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Hitchhikers guide to growth hacking

This guide is hand-written by the founders of Gentura. You won't get this stuff from talking to an LLM. It’s the crème de la crème of practical strategies we've battle-tested, and they just work.

Gentura's agents can make you win over the next few months. But they're fully autonomous and don't need your help. To keep yourself busy, do everything in this guide for a massive headstart.

Is it a hustle? Yes. Will it work? Oh yes.

1. Browser automation

Create literal AI employees

Difficulty
ROI
Time1-3 day setup

Why do it?

You'll have interns doing grunt work 24/7 and bringing you traffic. And you'll be way ahead of the n8n automation circle-jerk.

Pick platforms where your target market is likely to live

RedditTwitterLinkedInProduct HuntInstagramFacebookTikTokDiscordGitHubTelegram

Test manually

Rule #1 of automations: you can't automate something that doesn't work manually.

For example, if linkedin comment sections is where your target hangs out:

• Find 10 relevant accounts

• Write 3 quality comments for each over a couple of days. (for new posts before they get traction)

• See if you get the traction you need

Build automations

Grab Cursor / Claude Code. Talk to ChatGPT to plan it all out first, don't be afraid to read and understand what you're doing, it's not hard.

For your first automation, it's fine to run it from your own IP address. When scaling, use residential proxies.

Use playwright for browser automation and chatGPT calls to get content. When commenting/posting, make sure to drop these in your prompt:

• Write like a human speaks. (it makes chatgpt think about speech transcripts, and it starts talking way more naturally)

• Use only 8th grade english. (gets rid of a lot of the ridiculous overused phrases)

• Do not use hyphens or dashes to connect sentence parts. (obvious)

• Use short and simple sentences only.

Importantly: your bot needs to act human. Natural pauses between actions, coffee-breaks every once in a while. Respect platform limits ("no more than 200 DMs per day"), but stay under it per account preferably. Act human.

With no prior coding experience, you'll have your first agent hustling in a few days. And this is a skill you can replicate across platforms, and even across your own projects.

2. Post Your Link Under Tweets

Minutes a day, consistent traffic

Difficulty
ROI
Time10 min/day

Why do it?

Because it takes minutes a day and can lead to some traffic.

Where to Post

Post your link under "share your project" tweets like this:

Use Twitter's built in tools to find relevant tweets:

• People complaining

• People asking for a solution

• People promoting your competitor

• Anything relevant goes

Crafting the Message

Get your USP right. Understand your target user, the problem you're solving, and your offer.

Deliver the message clearly. And hit some hype. Hit the user problem. And make an offer that they can't refuse, to get them interested.

Example: Instead of "I built a project that lets you automatically…" say "Replace your marketing team with autonomous AI agents."

Optimize Your Link

Make sure your site metadata looks good on Twitter.

It should show a nice image and proper preview.

Effort vs ROI

This is very low ROI but also very low effort.

Ten minutes a day is enough.

If it does not bring proper traffic, it will still bring you followers, partners, feedback.

3. Quora

AI engines love Quora

Difficulty
ROI
Time2-3 hours/week

Why do it?

Direct traffic, potential SEO, AI engines pull in Quora answers. It all leads to traffic.

Find Questions

Search for your industry keywords on Google ("best AI tools for…")

Look for results where Quora shows up.

Open those questions and join the discussion.

Do not search directly on quora. There's millions of questions of spam that never make it anywhere.

Write the Answer

Use ChatGPT to write a proper answer.

Use this prompt for best results:

"Write like a human speaks. Use short sentences. Use simple sentence structures. Only use 8th grade English. Do not use hyphens or dashes to connect sentence parts." - it's literal gold.

If you can be asked, run the answer through a smaller model to make it sound natural.

Even Gentura's agents do this

Fun fact: Gentura's agents do exactly this flow and answer questions on quora to get articles to index and to rank.

4. Reddit

Small plays for consistent traffic

Difficulty
ROI
Time1-2 hours/week

Why do it?

Direct traffic, potential SEO, AI engines pull in Reddit content. It all just means more traffic.

Find Relevant Posts

Search for your industry keywords on Google.

Look for results where Reddit shows up.

Write the Reply

Use ChatGPT to draft, same prompt as for Quora.

Not sounding like a bot is key here.

Add your product or link naturally. Use markdown, don't post full links.

Buy upvotes

Can be a good idea to buy enough upvotes to be in top replies, if it's viable (eg top comment has 3-5). Upvote.shop is good for this. Make sure to go with natural and slow settings.

Benefit

AI engines often pull in Reddit content, which gives long term visibility. Replies can also bring you direct traffic from readers in the thread.

Fun fact: Gentura's agents also post your articles on reddit, with this exact flow. Once again, to index and rank them.

5. Reddit (Bigger Play)

Millions of impressions possible

Difficulty
ROI
Time1-2 hours/week

Why do it?

Reddit has gotten me millions of impressions and tens of thousands of visitors with very minimal effort. But it's some deep user psychology, spamming doesn't work.

Choose Subreddits

• Pick 3 to 5 subreddits that match your niche.

• Join them.

• Spend time learning the culture.

• Understand the rules before posting.

Create the Post

Write an insanely good post that people will want to engage with. Browse what has gotten engagement before in that sub.

If the rules allow it, add your product link in a natural way. Not much point posting and getting banned.

Boost Visibility

Buy enough upvotes (for example, from upvote.shop).

The goal is to push your post into the "hot" feed.

Potential Reach

If done correctly, you can hit 100k impressions in a single day. Done it many times.

6. CRO (Conversion Rate Optimization)

Step by step conversion

Difficulty
ROI
TimeOngoing

Why do it?

Scaling crap doesn't work. If you're not converting, no amount of traffic will make you money.

Understand User Behavior

People do not land on your site and pay right away.

Your landing page needs to convince them step by step.

Learn from Others

No need to run A/B tests at the start.

Look at what successful players in your space are doing.

Replicate their onboarding flows.

Use an Onboarding Survey

Add a short survey with several questions.

The questions should make the user think about their problem.

This increases engagement and makes the solution feel more relevant.

Example

Check out Quittr as a great example of this done well.

There's also apps and databases with thousands of onboarding flows recorded.

User recordings and analytics

Record user sessions (Microsoft Clarity is a good free option) and analyze their behavior.

Set up analytics to see where users are dropping off.

7. Email Your Signups

Re-engage dropped users

Difficulty
ROI
TimeSetup once

Why do it?

Probably the dumbest thing solopreneurs people are missing. Every company has insane automations here, because this is how you convert.

Email the people who signed up but dropped off. You have their contacts. They were interested enough to sign up. Get on it, now.

Of course this needs to be automated eventually. If you're lost on automating it, talk to chatgpt.

8. On-Site SEO Blog

Long-term organic dominance

Difficulty
ROI
Time3-6 months

Why do it?

I get it, it takes time. But it's exactly the kind of play that takes off in a few months and gets you that stable MRR.

Set it up

If you want long-term organic growth, create an on-site SEO blog.

Make sure it uses server-side rendering, and is generally optimized, so Google can crawl it properly.

Don't forget to ask google to index it via the search console.

Build content clusters

Create clusters of articles around specific topics that your customers care about.

Each cluster should cover one major theme in depth.

Link your content

• Write a pillar article that gives a full overview of the topic.

• Write supporting articles that go deep into subtopics.

• Link all supporting articles to the pillar article.

• Link between the supporting articles where relevant.

• Link from each article back to your main site.

Example for an AI Marketing SaaS

Pillar article:

"The Complete Guide to AI Marketing in 2025"

Supporting articles:

• "How AI Can Improve Your Content Marketing ROI"

• "AI Tools for Automating Social Media Posts"

• "The Best AI Platforms for B2B Marketing Teams"

• "Case Studies: Companies That Grew Faster With AI Marketing"

• "The Future of AI in SEO and Content Creation"

Internal linking:

• Each supporting article links to the pillar guide.

• Supporting articles link to each other when topics overlap.

• Every article links back to your product as the solution.

Why this works

• Google recognizes your site as an authority on AI marketing.

• Pillar + cluster structure increases rankings across many keywords.

• Readers who land on your content are funneled toward your product.

9. Cold Outbound

Old but powerful, for now

Difficulty
ROI
Time1-3 days setup

Why do it?

If you figure this out, it's a powerful funnel. At least for the time being, before email cold outbound stops working (and it will).

Are you a B2B SaaS? Scrape leads from Apollo or scrape your own.

You can get leads out of Apollo with Apify.

Use MillionVerifier to verify the emails. Use Instantly to set up your campaigns.

Pro tip: write like a human.

Check out Sabri Suby's campaigns. Sign up for his email lists. See what he sends you.

Try to hit the same lead on several platforms. Email + Linkedin.

Oh, and even before you start, get domain warmups going.

10. Aggregators

Get listed everywhere

Difficulty
ROI
Time1-2 days

Why do it?

It's such a cheap and low effort way to get traffic and backlinks.

Sign Up

Sign up for AI tool aggregators to list your product.

These sites bring direct traffic and backlinks.

If some are out of your budget, skip them.

General Platforms (good for AI tools too)

11. Backlinks

Follow competitor strategies

Difficulty
ROI
Time1 day

Why do it?

SEO rankings. Traffic.

Go to ahrefs.com/backlink-checker and enter the URL of one of your competitors. The tool will show you all the websites that are linking back to them. Look at the list carefully. Check the type of backlink it is. Some might come from directories, blogs, guest posts, resource pages, or mentions in articles.

Once you see where your competitors are getting links from, make a plan to get your site listed in the same places. If it is a directory, submit your site. If it is a blog post, reach out to the author and suggest your tool as an additional resource. If it is a guest post, pitch your own article. If it is a mention, try to contact the site owner and ask them to include your product as well.

Repeat this with several competitors, not just one. Each of them will have different backlinks, and you want to cover as many as possible. This is one of the fastest ways to build backlinks that are already proven to work in your niche.

12. Ads

It's probably not the time yet

Difficulty
ROI
Time-

Why do it?

It's unlikely you'll find arbitrage or a distribution hack in ads. If you've got cash, and you're definitely already converting, then go for it. But make sure you know what you're doing.

Do not run ads unless you really know what you are doing. Even experienced marketers often struggle to get a positive return on ad spend. Training a pixel takes time and money. Setting up campaigns that actually work is hard and requires testing. The most important point is that your site must already convert visitors before you spend money on traffic. If your landing page does not convert, ads will only waste your budget.

13. Talk to Your Users

Reflect their words back at them

Difficulty
ROI
TimeOngoing

Why do it?

Your USP, and how you sell... is how you convert. You don't think like your user thinks. Get to know them. Crucial for conversion.

Whoever interacts with you, incentivize them to talk to you.

This is how you build a business.

Find a problem. Figure out a solution. Talk to 20 people about it. By the end, you will realize they are all telling you the same thing.

Reflect everything you have learned back to new people.

14. Capitalize on your following

Use existing connections

Difficulty
ROI
TimeImmediate

Why do it?

Literally why not? The only blocker is that you're scared to share your projects with people who know you. Get over it. There may be 30 paying customers sitting in your network.

Capitalize on your following. Got connections on LinkedIn? Why not promote to your following.

15. New arbitrage opportunities

Stay ahead of trends

Difficulty
ROI
TimeOngoing

Why do it?

Your enterprise competitors have cash, and they have a brand with a following. You can beat them by being smart. That's growth hacking.

Keep an eye out for new arbitrage. LinkedIn introduces short form videos they A/B test? Get on it fast.

16. Mini Tools / Calculators

Solve microproblems

Difficulty
ROI
Time1-2 weeks

Why do it?

Free tools get you traffic. They get shared. My free tools I coded in 1 hour and posted on reddit, have gotten 3000+ signups the same day. Repeatedly.

Build a small, single-purpose tool or calculator that solves a micro-problem for your audience (ROI calculator, savings estimator, etc.).

These get shared, linked to, and often rank in Google without heavy SEO.

They're free tools, so they're easy to link to in reddit etc as well. As you're not selling something.

Lead the traffic to your landing/onboarding.

(PS. If you're a vibecoder, this is probably the most fun you'll have as well.)

17. Social proof is everything

Hustle for testimonials

Difficulty
ROI
TimeOngoing

Why do it?

The consumer psychology here is painfully obvious. Just get it done.

People don't trust you. You need to show testimonials on your landing page and before your paywall. Real testimonials, with links to where they come from. This is literally the biggest hack here, to start converting.

18. On-site SEO fixes

Technical optimization

Difficulty
ROI
Time1-2 weeks

Why do it?

SEO takes time. But it matters everywhere across the board. Even if you're not interested in SEO traffic, then people don't always click on links to your page, they google you instead. And for site loading speeds... People leave your site if it loads for 7 seconds.

On-site SEO. Use tools to fix it. Make sure metadata is top notch. No broken links, phone load speed (may need to optimize media). Indexing checks. Internal linking. Clear and scannable content. Robots.txt. The usual. At least do the bare minimum.

19. Fix your landing page, please

Stop looking like everyone else

Difficulty
ROI
Time3-5 days

Why do it?

I'm not going explain why your landing page is important for conversion.

Work on your landing page. Buy one from framer or use bolt/lovable/etc. But put in the work. 99% of vibecoders launch with landing pages that look exactly like what they are. Crappy development is commoditized. You need to stand out.

Your landing pitch?

Bleeding neck problem

  • Identify the urgent, painful issue your user can’t ignore
  • Frame it so the cost of inaction is obvious

Godfather offer

  • Craft an irresistible offer that directly solves that pain
  • Boil it down to your simplest, sharpest USP

Don’t sell features, sell the solution to user problems.

Put your face behind things. People buy from people. People trust people. The average project is a scam. You need to get past that.

Don't try to invent the wheel. See exactly what successful competitors are doing. See what the biggest winners in general do. Study and replicate them. And I mean literally screenshot their full flows, put it all in figma, and design your version of it.