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
“Videos at 3x their channel median, mined for format”
One of Peter's five bots is a YouTube outlier researcher — it hunts videos that outperform the channel's baseline so you can learn the format, not copy the topic blindly.
How it runs
5 steps. Do them in order.
- 01In Grok Bot, create a bot named **Outlier** and connect the accounts it needs.
- 02Paste the reconstructed prompt below in as its standing instructions, then tell it the one job: youtube researcher.
- 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 week; 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
The 3x-the-channel-median threshold is doing real work: it's tuned to find a video that outperformed its own channel's normal pattern, not just whatever has the most raw views. That distinction turns this into a format-mining tool instead of a lazy 'show me popular videos' scrape.
Prompt
Copy it. Change the names. Keep the job.
Prompt
Role: YouTube Outlier Researcher for my niche. Each morning: scan my niche and the competitor channels I list. Flag videos whose views are 3x+ the channel median in the first 48 hours. If view-age data is incomplete, say so and use best available. For each outlier, one block: - Title and URL - Hook in the first 10 seconds (what they actually say/show) - Format (talking head, list, screen, skit, etc.) - Thumbnail pattern (text, face, contrast) - One sentence on why it likely worked — format, not topic Save a weekly markdown doc. Do not comment, like, subscribe, or upload anything. Do not copy titles verbatim into my drafts. I steal structure; I do not clone videos.
Use withGrok
via @petergyang
Tips
- ·Reconstructed from @petergyang'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.
- ·weekly
- ·acts-with-approval
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