Greg Bates
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Greg Bates
@GregBates
Music, Tech, Marketing // SFMC at @CloudKettle
Halifax, Nova Scotia Tham gia Eylül 2008
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If you're now designing or redesigning a website, this will help you a lot.
I recently curated the best hero sections, footers, social proof and other website parts because I got tired of having 15+ tabs open (even with Mobbin).
Giving it away 100% free.
Comment on this post, and I'll send a Figma link to your inbox!
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I run my meta ads with @openclaw for $0/month 😱
here's the system that runs autonomously:
step 1: daily health check
→ social-cli (major shoutout to @vishalojha_me) wraps @Meta's marketing API (token refresh, pagination, rate limits all handled)
→ am I on track? what's running? who's winning? who's bleeding? any fatigue?
→ the same 5 questions I asked Ads Manager every morning for 20 years
step 2: catch dying ads before CPA spikes
→ @OpenClaw pulls daily frequency by ad
→ frequency > 3.5 = audience is cooked, CTR is about to drop
→ this one signal saves more money than any dashboard
step 3: auto-pause bleeders + shift budget to winners
→ CPA > 2.5x target for 48hrs? auto-pause. no hesitation.
→ ranks every campaign by efficiency. recommends shifting spend.
→ last fri it paused an $87 CPA campaign at 3am and scaled my best performer 30%
step 4: write new ad copy from your winners
→ agent analyzes what's working (hooks, angles, CTAs)
→ generates variations based on the patterns in YOUR top performers
→ copy modeled on what already converts in your account.
step 5: upload ads directly to your account
→ new creative + copy
→ live in @Meta Ads Manager
→ no more downloading, formatting, clicking through the upload flow
→ agent handles the entire publish cycle
step 6: content concepts + morning brief
→ spots patterns across winners and suggests what to test next
→ delivers everything to Telegram, Slack, wherever you want it
→ 90 seconds to read. reply "approved." done.
input: your ad account + your target CPA
output: an AI that monitors, kills, scales, writes, AND uploads your ads
dozens of hours in ad manager → 1 text message
I packaged the entire system as the Meta Ads Kit.
5 @OpenClaw skills:
- meta-ads (daily checks + auto-pause)
- ad-creative-monitor (fatigue detection)
- budget-optimizer (efficiency scoring + shift recs)
- ad-copy-generator (writes variations from your winners)
- ad-upload (publishes creative directly to your account)
giving it away free.
comment ADS + like + follow
(must follow so i can DM)
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I just had Claude Code build me a Facebook ad generator that can make 100+ on-brand ad variations in minutes for $0. And I made a full Notion document guide for you.
It includes:
1. How to use Claude to find the pain points and desired outcomes of your ICP
2. How to use these pain points and outcomes to write ad copy variations
3. How to build a Facebook ad template entirely with code (just like the ones you see)
4. How focus Claude Code’s design so the ad feels “on-brand”
5. How to export the Facebook ads as PNGs in a zip file
6. How to bulk upload them to a Facebook ad set
7. How to use an AI data analyst to track the success of these ads
Everything above is just API calls and Claude Code doing the work for you.
You just come up with the ideas and polish the outputs.
Like and comment "generator" and I'll send the Notion document to you

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I work at @base44 , so I see many prompts every day.
Most of them are okay. Some are good. But about 1% are genius.
I spent the last week analyzing that top 1%.
The results were honestly shocking. 🤯
Most users prompt like they are talking to a human:
"Make a cool, modern website for a tech company." (Results: Generic, boring, hallucinations).
If you want to learn how to prompt and vibe code like a pro
Drop a comment below, and I'll send the guide to your inbox. 📥
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i just made a full walkthrough on how I made this ad for GTE / Polymarket with the help of AI...
the guide includes:
- my editing process
- AI tools used
- my overall approach/thesis on these kinds of videos
if you want the full guide, reply “YES” + RT and I’ll DM it to you
(must be following)
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You can 10x the quality of your AI videos by injecting as many non-AI elements as possible
It's easy to lap people who outsource all their thinking to AI by building a deep context bank of what's worked historically in traditional film
I started building a swipe file which includes:
- actual film work
- commercials that made me stop scrolling
- movie trailers that gave me chills
- random clips I couldn't look away from
This is a must have to get better scene ideas, sharper editing styles, understand pacin and actually directing AI instead of just prompting it
RT + comment "SWIPE" and I'll send over the file (must be following so i can dm)




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Part 8 of building my local newsletter to $1M in profit.
The newsletter currently makes $10–12K/month.
But a lot changed this month...
I talked to Alex Hormozi for 8 minutes.
Lost $6,000 and decided to give away $15,000.
Here's everything that happened:
(And what I learned)
To catch you up, we currently have:
• 40,000 email subscribers
• And 80,000 social followers.
I decided to start a Christmas lights company on the back of that audience.
The problem?
I was suddenly running two completely different businesses...
All just to try and make $1M a year.
So after the call with Alex, the decision became clear: shut it down and go all in on the newsletter.
Here’s how it went down.
I bought Alex’s $6,000 package and somehow ended up on a live call with him.
And if that wasn’t nerve-wracking enough, Leila joined too.
Key takeaways from the call:
• Don’t chase shiny objects (Christmas lights was one)
• Don’t expand to other cities or niches
• Focus only on growing Winnipeg Digest to 250,000+ subscribers first
• Just by selling ads, and that alone can be a $1M/year business
So the next day, I shut down the lights business.
Gave away my clients to another local company in exchange for them doing the takedowns later this season.
Lost about $6K in gear and materials.
But gained clarity that’s worth way more.
Now the focus is simple: Get Winnipeg Digest from 40,000 → 100,000 subscribers.
How I’m doing it:
• Self-liquidating offer
• Sell local guides on the thank-you page and welcome sequence
If it costs me $1 to get a subscriber,
and I sell a $23 local guide...
I just need 1 in 23 people to buy it to break even, and then I can scale infinitely.
To go along with the SLO, we’re going all in on growth!
We’re giving away $15,000 in prizes over 25 days...
Partnering with 25 local businesses to run a new giveaway every single day this holiday season.
The goal?
Grow our social following fast...
and use Manychat automations to convert those followers into newsletter subscribers.
Overall, learned some tough lessons. But wouldn't do it any other way...
Now, comment below what you think of the plan? And were the Christmas Lights a dumb idea?
Tagging the boys for feedback: @WalkerDrewett @trentjhughes @CoFoundersNik @mhp_guy @MikeyPesto @AlexHormozi @businessbarista @sodacitysimpson

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A fully functional, open source replacement for @beehiiv for local newsletters will be out within 1-2 weeks

geetfun@geetfun
Shoutout to @aniketapanjwani for building an integration for @sendbroadcast + Payload CMS! 🤯 github.com/aniketpanjwani…
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@_catwu I'm getting these errors constantly on Max plan. Is there something I can do to resolve, or do I just have to wait for something to be fixed?

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I built an AI Agent that
> takes all my competitors Meta Ads
> transcribes them
> repurposes them
> add them to a slack channel
> ready to generate in arcads.ai
comment "ai agent" to get access
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$10,000 Payment Platform for a client
Built w/ @boltdotnew using my AI Design Playbook
Comment “Bolt” + follow — I’ll DM it to you
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A few weeks ago the @ycombinator batch begged me to make a CRM crash course for founder-led sales.
After multiple drink offers 🍻— I gave in.
The session itself went semi-viral inside the batch, and people keep asking for the video.
If you’re doing founder-led sales, the CRM might feel like this clunky behemoth system—it doesn’t have to.
In the video I go over the absolute basics:
→ The only 3 CRM objects that REALLY matter (Deals, Contacts, Companies)
→ CRM best practices
→ Why logging every interaction isn't optional
→ How to set up/automate your CRM so it becomes your single source of truth (and sales doesn't hate using it)
I wasn’t planning on releasing this outside the YC group, but given the response, happy to share it with others running early sales teams.
If you want the video → just comment "CRM" and I’ll DM it to you.
Thank you to Aaron Zelinger, @ghita__ha, @Pashpops, @JoshSabol, Thibault Henriet. @NityaArora14, @gunwoo__kim, @adinagoerres for making sure I got this out.
This ended up being one of the highest ROI hours I’ve spent lately — founders really need better sales and CRM playbooks.
If you’re in the trenches with founder-led sales and figuring this out, happy to help.


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I think marijuana is the most insidious of drugs. It is legal in many states, is socially acceptable to many and is relatively easy for kids to hide, access and consume (vape, gummies etc).
But the science is beginning to tell a very ugly story.
We should have never legalized it. But now that it is, I hope we do something to mandate standard toxicity and concentration labeling at a minimum. This stuff is turning a plurality of our kids into zombies.
scientificamerican.com/article/the-li…
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We built this entire website using AI (@cursor_ai). In under 12 hours.
I documented every step in a playbook.
This sets the new bar for AI-powered “design coding.”
Comment “Design” + follow me — I’ll DM it to you.
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