Growth marketing deserved a home. So we're building one.
For years, the people who actually drive growth have worked in the shadows - their best results buried in dashboards, their reputation reduced to a job title anyone can fake. We started Growth-Hackers.com to change that: an open reputation layer where the work ranks, not the title, and every claim comes with receipts.
Community-voted. Results-verified. No pay-to-win rankings.
The problem we exist to end
Growth marketing is one of the highest-leverage jobs in tech. It's also one of the least legible.
The best campaign a marketer ever ran is trapped inside a private dashboard. The tactic that actually moved the needle is lost in a firehose of X threads, $2,000 gated courses, and recycled listicle spam. And "reputation" is a LinkedIn headline - unverified, unranked, and easy to fake.
So everyone ends up guessing.
- —Founders spend $50K–$150K on the wrong growth hire, then do it again.
- —Teams burn $2K–$20K per experiment - and roughly 70% of them fail.
- —Brilliant operators stay invisible while the loudest voices win the clients.
Merit goes unrewarded. Noise beats signal. Millions get wasted on the wrong people and yesterday's playbooks. That's the world we're here to end.
$50K–$150K
Cost of a single wrong growth hire.
$2K–$20K
Burned per growth experiment.
70% fail
Of experiments never move the needle.
* Industry estimates.
Our mission
We give growth marketers a home to prove what works, build their reputation, and get discovered - and we give founders and brands a trusted place to find proven tactics and the people behind them.
Two sides. One flywheel. Marketers bring the receipts. Founders, agencies, and vendors come for the signal. And the more the community contributes, the more valuable that signal becomes - for everyone.
If either side is neglected, the whole thing breaks. So we build for both.
Marketers
bring receipts
Founders / Brands
come for signal
The world we're building toward
A world where every growth marketer's reputation is earned in the open - where the best tactics rise on merit, and the people who drive growth are as discoverable, credentialed, and celebrated as the products they build.
GitHub did it for engineers. Dribbble did it for designers. Product Hunt did it for launches. Each gave a craft a home - a place where the work speaks, reputation compounds, and the best rise on merit.
Growth marketing never had that. We're building it.
Read the full manifestoWhat we believe
These six principles decide every product call, every ranking rule, and every line of copy we write. They're the reason to trust us with your reputation.
Receipts Over Rhetoric
Claims are backed by results, or they're flagged. We reward verified numbers and refuse to celebrate empty hype. If you can show it, show it.
See how we verify results →Givers Gain
Contribution compounds. The more you share what actually works, the more discoverable - and valuable - you become. Generosity is the growth strategy.
Merit Is the Only Credential
The work ranks, not the title. A solo operator with receipts can outrank an agency with a logo. No gatekeepers, no pedigree required.
In the Open
Reputation is built publicly. Profiles, votes, and rankings are transparent and shareable. No black boxes, no secret algorithms deciding your worth.
Signal Over Volume
Curation beats the firehose. We surface the best tactics and protect your attention - because more noise was never the problem.
Play the Long Game
Trust is the moat. We will never sell rank or let anyone pay to skip the line. Pay-to-win breaks trust, and trust is the entire product.
Read our community guidelines →What we're building
Growth-Hackers.com isn't a course, a job board, or a lead-list. It's the reputation layer growth marketing never had - made of a few connected parts:
The Growth Hacks Feed
A Product Hunt for tactics. The community votes; verified results rise to the top. Your firehose, finally filtered to signal.
Browse the feedCut CAC 38% with a referral loop
Sample hack · ✓ Verified format
Submit the first real hack →
Free · community-voted
Illustrative preview — sample tactic shows the format.
The Playbook Vault
Every winning hack, templated and ready to run - with the numbers, the steps, and the operator who proved it.
Explore the Vault →The Directory
Verified growth marketers and agencies, ranked by results and community vote. Find the right person, not the loudest one.
Open the Directory →Leaderboards
Reputation, earned in the open. You climb by contributing and shipping wins - never by paying to skip the line.
See the Leaderboard →SEO Profiles
A profile that works while you sleep: shareable, indexed, and built to turn your reputation into inbound.
Claim yours free →Why now
Three things are true in 2026 that weren't true a few years ago.
Growth marketing became a real discipline - without a real credential.
There are more growth operators than ever, and no trusted way to tell the great ones from the loud ones.
Trust got scarce.
Founders have been burned by yesterday's playbooks and $2K courses that promised the world. They're done guessing. They want proof.
AI made noise cheap and signal precious.
When anyone can generate a thousand "growth hacks" in an afternoon, verified results and earned reputation are the only things worth trusting.
The category is forming right now. The reputation layer will get built. The only question is who builds it - and who gets in early.
We're early - and that's the point
Let's be straight with you: as of mid-2026, we just launched. The feed is small and growing. The leaderboard is wide open at the top. The category isn't crowded yet - and we'd rather tell you that plainly than fake a crowd we haven't earned.
That's not a disclaimer. That's the opportunity.
The people who claim their profile now aren't just joining a platform - they're claiming a rank before the crowd arrives, seeding the tactics everyone else will learn from, and helping set the standard for what "verified" means in growth marketing. Early reputation compounds. It always has - just ask anyone with a low-numbered profile on the platforms that came before us.
If you're the kind of operator who backs claims with numbers, there's never been a better time to be here than right now.
The people building it
We're operators, not observers. Between us, we've run the campaigns, blown the budgets, made the hires that didn't work out, and shipped the ones that did. We're building Growth-Hackers.com because we wanted it to exist and it didn't.
We're building in the open - which means we hold ourselves to the same standard we ask of you: show the receipts, earn the trust, play the long game. We'll introduce the full team here by name as we come out of stealth - no borrowed credibility until then.
Founder & CEO
Ex-growth lead · 10+ yrs operating
Spent a decade doing growth in the dark - buried dashboards, unrankable wins. Building the home we always wished existed.
Head of Product
Community & marketplace builder
The best operators we know are invisible. That's the bug we're fixing - a product where merit, not volume, decides who rises.
Founding Engineer
Verification & trust systems
Verification isn't a feature here - it's the whole point. So it's the first thing we built, and the thing we'll never compromise.
This seat is open
We're a small founding team looking for operators and builders who back claims with numbers. Come build the category with us.
See open rolesWant to help build the category, or just say hi? Get in touch →
Not here to build a profile? You're still in the right place.
If you're a founder, agency, or brand, Growth-Hackers.com is where you find proven tactics and the verified people who ran them - so you can stop guessing on playbooks and hires.
Come build the category with us
Growth marketing finally has a home - where the work ranks, not the title, and every claim comes with receipts. The category is being built right now. Be in it.
Free to join. No pay-to-win. Receipts over rhetoric.