From 2508459898bae762e74b32beea45c554d4e0c192 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sarina Li Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2025 12:11:16 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] fix blog post --- .../computer-use-agents-for-growth-hacking.md | 45 +++++++------------ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) diff --git a/blog/computer-use-agents-for-growth-hacking.md b/blog/computer-use-agents-for-growth-hacking.md index 6bf25ea5..c92dd60d 100644 --- a/blog/computer-use-agents-for-growth-hacking.md +++ b/blog/computer-use-agents-for-growth-hacking.md @@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ Growing a developer-focused product is hard. Traditional marketing doesn't work. So we tried something different at Google DevFest Toronto: show up with backpacks full of cute cua-la keychains and see what happens. -This is the story of how two new hires—a growth engineer and a designer/artist—guerrilla marketed their way through a major tech conference with $200 worth of merch and a post-event automation pipeline. +This is the story of how two new hires, a growth engineer and a designer/artist, guerrilla marketed their way through a major tech conference with $200 worth of merch and a post-event automation pipeline. ## Meet the Team **Sarina** (Growth Engineering): Built the post-event automation pipeline that extracts LinkedIn connections and generates personalized messages while you sleep. -**Esther** (Design + Art): Hand-crafted every piece of artwork, giving life to CUA through illustrations, branding, and yes, extremely cute cua-la keychains. +**Esther** (Design + Art): Hand-crafted every piece of artwork, giving life to Cua through illustrations, branding, and yes, extremely cute cua-la keychains. The thesis: what if we could draw people in with irresistible physical merch, then use computer use agents to handle all the tedious follow-up work? @@ -24,11 +24,9 @@ The thesis: what if we could draw people in with irresistible physical merch, th Google DevFest Toronto brought together hundreds of developers and AI enthusiasts. We didn't have a booth. We didn't have demos. We showed up with backpacks full of cua-la keychains with the cua.ai logo and started handing them out. -That's it. Pure guerrilla marketing. +That's it. Pure guerrilla marketing, the cua-las were absurdly effective. -The cua-las were absurdly effective. - -People would literally crowd around us—not because they were interested in computer use (at first), but because they wanted a cua-la. We'd pitch CUA while handing out keychains, and suddenly we had an engaged audience. No booth required. +People would literally crowd around us, not because they were interested in computer use (at first), but because they wanted a cua-la. We'd pitch Cua while handing out keychains, and suddenly we had an engaged audience! DevFest crowd @@ -36,13 +34,13 @@ People would literally crowd around us—not because they were interested in com A few people stuck the cua-las on their bags immediately. Then, throughout the event, we started getting approached: -"Wait, are you the CUA girls?" +"Wait, are you the Cua girls?" -They'd seen the cua-las on someone's bag, asked about it, and tracked us down. The keychains became walking advertisements. +They'd seen the cua-las on someone's bag, asked about it, and tracked us down! The keychains became walking advertisements. Hack the North recognition at DevFest -Even better: two attendees recognized CUA from Hack the North. Our previous event marketing was actually working. People remembered us. +Even better: two attendees recognized Cua from Hack the North. Our previous event marketing was actually working. People remembered us. ## Part 2: The Automation (Try It Yourself) @@ -64,9 +62,9 @@ Sarina had a better idea: build the automation we wish existed, then open source LinkedIn scraping automation in action -The agent navigates LinkedIn like a human would—click profile, extract info, navigate back, repeat. But it does it overnight while you sleep. +The agent navigates LinkedIn like a human would: click profile, extract info, navigate back, repeat. But it does it overnight while you sleep. -The secret sauce: **VM session persistence**. By logging into LinkedIn once through CUA's VM, the session stays alive. No captchas, no bot detection, just smooth automation. +The secret sauce: **VM session persistence**. By logging into LinkedIn once through Cua's VM, the session stays alive. No captchas, no bot detection, just smooth automation.