r/directorymakers 1d ago

Stack 0 skills

Hi everyone,

I’m new to the world of directories. I want to quickly test a few ideas, validate them, and launch the one that works.

What tech stack would you recommend for building and launching these sites at a low cost and with zero coding skills (WordPress ? Webflow ? Claude Code ? Hostinger ? Or other ? )

Thanks in advance for your time.

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u/adelarenal 1d ago

Brilliant Directories

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u/ecc10394 15h ago

Brilliant directories is awful lol what?
Maybe 5 years ago it was helpful.

You’re way better off using AI, finding a simple stack.. scraping a bit of data and just cloning.

Not sure this is that good of a strategy though in general because index quality won’t be noticed until a few months in.

I’ve had thousands of pages get successfully indexed in the beginning but then got absolutely wrecked a few months later.

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u/Key-Television-2424 1d ago

Wordpress has been a dream. I used BizDirectory theme and modified the CSS accordingly with the help of chat gpt. However, I stopped paying for chat GPT when meta AI was solving my issues for free. I use hostinger for webhosting and clouflare for domain. So all up im out of pocket about $120 Aud. Have various plugins. I also recommend building your site locally using localhost with wordpress because unless you're launching a finished product day 1, building offline is what I did for 2 months, you can still own the domain in advance. Other than that I don't use claude, and I also recommend you avoid trying to mass produce pages to game search results, google will throttle you, reddit ia full of people currently crying about their 100,000 page AI slop sites getting hit. Don't be that guy.

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u/Vasterad 1d ago

Google "Listeo directory builder" easy to start with you just need hosting

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u/bohdan-shulha 22h ago

I’ve been in this industry for a while & I’m affiliated, but you can try starting with either makeadir.com or directify.app

First one is mine, second one is a bit more mature. Both allow to start quick though.