Greg Isenberg

Sometimes those rights are available.

If you look at the terms of services of some websites, those are available.

These are small local businesses.

They might not even have a terms of service.

So yeah, just so you know, there is some risk associated with scraping images without the rights.

Before we get to the next step, I just want to make a quick note about your quote unquote crappy stuff.

other website, I will say the logo on this website does slap.

You've got this mascot and he feels very approachable and interesting.

I don't know if the audience feels the same way.

I am feeling a bit of a loss of...

A little character in the new fancy Apple-style website.

If you've made it to the end, you're probably bought into this idea around a directory could be a really good entry point into building something that doesn't require a lot of my time.

It could be high value if it's a really good niche.

Then I could build a micro SaaS to go and really amp up monetization and enterprise value.

But I suspect there are some people who are not bought in.

So for the people that are naysayers about directories and creating a directory right now, specifically in this moment in time in 2026, what do you have to say to them?

100%.

I think in general, no matter what startup idea you're working on,

You can't expect it to be overnight in general, no matter what.

Business model, marketplace, social network, mobile app, directory, micro SaaS.