Climb to See the Next Peak
- 🔗 Composable Experiments
- 🏗️ How a Notion Doc Became a SaaS
- 🔁 Stop Prompting. Start Training.
- 🛠️ Be Your First Customer
- ⚠️ 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
- 🌱 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