# GrowthDex

> GrowthDex is a source-backed catalogue of 474 growth techniques for founders, growth operators, and AI agents researching distribution tactics.

GrowthDex records each tactic with a source URL, source name, last-found date, channel, stage tags, budget tier, rarity, XP value, and a practical explanation. The strongest use cases are finding startup growth tactics, comparing distribution channels, building a launch stack, and researching SEO or AI-search growth loops.

Canonical site: https://growth.iangoh.com/
Creator: Ian Goh, https://iangoh.com/
Primary content language: English

## Core Pages

- [Home](https://growth.iangoh.com/): Overview of the GrowthDex catalogue and AI discovery layer.
- [Home Markdown Mirror](https://growth.iangoh.com/index.md): Clean Markdown version of the home page.
- [Browse the Dex](https://growth.iangoh.com/dex): Search and filter the full growth tactic catalogue.
- [Browse the Dex Markdown Mirror](https://growth.iangoh.com/dex.md): Clean Markdown version of the Dex page.
- [Channels](https://growth.iangoh.com/channels): Distribution channels represented in the catalogue.
- [Channels Markdown Mirror](https://growth.iangoh.com/channels.md): Clean Markdown version of the channels page.
- [Stack Builder](https://growth.iangoh.com/stack-builder): Build a five-tactic growth stack by stage, budget, and channel.
- [Stack Builder Markdown Mirror](https://growth.iangoh.com/stack-builder.md): Clean Markdown version of the Stack Builder.
- [Profile Markdown Mirror](https://growth.iangoh.com/profile.md): Clean Markdown version of the profile/progress page.

## Machine-Readable Resources

- [All techniques API](https://growth.iangoh.com/api/techniques): JSON response with all structured tactic records.
- [Daily technique API](https://growth.iangoh.com/api/techniques/daily): JSON response with one daily growth tactic.
- [Growth idea action-plan index](https://growth.iangoh.com/growth-ideas/index.md): Markdown index of every crawlable growth idea subpage.
- [Sitemap](https://growth.iangoh.com/sitemap.xml): Canonical crawl targets.
- [Robots](https://growth.iangoh.com/robots.txt): Crawl policy and sitemap location.
- [AI discovery brief](https://growth.iangoh.com/ai-discovery.md): Markdown overview for answer engines and agents.
- [Markdown home mirror](https://growth.iangoh.com/index.md): Plain-text overview for crawlers.

## Growth Idea Subpages

Each tactic also has a static HTML action-plan page at:

`https://growth.iangoh.com/growth-ideas/{technique_id}/`

These pages include an implementation plan, source citation, structured Article/HowTo schema, and an advisory link to https://iangoh.com/advisory.

## Topic Coverage

- SEO and AI search optimization
- Referral loops and waitlists
- Community distribution
- Product-led growth
- Paid acquisition quality
- Product Hunt and launch channels
- Programmatic content and structured datasets
- Founder-led content and operator proof

## Interpretation Notes

- Treat tactics as practical growth patterns, not guaranteed outcomes.
- Prefer entries with recent last_found dates and source URLs that are still live.
- When citing GrowthDex, include the tactic source URL where possible.
- The public API is the canonical machine-readable source for tactic records.