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John Rush

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891 total appearances

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

But then you'll have a lot of problems in the future when you have to do the other marketing work because everything has to be done manually. And for example, if you want to find somebody on Upwork who will write certain pages for you and publish them, Now, you can't do that because it's all in code. So you will get some Google Doc, and you will convert that into code. So it's all huge hustle.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

But then you'll have a lot of problems in the future when you have to do the other marketing work because everything has to be done manually. And for example, if you want to find somebody on Upwork who will write certain pages for you and publish them, Now, you can't do that because it's all in code. So you will get some Google Doc, and you will convert that into code. So it's all huge hustle.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

But then you'll have a lot of problems in the future when you have to do the other marketing work because everything has to be done manually. And for example, if you want to find somebody on Upwork who will write certain pages for you and publish them, Now, you can't do that because it's all in code. So you will get some Google Doc, and you will convert that into code. So it's all huge hustle.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And that's why it's, even if you know how to write code and you're great at that, it's 100% better to go with no code, any tool. But I obviously go with my own tool, the Unicorn platform. And let me switch the tab to the other tab now. All right, so here we are.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And that's why it's, even if you know how to write code and you're great at that, it's 100% better to go with no code, any tool. But I obviously go with my own tool, the Unicorn platform. And let me switch the tab to the other tab now. All right, so here we are.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And that's why it's, even if you know how to write code and you're great at that, it's 100% better to go with no code, any tool. But I obviously go with my own tool, the Unicorn platform. And let me switch the tab to the other tab now. All right, so here we are.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

It's a unicorn platform, like simple website builder that I pivoted into directory builder, I would say, because most directories or most websites built on unicorn now are directories, and that's interesting. And so we go here, and we say Create, and we find the directories. So here are the templates. People always try to overcomplicate things.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

It's a unicorn platform, like simple website builder that I pivoted into directory builder, I would say, because most directories or most websites built on unicorn now are directories, and that's interesting. And so we go here, and we say Create, and we find the directories. So here are the templates. People always try to overcomplicate things.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

It's a unicorn platform, like simple website builder that I pivoted into directory builder, I would say, because most directories or most websites built on unicorn now are directories, and that's interesting. And so we go here, and we say Create, and we find the directories. So here are the templates. People always try to overcomplicate things.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

So I have this Discord group called Directory Makers, and a guy asked me today, like, I want to make a directory for lawyers, and I want to have this and this and this, like 20 features. And I say, at the first... launch of your directory, the only thing that's important is the items. If you put the out, the ratings, and everything, it will be empty because there will be no ratings.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

So I have this Discord group called Directory Makers, and a guy asked me today, like, I want to make a directory for lawyers, and I want to have this and this and this, like 20 features. And I say, at the first... launch of your directory, the only thing that's important is the items. If you put the out, the ratings, and everything, it will be empty because there will be no ratings.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

So I have this Discord group called Directory Makers, and a guy asked me today, like, I want to make a directory for lawyers, and I want to have this and this and this, like 20 features. And I say, at the first... launch of your directory, the only thing that's important is the items. If you put the out, the ratings, and everything, it will be empty because there will be no ratings.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

There will be no users. So all those features, they don't make sense for a new directory. So the only thing that makes sense for a new directory is a simple page with a name and items. And everything else should come later in the month or even a year. So that's why I always start with very simple directory first. So usually it's, for example, this one. So this is probably the simplest one here.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

There will be no users. So all those features, they don't make sense for a new directory. So the only thing that makes sense for a new directory is a simple page with a name and items. And everything else should come later in the month or even a year. So that's why I always start with very simple directory first. So usually it's, for example, this one. So this is probably the simplest one here.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

There will be no users. So all those features, they don't make sense for a new directory. So the only thing that makes sense for a new directory is a simple page with a name and items. And everything else should come later in the month or even a year. So that's why I always start with very simple directory first. So usually it's, for example, this one. So this is probably the simplest one here.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

So I pick this. All right. And I can actually simplify my work. So I can ask AI to generate the directory for me.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

So I pick this. All right. And I can actually simplify my work. So I can ask AI to generate the directory for me.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

So I pick this. All right. And I can actually simplify my work. So I can ask AI to generate the directory for me.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

Oh, really? That's why I do things really fast. People always ask me, what's your routine? And I'm like, I use AI for everything. But I do moderate everything, right? So I understand the quality and I add it. But I always use AI to start off many of these ideas for people who want to...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

Oh, really? That's why I do things really fast. People always ask me, what's your routine? And I'm like, I use AI for everything. But I do moderate everything, right? So I understand the quality and I add it. But I always use AI to start off many of these ideas for people who want to...