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Sept 08, 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. Why is an Amazon-backed AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction?
   (When AI funding outpaces product-market fit, you don’t get unicorns you get Orson Welles fanfic.)

2. Facebook is trying to make ‘pokes’ happen again
   (Nostalgia is Meta’s newest feature.)

The Growth joke of the day

Growth hacking = doing 47 experiments…
and bragging about the 1 that worked. 😂

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Google: Your Login Pages May Be Hurting Your SEO Performance

  Google explains how generic login pages trigger duplicate indexing. Learn fixes using noindex, redirects, and paywall markup.

• Koah raises $5M to bring ads into AI apps

  How can startups and developers actually monetize their AI products? A startup called Koah, which recently raised $5 million in seed funding, is betting that ads will be a big part of the answer.

• Uber and Momenta to test autonomous vehicles in Germany in 2026

  Ride-hailing giant Uber and Chinese autonomous vehicle startup Momenta plan to start testing robotaxis in Munich, Germany starting in 2026 – the first continental European city either company has announced publicly – with plans to expand to other markets.

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People

• Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman tease the future of working in outer space: 'A future where millions of people will live and work in space'

  As artificial intelligence wipes out jobs and compounds the environmental issues faced on Earth, tech billionaires have been touting what they see as the jobs of the future: working in space.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• Snapchat’s new Lens lets you create AI images using text prompts

  Snapchat is launching a new Lens that lets users create and edit images using a text-to-image AI generator, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The new “Imagine Lens” is available to Snapchat+ Platinum and Lens+ subscribers.

• ChatGPT cracked a medical mystery in seconds after 5 years of struggle

  After enduring relentless pain for over five years, one individual finally found relief in an unexpected place—in less than a minute, thanks to ChatGPT, the AI chatbot from OpenAI. What took doctors years to figure out was solved instantly, sparking both awe and debate across Silicon Valley.

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