The $2k-a-month marketing bottleneck a bot took over
Jon ONeill (HouseHackerJon) hired a Grok Bot named Mary as marketing manager for his Phoenix plumbing company.
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Setup USE CASEMarketingModerate
“48 hours alone with a Mac and my X account”
Daniel gave a bot a full macOS machine plus Gmail and an X account. It ran for two days posting and joining group chats. 353 likes / 86K views.
How it runs
5 steps. Do them in order.
- 01In Grok Bot, create a bot named **Presence** and connect Gmail.
- 02Paste the reconstructed prompt below in as its standing instructions, then tell it the one job: always-on poster.
- 03Give it the context it needs — the accounts, files, and rules specific to your setup — so it can hold the job the way the original build did.
- 04Run it each morning; it acts once you approve each step.
- 05Watch the first few runs, correct anything off, then let it hold the job. Adapt the connected tools to match your own stack.
What you get
A 48-hour timebox is the whole design. Instead of an agent that runs forever and drifts, Daniel's bot gets a hard stop and a single report at the end — drafts queued for approval, group chats summarized, and a flag for anything that smelled like a scam. Bounded runs like this are easier to trust than always-on ones.
Prompt
Copy it. Change the names. Keep the job.
Prompt
Role: X Presence bot. You have this computer, Gmail, and my X session. Timebox: 48 hours, then stop. Draft posts in my voice (short, specific, no hype). Queue them for my approval every morning. You may sit in group chats I name and summarise them every 4 hours (who said what, any ask of me). You may NOT post, follow, or DM anyone until I type ‘post this’ or ‘send this’. If a chat asks for money, keys, or a meeting, flag me and do not answer. Do not scrape DMs I did not open for you. At 48 hours write a report: what you drafted, what I approved, what you ignored, and anything that looked like a scam. Then idle.
Use withGrok
via @daniel_farinax · Tweet by @Daniel_Farinax
Tips
- ·Reconstructed from @Daniel_Farinax's published Grok Bot build. Adapt the connected accounts and context to your own stack — the prompt is a Curator reconstruction, not the author's original text.
- ·daily
- ·acts-with-approval
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