OSS Models, $100M ARR, and Tool Frenzy 🚀

Welcome back, Growth Hacker! It happens slowly, then all at once—open‑weight LLMs dropped, a weekend side‑project hit $100 M ARR, and half a dozen new tools landed before your coffee cooled. Let’s break it down.

TODAY IN AI

1. OpenAI Goes OSS: Two Apache‑licensed models (20B & 120B) give indie hackers on‑prem freedom without GPU sticker shock—GitHub forks are already flying.

2. Lovable Rockets to $100 M ARR: Everyone’s heard of Anton Osika’s re‑skinned GPT‑Engineer hitting 2 M builders and $100 M ARR in eight months—but yesterday he posted the inside scoop on how he did that on Indie Hacker.

3. Bifrost Lightspeed Gateway: Self‑hosted proxy claims 40× LiteLLM speed and 1 000+ model routing—goodbye vendor lock‑in, hello latency‑free experiments.

FREE WORKFLOWS FROM  N8N

Ship news videos while you sleep. N8n’s new workflow blitzes RSS feeds, drafts scripts with GPT‑4o, spins up avatar anchors in HeyGen, and posts to every social channel—all code‑free. Get the template and watch your feed come alive.

THE AI ACADEMY

Automate your lead funnel in 7 steps—no dev needed.

1. Spin up a new GPT and upload 12 months of lead data + your best sales scripts.

2. Paste this system prompt: “You’re my BDC closer—match tone to source and zip code, output email, SMS, voicemail.”

3. When a fresh lead PDF lands, drop it into the GPT; grab the tailored outreach triad it returns.

4. Pipe the voicemail text into an M‑1 voice app for instant, on‑brand audio.

5. Push mid‑funnel leads to the bot; keep humans on high‑intent prospects.

6. Track reply rates; tweak prompts by channel weekly.

7. Double your close rate—Cape Coral CDJR just did.

Full walkthrough here.

PRODUCTIVITY — 5 New Tools

🖼️ Jeo: Multi‑model video generator (Veo 3, Kling, Hailuo) spits cinematic clips in 90 seconds.

📊 Source: AI attribution dashboards that finally show which campaign prints revenue.

🤖 Agent Maya: LinkedIn co‑pilot writes intros, replies, and nudges you to book the call.

🎯 IMGPT v2: Scrape your site, auto‑build on‑brand ad creatives, publish straight to Meta Ads.

🚀 Earlytap: One‑sentence product idea → branded landing page, waitlist, and feedback survey in minutes.

Until next time — Shawn & The Lazy Growth Hacker team!

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