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Sept 01, 2025

Hello, GrowthHackers! 

Welcome to your daily unfair advantage.

Every morning, we cut through the noise to bring you sharp insights, fast news, and fresh sparks to light up your brain and fuel your hustle. From scrappy hacks to big tech moves, AI shifts to culture flips—this is your intel to stay ahead, move fast, and break boring.

Think of it as your growth-fueled espresso shot.
Short. Smart. Addictive.

Let’s dive in.👇

Quick Hits

1. Gmail’s Spam Problem Just Went Political—FTC Steps In
   (When your spam filter becomes a gatekeeper for democracy, growth metrics turn into policy debates.)

2. Meta updates chatbot rules to avoid inappropriate topics with teen users
   (Scaling AI means scaling responsibility.)

3. WhatsApp Patches Zero-Click Exploit Targeting iOS and macOS Devices
   (One exploit can undo years of trust faster than any campaign can build it.)

The Growth joke of the day

Told my mom I work in SEO.
She asked if I could make her Facebook posts rank higher on Google. 😂

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Google Drops SEO Playbook for JavaScript Paywalls

  Google's updated documentation asks publishers to change how they use JavaScript to block users from paywalled content.

• UK age check law seems to be hurting sites that comply, helping those that don’t
  The United Kingdom recently started enforcing the Online Safety Act’s age-check rules, and The Washington Post reports that it’s already having a significant effect on web traffic.

• Age Verification Laws Collide with Mastodon’s Decentralized Reality
  Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law — the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state — because it doesn’t have the means to do so.

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People

• Lovable’s CEO isn’t too worried about the vibe-coding competition

  Osika laid out a vision for Lovable as the best place to build software products: a platform that can take users, founders, specifically, through all the stages of product development. so they can build AI-native companies more easily.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
  ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users.

• How the AI data center boom is breathing new life into dirty, old coal plants
  Earlier this year, developers announced they would take the coal plant’s corpse—and its invaluable grid interconnections—and resurrect it into the Homer City Energy Campus, a sprawling AI data center complex powered by the largest natural gas-fired power plant in the country, opening on a fast-tracked timeline in 2027.

The Key to a $1.3 Trillion Opportunity

A new trend in real estate is making the most expensive properties obtainable. It’s called co-ownership, and it’s revolutionizing the $1.3T vacation home market.

The company leading the trend? Pacaso. Created by the founder behind a $120M prior exit, Pacaso turns underutilized luxury properties into fully-managed assets and makes them accessible to the broadest possible market.

The result? More than $1B in transactions and service fees, 2,000+ happy homeowners, and over $110m in gross profit to date for Pacaso.

With rapid international growth and 41% gross profit growth last year alone, Pacaso is hitting their stride. They even recently reserved the Nasdaq ticker PCSO.

The same VCs that backed Uber, eBay, and Venmo also backed Pacaso. Join them as a Pacaso shareholder before the opportunity ends September 18.

Invest While You Still Can

_{Paid advertisement for Pacaso’s Regulation A offering. Read the offering circular at invest.pacaso.com. Reserving a ticker symbol is not a guarantee that the company will go public. Listing on the NASDAQ is subject to approvals.}