What they did
The author, who writes as xiaoyuan, wanted backlinks for a product site without doing the form filling by hand. An earlier attempt with a local agent on a Mac mini was slow and kept stalling, so they moved the job to Grok Bot, which has its own browser, its own email inbox and a scheduler. They gave it a list of directories exported from spreadsheets, and it removed ones already in their tracker, kept the free ones and ranked the rest by tier and Domain Rating. A prepared kit held the product name, taglines and descriptions in fixed lengths, screenshots, stock answers and a short list of things never to write. Every weekday afternoon the bot takes the next five sites, checks the product is not already listed, skips anything paid, Google-login-only, needing an article or an app store, then registers with the support address, stores the password in a local file and submits with a UTM-tagged link. It logs each result to the tracker, posts a daily card to the team chat through a webhook and rechecks indexing every Monday.
How it went
The first three days produced 7, 5 and 9 submissions, 21 directories in all, with nothing spent. The listings that went live included G2, StartupBlink and TinyLaunch. The early blocker was email: the support address was a Cloudflare forward to a single inbox, so verification codes reached the author rather than the bot and some one-time links expired before they could be passed on. A small Cloudflare Email Worker that forwards each message to both inboxes fixed that, and the bot then read codes within seconds. The author now only reads the daily card and handles the few items marked for a human.
Worth knowing
The author kept anything touching money, a phone number or identity out of the bot's hands, so it only submits free listings and skips sites that want a LinkedIn company page or a phone. Many free listings come with conditions such as embedding a badge. Results so far cover listings, not traffic or rankings.