{"generated_at":"2026-08-30T01:51:17.309Z","api_version":"v1","schema_revision":"2026-08-29","status_url":"https://grokbot.money/api/v1/status.json","count":1,"items":[{"type":"way","slug":"local-newsletter","name":"Local newsletter","summary":"A Thursday paper for 6,000 neighbors. Bots research, write, and sell the ads.","category":"run-a-business","source_url":"https://www.thefuturist.co/making-with-grok-bot/","url":"https://grokbot.money/ways/local-newsletter","detail_url":"https://grokbot.money/api/v1/ways/local-newsletter.json","handle":"@billyjhowell","handle_url":"https://x.com/billyjhowell","prompt":"You are the desk for one local Thursday paper. One town. One send. Mission: ship the issue and sell leftover slots.\n\nWeek 1: I am the human. You are chief of staff. Audit Notion, Gmail, and whatever I connect. Name three money jobs only: research, format, sales. Do not shop tools.\n\nResearch: twice a week, walk the source list I give you. Fill Notion cards with a real title, date, and short note. Never invent a shop, a quote, or a reader count.\n\nFormat: turn the cards I mark into one Thursday issue in the same shape every week.\n\nSales: watch Gmail for leftover ad slots. Price one slot. Draft one note. I send and close.\n\nAfter every run, five lines: what shipped, what is stuck, what needs me. Do not send the paper or email a shop until I say yes. Keep this account on this paper only.","added_at":"2026-08-29T18:00:00.000Z","intro":"Shops pay to sit in a free Thursday paper.","story":"The paper is The Arlington Bagel. It goes to about 6,000 neighbors every Thursday. A chief of staff bot audits the desk and names the first three money jobs. Research walks a source list twice a week and drops restaurant news and events into Notion. A formatter (or a later make.com step) turns those cards into the same blurb shape every week. Beehiiv sends the issue. Sales watches Gmail, prices leftover slots, and drafts the ask. A local bagel shop bought one week. We saw the interview. We did not see the books.","money_how":"A shop pays you for a slot in one issue. Readers get the paper free. You keep that fee after Beehiiv. The first dollar is one shop, one week — not a year of ads. The interview named that bagel-shop week. It is not a P&L.","steps":["Pick one town you already walk. Name the paper. Open a Beehiiv account. This Grok Bot box is only for this paper.","Connect Notion and Gmail. Make a chief of staff first. Ask it to audit the desk and name three money jobs: research, format, and sales. You pick Notion. Do not let it shop tools for a week.","Give research a source list (city calendar, local blogs, restaurant pages). Twice a week it fills Notion cards with a title, a date, and a short note. You move the cards that ship. It does not invent a shop or a quote.","A second bot (or a later make.com step) writes the Thursday issue from those cards. You tap send in Beehiiv the first month. Do not automate the send until two issues went out by hand.","Give sales Gmail. It watches for leftover slots, names one price, and drafts one note. You close. Quality over a blast — three custom packets beat 200 cold emails.","After each run, every bot writes five lines: what shipped, what is stuck, what needs you. Week one builds the team. Week two is execute only. Week three fills a real gap. Week four adds a routine."],"watch_out":["Tokens: one account, one paper. A second business on the same computer burns the week and mixes files.","Time: week two is execute, not tinkering. The interview is clear on that.","Claim: one bagel-shop ad was one week in an interview. Not a month of ads we have seen."],"try_first":"This week: name one town, open Beehiiv, and get one Notion card filled from a real local source. Do not sell an ad until that first issue can go out.","prompt_from":"the Futurist interview with @billyjhowell","youtube_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQluNEfSVHk","sources":[{"label":"Making $$$ with Grok Bot — The Futurist","url":"https://www.thefuturist.co/making-with-grok-bot/"}]}],"item":{"type":"way","slug":"local-newsletter","name":"Local newsletter","summary":"A Thursday paper for 6,000 neighbors. Bots research, write, and sell the ads.","category":"run-a-business","source_url":"https://www.thefuturist.co/making-with-grok-bot/","url":"https://grokbot.money/ways/local-newsletter","detail_url":"https://grokbot.money/api/v1/ways/local-newsletter.json","handle":"@billyjhowell","handle_url":"https://x.com/billyjhowell","prompt":"You are the desk for one local Thursday paper. One town. One send. Mission: ship the issue and sell leftover slots.\n\nWeek 1: I am the human. You are chief of staff. Audit Notion, Gmail, and whatever I connect. Name three money jobs only: research, format, sales. Do not shop tools.\n\nResearch: twice a week, walk the source list I give you. Fill Notion cards with a real title, date, and short note. Never invent a shop, a quote, or a reader count.\n\nFormat: turn the cards I mark into one Thursday issue in the same shape every week.\n\nSales: watch Gmail for leftover ad slots. Price one slot. Draft one note. I send and close.\n\nAfter every run, five lines: what shipped, what is stuck, what needs me. Do not send the paper or email a shop until I say yes. Keep this account on this paper only.","added_at":"2026-08-29T18:00:00.000Z","intro":"Shops pay to sit in a free Thursday paper.","story":"The paper is The Arlington Bagel. It goes to about 6,000 neighbors every Thursday. A chief of staff bot audits the desk and names the first three money jobs. Research walks a source list twice a week and drops restaurant news and events into Notion. A formatter (or a later make.com step) turns those cards into the same blurb shape every week. Beehiiv sends the issue. Sales watches Gmail, prices leftover slots, and drafts the ask. A local bagel shop bought one week. We saw the interview. We did not see the books.","money_how":"A shop pays you for a slot in one issue. Readers get the paper free. You keep that fee after Beehiiv. The first dollar is one shop, one week — not a year of ads. The interview named that bagel-shop week. It is not a P&L.","steps":["Pick one town you already walk. Name the paper. Open a Beehiiv account. This Grok Bot box is only for this paper.","Connect Notion and Gmail. Make a chief of staff first. Ask it to audit the desk and name three money jobs: research, format, and sales. You pick Notion. Do not let it shop tools for a week.","Give research a source list (city calendar, local blogs, restaurant pages). Twice a week it fills Notion cards with a title, a date, and a short note. You move the cards that ship. It does not invent a shop or a quote.","A second bot (or a later make.com step) writes the Thursday issue from those cards. You tap send in Beehiiv the first month. Do not automate the send until two issues went out by hand.","Give sales Gmail. It watches for leftover slots, names one price, and drafts one note. You close. Quality over a blast — three custom packets beat 200 cold emails.","After each run, every bot writes five lines: what shipped, what is stuck, what needs you. Week one builds the team. Week two is execute only. Week three fills a real gap. Week four adds a routine."],"watch_out":["Tokens: one account, one paper. A second business on the same computer burns the week and mixes files.","Time: week two is execute, not tinkering. The interview is clear on that.","Claim: one bagel-shop ad was one week in an interview. Not a month of ads we have seen."],"try_first":"This week: name one town, open Beehiiv, and get one Notion card filled from a real local source. Do not sell an ad until that first issue can go out.","prompt_from":"the Futurist interview with @billyjhowell","youtube_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQluNEfSVHk","sources":[{"label":"Making $$$ with Grok Bot — The Futurist","url":"https://www.thefuturist.co/making-with-grok-bot/"}]}}