💻 >>hack day<< Marketing for Makers: Organic Growth Hacks

Forget tutorials. Learn by doing. We’ll start with five minutes of vibecoding tips, then spend the morning building whatever your imagination (and AI) can handle.

📈 Sunday, December 7 · 10am–1pm

Bring a laptop + tiny idea = Leave with users (or at least a plan)

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💭 What We’re Doing
We’re keeping the same format: short talk, long build.
This time we’re talking about what happens after you ship.

Then you’ll get two solid hours to build literally whatever you want using those tips as your playbook.

“Marketing for Makers: Organic Growth Hacks” is about getting eyes on what you build without being cringe, pushy, or paying for ads.

You don’t need a huge audience or a marketing degree. You just need the right habits and tools.

We’ll do a mini-presentation on organic reach, growth loops, and social proof, then everyone gets time to promote, tweak, or prep their next launch.

Vibecoding = you describe what you want → AI builds the scaffolding → you guide it to greatness.

And sometimes, that greatness comes from distribution.

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🎙 Mini Talk: Organic Growth Hacks That Work

1️⃣ Build in public – Share your process, not just your product.
2️⃣ Tell a story – People follow stories, not features.
3️⃣ Use loops – Create something people can share or remix.
4️⃣ Ask, then iterate – Real feedback beats endless building.
5️⃣ Post fast, fix later – Momentum beats polish every time.

We’ll look at real indie creators who got traction without ads and how “growth hacks” are really just experiments repeated with consistency.

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🎯 What You’ll Actually Do

Track 1: “Post It”
• Write a launch tweet, Threads post, or LinkedIn post about your project.
• Use AI to refine your hook and make it pop.

Track 2: “SEO It”
• Create a simple landing page or blog post using ChatGPT or Claude.
• Generate keywords, titles, and meta descriptions instantly.

Track 3: “Loop It”
• Add one shareable element to your app — a button, leaderboard, or generator.
• Deploy and share your link in the room.

Bonus Track: “Hype It”
• Build a quick pre-launch page with a waitlist or teaser headline.
• Add a single call-to-action that makes people curious.

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🪩 Reality Check

Marketing isn’t evil. It’s storytelling with distribution.
You can’t help people use what they don’t know exists.
You don’t need perfect branding, just clarity and repetition.
We’ll show you how to use small, repeatable actions to build real traction.

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## 🛠️ Your New Superpowers (The Tools We'll Use)

For Mobile:

• Bolt.new + Expo – Text-to-app that actually works on phones
• Cursor – Your IDE but with an AI copilot who actually understands context
• Emergent – AI-powered mobile development platform
• Rork – Rapid mobile prototyping with AI assistance

For Web:

• **Vercel v0.dev** – Generates UI components you'd actually want to keep
• **Lovable.dev** – Chat your way to full-stack apps
• Replit Agent – For when you need an AI junior dev for longer tasks

Command Line tools:

• Claude Code – Agentic coding from your terminal with excellent guardrails
• Gemini CLI – Open-source terminal agent that actually understands your codebase
• GitHub Copilot CLI – Chat in terminal, ship PRs like a boss
• OpenAI Codex – Direct access to GPT models for coding workflows

OR copy/paste from Claude + ChatGPT – Sometimes the simplest solution is the best solution

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## 📅 The Plan

10:00–10:30 Speed Dating for Ideas
Pitch your tiny build in 30 seconds. Find your coding buddy. No idea? We have a hat full of them (including "Tinder for finding tennis partners" and "Which friend owes me money tracker").

10:30–12:30 The Build Sprint
Two full hours to build! Pick a track. Steal our prompts. Break things. Fix things. Ship something real. We'll be circulating with "oh wait, try this prompt" tips.

12:30–1:00 Victory Lap / Demos
Show your creation. Share your killer prompt. Drop your deploy link in the chat. Everyone will clap even if it's wonky.

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## 🎒 What to Bring

• Laptop + charger (mandatory)
• Headphones (for focus mode)
• One tiny idea (or steal one from our idea jar)
• Low expectations, high curiosity (perfect combo)

## 🤝 Who Should Come?

• Founders / aspiring founders who want to start working on that business idea
• Developers who want to 10x their building speed
• Designers who want to make their designs real
• Product people who want to test ideas instantly
• Complete beginners who think "deploy" is a military term (we'll teach you!)
• AI skeptics welcome – see what's actually possible vs hype

## 💡 You'll Leave With:

✅ A deployed thing you built (with a real URL!)
✅ 3-5 battle-tested prompts you can reuse forever
✅ Actual understanding of how people are shipping with AI today
✅ New friends who also think building stuff is fun
✅ The dangerous confidence to build your next idea

## ⚡ The Fine Print

Cost: Free (bring your own coffee / snacks)
Skill Level: "I can open a laptop" to "I deploy to prod on Fridays"
Mood: Collaborative chaos with good intentions

## 💌 Questions?

Drop us a line in a DM or in a comment down below
Join the conversation: #ai channel in Digital Nomads Slack

## 🌈 Code of Conduct

Build cool stuff. Help others build cool stuff. Don't be a jerk. That's it.