Friday, October 9, 2026ArchiveSearchAsk the paper

THE SHIPLOG

Curated, not crawled.▶ LISTEN TO TODAY'S SHIPLOG · 6 MINcurated by @computomatix
✉ Subscribe
✉ Subscribed ✓

Grok Bot Prospecting Playbook Pitched as Lead-Generation Tool

X. It’s what’s happening

A post by KippBodnar.eth lays out an eight-step plan for using Grok Bot to search X for people discussing a product's use case, enrich their contact details and score them against past customers. It quotes an announcement that Grok Bot can now search, read and monitor X.

Original post · 1 min read
This makes @grokbot the most powerful tool for prospecting against X.com data on the planet. Any smart person who wants to grow their biz should do the following right now.

1. Build a Grok Bot for each use case of their product or service offering.

2. Give each bot the full context of that product and service offering. Pricing, features, case studies, customer reviews, all of it.

3. Have each bot look at the last 30 days of posts and comments where people are talking about that use case on X.com

4. Have it return those posts and profiles as well as any profile data in a spreadsheet.

5. Integrate data enrichment services to get phone and email for those contacts.

6. Have your bot build a scoring model based on past customers.

7 Call, message or email the best fit people.

8. Make 💰
Grok Bot @bot
Grok Bot can now search, read, and monitor X.
x.comX. It’s what’s happeningFrom breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.
♥ 280 · ⟲ 6 · 👁 35.0KView on X ↗

More in Startups & Products

Nous Research Raises $90 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation for Hermes Agent

Nikhil Pahwa congratulates Nous Research on a reported $90 million raise at a $1.5 billion valuation after its open-source Hermes agent was downloaded 22.7 million times, with about $36 million in annualized revenue by mid-September.

Original post · 1 min read
Well deserved! Congrats @NousResearch @Teknium @Kshitijjkapoor . You've built something amazing here. Thank you!
Choblin @choblin29
🚨BREAKING: Nous Research has raised $90 million at a $1.5 billion valuation after its open-source Hermes agent exploded in usage.

Hermes has been downloaded 22.7 million times since February.

Nous was at roughly $36 million in annualized revenue by mid-September. It expects to pass $100 million later this year.
♥ 20 · ⟲ 2 · 👁 1.3KView on X ↗

Explee Offers AI Outreach Agent That Finds and Emails Customers

Explee Offers AI Outreach Agent That Finds and Emails Customers

Vladimir Bayandin promotes Explee, an AI outreach agent that identifies ideal customers from a website link, writes personalized emails, books calls and handles follow-ups. He offers a $30 free trial.

Original post · 1 min read
i'm sorry, Claude can WHAT?

it can take your website link, find people who need your product, email them and book the calls?

since when?? i've been doing this by hand for a YEAR.

ok. testing it: $30 free 👇

explee.com/
explee.comExplee — Your 24/7 Outreach AgentAI finds your ideal customers, writes personalized emails, and handles follow-ups.
♥ 1.4K · ⟲ 71 · 👁 515.9KView on X ↗

Andreessen Horowitz Maps Where Startups Can Win in Consumer AI

Andreessen Horowitz Maps Where Startups Can Win in Consumer AI

Olivia Moore shares an a16z map identifying search, creative tools and productivity as areas where early consumer AI winners are emerging, while social, marketplaces, travel, finance and other categories remain open.

Original post · 1 min read
Where can startups win in consumer AI?

We @a16z mapped out where we see early winners - search, creative tools, productivity 👇

We're still waiting for winners everywhere else - social, marketplaces, travel, finance, hiring, dating, gaming, media, and more
♥ 345 · ⟲ 31 · 👁 32.9KView on X ↗

Orkut Buyukkokten Teases Return of Orkut Social Network

Orkut Buyukkokten Teases Return of Orkut Social Network

Orkut Buyukkokten invites people to add their name at orkut.com and share supporter cards, promising a big change on October 8. The linked page is in Portuguese and English and frames the relaunch around friendship and community.

Original post · 1 min read
The internet should help us find our people. Friendship. Community. A place to belong.

Help me bring Orkut back in that spirit. Add your name at orkut.com and share your supporter card with someone you want to bring along.

Love,
Orkut
orkut.comorkutUma grande mudança vem aí: 08/10, às 10h (horário de Brasília). · A big change is coming: Oct. 8, 9am New York time.
♥ 2.3K · ⟲ 349 · 👁 154.1KView on X ↗

Ankit Shukla on the Rise of the Product Builder Role

Ankit Shukla discusses the emerging Product Builder role, citing data that over 30% of PM roles now ask for AI skills and outlining a POWER framework for finding AI problems worth solving. The post is largely a podcast promotion with a substantive guide attached.

“The number one skill those postings asked for was judgment: knowing which problems deserve AI.”— Aakash Gupta
Get The Shiplog by email. Each morning: the audio briefing, the top stories and the best of the newsletters. Free.
Free · unsubscribe anytime · Privacy