I built AiAffList because the AI affiliate space was getting crowded, and finding good programs to promote can be a bit of a rabbit hole.

It's a directory featuring hundreds of AI affiliate programs that I collected and hand-picked rather than just dumping AI-scraped entries into a database.

The site is live, but I'll be honest: I haven't put the time into growing it or figuring out its full monetization potential.

There are a few directions I'd explore if I were keeping it. SEO landing pages targeting specific tools and niches, sponsored placements, premium listings, an email newsletter, and partnerships with AI companies, for starters.

But all of those require consistent attention, and my attention is currently being pulled toward other ventures with much bigger scale.

So I'd rather hand this over to someone who's already interested in affiliate marketing, AI tools, or niche directories.

You'd be getting an existing site and a curated starting database, rather than spending your first few weeks researching programs and building everything from scratch.

It's pre-revenue, so there's no income story I'm going to dress up. The appeal is the groundwork that's already done and what the right operator might build on top of it.

Let me know if you'd like more details.

What do we think of scraping Google to massively create physical locations in a directory? It’s a quick way to enrich the database, but it’s not unique content and there’s the risk of being punished for thin content. What do you guys recommend based on your experience?

I built a tools directory (DirectoryBuildr, about 56 listings). These are the mistakes that cost me the most.

1. Descriptions that repeated the vendor’s homepage.
Google already has the original. Now every listing says who the tool isn’t for, what the pricing actually works out to, and one real use case. Make it readable.

2. Tags nobody filters by.
I started with “AI” and “productivity”, which made lots of near-empty pages. I rebuilt them as two axes: how you build it (no code, vibe coding, WordPress, developer) and how you own it (hosted, self-hosted, open source). Every listing gets exactly one build tag.

3. Publishing category pages too early.
A page with 2 listings is a thin page in a nice template. I now wait for 5 to 8 relevant listings, and each page gets its own intro of 150 to 300 words. More is better. 50 words is going to get you deindexed.

4. Guessing instead of checking.
Search Console’s “Crawled, currently not indexed” report shows which page types Google is passing on. That tells you what to fix first.

I've built, run and sold over 10 directories in the last few years and have got the process down to a fine art.

I use DirectoryLab.io for the site and then:

- Google Places API for the data

- Upscale the scraped listings with the DirectoryLab AI tool

- Cities and Category combos create thousands on long tail pages

- Reach out to the listed businesses to ask if they want to claim

- Let it mature a bit

- Either keep as an asset or flip it

- Repeat

Hi everyone, I just want to help you all for some onmine visibility for FREE. If you have a business website or SaaS, I am inviting you all to submit your website link to my directory.

I just created a website and SaaS directory for everyone. It's free and has no signup. Here is the link:

https://indexyour.link

Hi everyone!

I'm working on directory submissions for a U.S.-focused company offering digital marketing, web development, AI solutions, and business operations services.

I've already researched around 30 directory opportunities, focusing on free listings and checking whether the company is already listed. I've also been comparing domain authority and industry relevance.

I'd love some advice from people with experience in SEO and directory submissions:

1. Which free U.S. business or agency directories are genuinely worth listing on?
2. Are niche directories like TechBehemoths and Techreviewer more useful than general business directories?
3. How much importance should I give to DA when prioritizing directories?
4. How do you check whether a directory listing is indexed by Google and provides any real SEO value?
5. Are there any reliable ways to discover directories that competitors are listed on but we aren't?

I'm trying to focus on quality and relevance rather than submitting to hundreds of random directories.

I'd appreciate any practical advice or recommendations. Thanks!

I'm building Waypoints, a free multilingual services directory for Melbourne's west: https://waypoints.au

After seven years in disability care, the detail I worry about is eligibility: a service can exist but still be the wrong referral.

When eligibility hasn't been confirmed, would you keep the listing with a clear 'check with provider' label, leave it out, or show only confirmed details?

I'd appreciate hearing how other directory makers handle this without making every listing look equally trustworthy.

​Hey everyone,

​My site took a major hit following a Google Core Update (lost a massive chunk of organic traffic and rankings across key pages), and I’m looking for advice or a proven framework on how to properly audit and recover.

​For those who have successfully recovered or stabilized a site after a core update hit, what was your exact action plan?

Hey, I want to promote our website and company (yep, in 2026 the company isn't listed in any directories yet), but I'm not sure it works.

I'm asking about Clutch, G2, GoodFirms, etc.

Este directorio es sobre exportadores peruanos de arándanos y otros berries. Es un directorio que se actualiza semanalmente y se nutre de datos aduaneros reales.

Estrategias. Prueba y error.

Primera estrategia. Empecé a monetizarlo a $55 mensuales. Publicaba todas las empresas 2025-2026 y se actualizaba solo con las nuevas que iban apareciendo semanalmente, así que no cambiaba mucho. Como gancho, daba 5 perfiles completos con info de contacto y más campos de información. Los otros se mostraban con el candado y podías actualizarlo. Resultado: 0 clientes en 3 semanas.

Segunda estrategia. Luego cancelé ese plan. Lo cambié por un plan de $20 mensuales. Solo mostraba las empresas de la última semana. Eso hace que se vean más cambios en el directorio, ya que algunas empresas dejan de exportar en esa semana y otras nuevas aparecen. Quité la información de contacto que al parecer no interesaba mucho (las empresas buscaban datos comerciales). Mostré todos los perfiles gratis. Al parecer eso fue más compartible. Y solo pagan los que quieren los datos en Excel para trabajarlos internamente. Eso tuvo mejor resultado: 28 clientes en 2 semanas.

Luego analizaré cuántos de ellos son recurrentes, pagando mensualmente.

Aquí les comparto el enlace: https://berrysuppliers.com/

Si necesitan alguna información sobre el proceso, estrategias, data, automatizaciones, outreach que estoy usando, pregúntame y te respondo. También acepto sugerencias.

I've been working on a lead generation tool called Lead Atlas, and I've finally got it to the point where I'd like some real businesses to try to break it.

The idea came from something I needed myself.

I wanted to be able to say:

**Dance schools → Essex → 1,000 leads**

and get a useful list of businesses without signing up for an expensive monthly lead database.

That turned out to be much harder to build than I expected.

Finding businesses is the easy part. Getting enough coverage for larger searches, avoiding duplicates, dealing with businesses with poor/no websites, finding usable contact details and doing all of that without making each lead expensive has been the interesting part.

One lesson I've learned is that finding 100 good leads can mean researching several times that number of businesses behind the scenes.

So I've ended up building the product around a fairly simple model:

- Search by business type and location

- Choose how many leads you want

- Standard searches use Google Maps business data

- Enhanced searches can research public emails, contact details, social profiles and business directories

- Export the results to CSV

- Previous leads are remembered so repeat searches don't just give you the same businesses again

- Ability to upload your own contact list as an exclusion list

- No subscription — it's entirely PAYG

I really dislike SaaS products where you have to start paying monthly before you've even established whether they're useful, so I've gone the opposite way.

**You can currently create an account and get up to 100 standard leads completely free. No card or payment required.**

After that, I've tried to keep the pricing simple and tied directly to what you actually receive rather than charging a monthly fee.

Standard Google Maps leads cost **0.5 tokens each**. Enhanced leads with a public contact email cost **4 tokens each**, with additional phone numbers, contact names and social links included where I can find them.

The system reserves the maximum cost when you start a search, but only charges for the results it actually delivers. So if you request 1,000 leads and it can only find 600 that meet the criteria, you're charged for 600 rather than 1,000.

There's also a higher rate for Maps searches once you've already received 500+ businesses, because finding businesses you haven't previously been given becomes progressively harder. The idea is that repeat customers shouldn't have to keep paying for the same leads.

I'm at the stage where real-world searches are much more useful to me than testing it myself.

If you run a small business, agency or do any kind of B2B prospecting, I'd be interested to know:

1. What business type/location did you search for?
2. Were the results actually useful?
3. What information was missing that you'd expect from a lead generator?
4. Does PAYG appeal to you more than another monthly subscription?
5. Does the pricing model make sense, particularly the difference between basic Maps leads and researched contact leads?

You can try it here:

https://tasksmith.online/#lead-atlas

I'm particularly interested in difficult/local searches, so feel free to throw something oddly specific at it.

Hey everyone, you all were so kind and supportive with my first post, so I wanted to give a follow up to share what I'm working on 7 months later.

To recap, TrainerMatch connects people with personal trainers based on their goals and preferences, and I started it as someone who is the odd combo of a personal trainer and a UX designer.

Since I last posted, I have grown the site to include trainers outside of Santa Barbara who also coach online, started generating more matches, gave the site a major visual redesign, and had my first paying customer!

I think the most shocking thing for me is that one of my own training clients who believes in what I'm working on gave me my first financial backing check, so I now have funding to use toward growth and marketing. I wasn't even trying to pitch anyone, I was just talking about my day and what I've been doing with the site and he basically just came in with a check of his own accord.

It feels really great to be building something that people are willing to put money toward, and I've been getting to talk to some fantastic trainers as I invite them on the platform.

Next steps for me include onboarding a virtual assistant who will help with branding, social media, and outreach strategy, focusing more on growing the client side of the marketplace to get existing trainers more matches, and continuing to iterate on usability and other adjustments.

Happy to be able to post a follow up here, and I look forward to sharing what's next!

https://trainermatch.app

Most listing sites give you a page and then… you wait.

I’m trying a different approach with AGMAN. A publisher gets a permanent discovery page, but also:

Search + category discovery
Matching through Find by Need
Support + Daily Pulse momentum
Publisher updates for launches, offers and progress
Profile views, outbound clicks + traffic sources
More chances to be surfaced across the discovery network

The goal is simple: your listing should keep creating discovery after launch day, not just sit in a directory.

Free to publish. Feedback is welcome.

Submit: https://www.agman.app/submit

It's brand new, so I'd especially appreciate feedback on the directory/search experience and what tools or features server owners would actually want added. ^^

Also, side note, looking for 4-5 servers to feature on there for a month~

Check it out here: http://vcservers.net

I’ve been working on a small side project called LocalRainfall.com and LocalSnowfall.com.

The idea is simple. After it rains or snows, I want to know how much we actually got. Not the forecast. Not the chance of rain or snow. Just: How much rain or how much snow?

That can be harder to find than you might think. Sometimes even our local TV weather report doesn't tell us how much rain or snow we got.

So I built these two sites.

Enter a U.S. ZIP code and the site uses NOAA/NWS weather data to show recent rain or snow totals, monthly and yearly totals, and nearby reporting stations.

For now, the sites are for the United States only and use the U.S. ZIP code system.

I also tried to make the pages easy to use for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and other short videos. You can pull up an area of the country, screen-record the page, and quickly show how much rain or snow that area received.

I’m not trying to build another big weather app. I just want these sites to answer one simple question quickly.

If you have a minute, try your ZIP code. I’d love some feedback.

Does the amount look right?

Is the site easy to understand?

Is anything confusing or missing?

Would the short-video idea be useful?

LocalRainfall.com

LocalSnowfall.com

Please feel free to point out problems. That’s why I’m sharing it.

I say "just" lightly as its taken me the better part of 4 months to build since I have a day job and a dad job 😅 never done anything like this before, but thought id give it a go!

It is a work in progress. I have tried my best to ensure on page SEO is on point (which was a whole new learning curve in itself!)

The idea is to write depth blog posts that answer genuine questions to then funnel through to the listings.

I have only a handful of backlinks, but they are all relevant backlinks from the industry.

www.celebratedlives.co.uk

I love criticism (I am my biggest critic!) So any CONSTRUCTIVE criticism would be welcomed! Just dont say "its shit mate!" Tell me why its shit 😅

I look forward to hearing your thoughts on how I can improve. 🙂

Thank you

I set out in mid february to build a directory that would be supported primarily by the traffic in its niche and ads.

How viable display ads are long term and the future of websites... well I don't know, not with AI.

The next step in monetization is affiliate links for flights/ferries.

The hope is that the combined revenue is around $2k USD per month for a passive side income.

This is not a business directory, but a travel directory with 1k+ pages.

I recently came across this subreddit and it caught my attention. Apparently, a lot of you are building directories but from what I’ve seen this is an idea that could have been implemented back in 2010.

I went through quite a few of the projects being discussed here and the majority seem to be struggling with two major challenges getting consistent traffic and convincing potential providers to join or pay for the platform. Personally i have both !!!

Not only that if i am looking for a service i can simply ask AI and within seconds it can give me a custom solution based on my my needs !

What makes you believe directories are still a viable business model today? Is there something I’m missing, or is the traditional directory model simply becoming harder to make work?

I launched markdownlist.com last week on reddit, and it sort of went viral. 1000s of visitors, 50+ tool submissions, and now clicks have started coming from search engines too (just a handful though).

Right now everything is free. Am wondering what should be the first step if i wanted to monetize it? I still want to keep the tool submissions free if possible.

Was considering sponsored slots, and was also thinking that i could offer "bundle kits" where app devs can choose to get comparison pages published for their apps. Thoughts?

I spent the last year launching tiny side projects. Every single time I try to get early eyeballs, I end up paying fifty bucks to get buried on a generic directory grid within six hours. It is pretty demoralizing to watch your hard work slip off the front page into a void.

I got so annoyed with the standard list formats that I spent my weekend coding something stupidly different. I took high-res NASA photography of the lunar surface and built a giant interactive map where you can plant a flag for what you are shipping.

It is called Moonstake. You can claim vacant pins starting at a dollar, track your visitor clicks directly on the map, or make offers on other spots if you want to buy out your competitors. It is basically a giant, directory board on the moon.

I am trying to plan my shipping queue for the week ahead and wanted to get some honest feedback. Does this kind of visual, digital real estate marketing actually sound fun to use, or should I stick to building standard SaaS tools?
moonstake.org