33 Viral Hook Formulas from Studying 10,000 Hooks
A rapid-fire swipe file: 33 fill-in-the-blank hook templates, each paired with a real viral clip showing the formula in action.
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A rapid-fire swipe file: 33 fill-in-the-blank hook templates, each paired with a real viral clip showing the formula in action.
A start-to-finish walkthrough of building an Awwwards-level portfolio site with Claude Design 2.0's new canvas-editing tools, then handing it off to Claude Code and shipping it live on Vercel.
A ten-year editor breaks his three-pass audio workflow — vocals, sound effects, music — into checklists anyone can run without becoming an audio engineer.
Layla Pomper hit the same course-revenue ceiling for years, then tripled her monthly income by layering a paid service on top of the course she already had.
A commercial and film editor distills two decades of cutting into nine rules for making an edit feel emotional instead of just technically clean.
A former art director for Apple, PlayStation, and Nissan walks through the exact Claude Desktop workflow he'd use to go from zero to a paid $27 product in a single sitting.
A hands-on walkthrough of Impeccable, the open-source Claude Code design skill, and its new Live Mode and Worlds features for turning AI-generated web design from generic to genuinely good.
A nine-month-old Karpathy prediction about AI memory becomes Anthropic's new overnight consolidation feature — plus a free routine that replicates it for anyone not on an enterprise plan.
A live walkthrough of the exact four-tool free stack, plus a paid AI-VFX layer, one creator uses to let Claude Code cut, caption, and reshoot her Shorts.
A creator pulling $300k a year from a 50,000-subscriber channel plans, films, and edits one full YouTube video live on screen in three hours — after thirty straight days of forcing himself to do exactly that.
A solo breakdown of graph engineering: why one AI model researching, writing, and grading its own answer is worse than jobs, arrows, and a human gate.
Digital-product coach Maria Wendt breaks her seven-figure playbook into seven concrete rules, writing each one on a flip chart live as she explains it.
A step-by-step build of a Claude Code agent that takes any URL, redesigns it with premium components, generates matching imagery, and ships two finished variants — then gets deployed as a chat-triggered agent.
Inside a four-step Claude + Higgs Field MCP loop that reads a rough cut against its own transcript, flags every mismatched b-roll moment, and renders the replacement clip automatically.
Andrej Karpathy says the best way to brief an AI coding agent is a messy ten-minute voice ramble — so a creator tests it live by building a naturopath website from a single, uninformed viewer request.
A free, open-source Remotion project turns Claude Code into a director that layers AI art, AI voice, and code-driven animation into a chess lesson, a kids' story, and a paper documentary from one codebase.
A performance marketer whose clients have generated over $7.8 billion in sales lays out the exact sequence he'd follow if he had to rebuild his skills from nothing.
A start-to-finish Fusion walkthrough for turning flat images into a layered, camera-driven 3D scene, built twice on two different photo sets.
A six-year streamer opens his actual OBS project and names every plugin still doing real work behind a five-camera, dual-canvas setup — not the "100+" from the title, the roughly two dozen currently installed.
A founder-level teardown of Block's new agent-chat app — the auto-approval default, the identity-key risk, and why the real question isn't which AI agent wins.
A folder system, not another prompt list — how to make Claude or ChatGPT write in your voice by giving it a home base of context instead of a one-off prompt.
A five-step system for turning Claude from a search bar into a documented, skill-running member of the team.
A hands-on walkthrough of Buzz, the free chat app where AI agents debate each other, write code directly in channels, and share pooled local compute with your community.
A former detective turned YouTuber over 40 argues that teaching everything for free is the one habit quietly keeping loyal, grateful viewers from ever becoming paying clients — and names the six inherited beliefs that keep creators doing it anyway.
A tea-brand founder and her husband run three cameras through one long day, batching roughly a month of short-form video and handing it off fully organized to their editor.
An interview with an early power-user on why the open-source Slack-for-agents app is going viral, then a full walkthrough of running a personal AI agent team inside it.
A walkthrough reverse-engineers Higgsfield into a Claude Code skill that calls the same aggregator APIs directly, for cents instead of a monthly fee.
A walkthrough of wiring Claude Opus 5 to live SEO data through DataForSEO to rebuild Semrush and Ahrefs' core reports for the price of API credits.
OpenAI's voice mode became a persistent agent that keeps working while it talks and follows you across every window — a level-by-level walkthrough of what it can actually do.
A 17-minute walkthrough of a no-cold-call outreach method: find local businesses with a visible review gap, send a permission-first message, record a free two-minute Loom audit, then close a flat $297-a-month Google-review automation.
A whiteboard breakdown of the three-part messaging framework — repel, dissolve, invite — that turns content itself into the sales call.
A screen-recorded walkthrough of turning one long prompt — or one saved skill file — into a fully rendered Vox-style paper-collage explainer, script through voiceover, using Claude Code and the Higgsfield MCP.
Greg Isenberg gets a live, screen-shared tour of Jack Dorsey's new agent-native chat app from an early user — and presses him on whether it actually beats Slack.
A five-step AI pipeline — generated painting, AI video, frame extraction, dithering, and free deployment — that turns a couple dollars of image and video credits into an animated, expensive-looking website hero.
A four-step system for building an Instagram account from zero: set up the algorithm once, pick one easy format and stick with it, build a reusable AI brand kit, then run the same weekly loop until it compounds.
A dating-content creator who built his channel on approaching strangers in the street maps out the plan he'd actually run if he woke up single tomorrow — and it's built on purpose and patience, not the pickup habits that made him famous.
A coach who replaced most of his team with AI reduces every online coaching business down to three roles: the leader who sells, the scientist who builds systems, and the artist who builds the brand.
An Anthropic engineer quietly revealed that Claude Code deleted over 80% of its own system prompt — and shipped a built-in /doctor skill that does the same cleanup on your CLAUDE.md, skills, and settings.
A YouTube strategist admits that the framework she teaches for chasing overperforming videos is quietly making every channel sound the same.
Anthropic published an official prompting guide for Opus 5 — five rules, tested live by building a real website in under three minutes.
Eleven repeatable rules — from reprogramming the Instagram algorithm in ninety seconds to a five-question interview script — for building a personal brand without guessing.
A Claude Code creator mines his own chat history into a personal test pack, then builds a slash-command benchmark that tells him in one run whether a new model release is actually worth switching to.
A creator's real-time demo of ChatGPT's new voice mode as an always-on dispatcher for AI agents across every device he owns.
A frame-by-frame breakdown of the six-scene, code-only pipeline that turns a text storyboard into a Netflix-vs-Blockbuster reel — no After Effects, no manual keyframing.
A reaction breakdown of the paid 'faceless YouTube channel' course ecosystem, where the taught workflow for going viral is, in the gurus' own words, to steal.
A GoHighLevel coach reviews a community member's real outreach Loom line by line, rewriting the opener, the demo, and the close.
An unscripted screen recording of a real operator's Claude Code sessions — three isolated terminal setups, a tiered planner/executor model stack, and a text-approved autonomous agent — running an eight-figure marketing business in real time.
A 15-minute breakdown of eight productized AI-consulting offers built on Anthropic's new Record-a-Skill feature — and the one habit that decides whether you make $300 or $5,000 a month from the same skill.
Instagram is testing a way to link reels into a named, bingeable series — and the growth tactic behind it already works without the feature.
A creative strategist walks through the exact research pipeline — reputation analysis, review mining, AI-built personas — behind winning Meta ad strategy for brands like Grüns, Oats Overnight, and Rhode.