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.