We have liftoff 🚀 took @johnrushx advise on directories and now we're flying after i managed to get it indexed it started growing like crazy by the day

I really underestimated forced Google Indexing. Turned on indexgoogle.com for internal testing 2 weeks ago and saw this today. Magic. I had doubts, but after this, I'm pretty happy. It's been a challenge to get Google indexing API to work for an infinite number of pages due to all sorts of limitations, but finally today Google granted us with large API quota, so we are ready to launch indexgoogle.com next week. Gonna send invites to the waitlist (10 a day). Tell me if you wanna get access earlier. Btw, seobotai.com users are getting this included in "PRO" subscription. On a side note, we've made insane progress on seobot. I'm 100% bullish on our plan on being able to generate articles that humans enjoy reading and Google enjoys ranking high. I repeat: we're not in the garbage content business. We spend almost a dollar on each article, cuz we do numerous cycles of content generation, improvement, research and more. P.S. this is my newsletter >>>100xfounder.beehiiv.com

Tomorrow, I'm coding listingbott.com. 8-12 hours left to finish. It's AI + Robot + Human for quick directory listings. Web directories = first users and traffic. I'm building it to save time listing my products. 168 users are on the waitlist. If it helps others, cool!

I'm sick of Vendor Lock 🤕 The future is Open Source, Self-Hosted and One-Time. Cloud is great, but only when we have a choice to download the data and selfhost. A curated a list of 694 self-hosted software tools. 50 categories, Free & Proprietary. → hostedsoftware.org

A new platform for → makers to promote products → directories to earn from sponsors A directory-ads-network. 1st, I'll add my own directories. Then we'll get some sales in. It'll attract other directories to join. I'll Build, Buy, or Partner up with 100 directories that: → have a strong domain rating → steady SEO growth → many backlinks → at least 10k visitors per month → growing traffic Makers will pay for clicks only. Completely transparent and full control. Can start with $5 or spend $5000. Up to them. Their product will appear across relevant directories until they get the number of clicks they paid for. The aim is to make it affordable and simple for founders to boost and promote their products. Equally important goal: I want to help directory owners earn from their directories too. I'm targeting a cost of $1 per click. This price beats all others out there today - by far. And here's something even better: we'll only show the sponsored products to relevant audience, making each $1 click hopefully bring in someone who will end up signing up. I'll even offer pay-for-signup price. Don't know the math yet, have to run pay-per-click for a while to see what would make sense based on data. Let me know if you'd use this as a maker or join as a directory owner 👇 I'll pre-sell first $10,000 clicks with zero comission to early supporters (reply&repost).

Turned on SEObot for our own site seobotai.com. Just 7 days later, it's getting organic clicks. Take this query for instance: "robots.txt security best practices" → seobotai.com/blog/best-robot… This article has real value for readers. You still think AI can't do this?

According to SW, allgpts.co had almost half a million visitors in just November → 427,900 visits → Avg visit 3 min → USA 25%, Brazil, France... → drove 7,140,000 clicks to chatGPT 😵‍💫 AllGpt was top 6 websites in the world reffering to chatgpt in Nov. ChatGPT had 1.7 Billion visitors then. 0.42% of the traffic This made me want to put an extra sprint into AllGPTs.co, since it's pretty much best directory in the world today, and I feel good about it, not every day this happens, so I have 3 killer features I'm adding to this tonight on my coding marathon. → I found the way to rank GPTs, it's genius idea, once you see, you will be blown away. It's same as when google introduced website ranking that changes the whole search. Today there are 20k GPTs, 99% of them is trash. I know how to sort them really well. → user auth: you can log in to rate, review, bookmark gpts → I'm adding more AIs. Today it's only OpenAI. But in fact, there are 10 more AIs out there with GPTs, and Im adding them all with the genius ranking feature. → ALL GPTs is turning into Google for AI agents. Let's fuc*ing go!

🔥 Big builder update coming tomorrow for → unicornplatform.com More changes before December ends. "Moving super fast" is our pace now. I'll not quit until we've built the best website builder in the world for busy founders! Whatever it takes. Upcoming features 👇 → 10x quicker nav between sites/pages/blog/articles. → Build multi-page websites with ease. You'll enjoy it. → Search in the gallery feature added. → Adjust custom css/js for each component with an instant preview. → Stay in the builder, tweak any settings of the page or site, and view an immediate preview. It's like top UX tools such as Notion. → Extensions: Add analytics, banners, widgets, and more from our app store in a single click without messing with code snippets. → Advanced components are available like search, filters, directories and testimonial walls etc. Even create and sell your own components! Also we're adding: - New templates! We're keeping current with changing times. - App makers can earn money by selling their apps on our appstore. - Designers can also make money by publishing their templates for sale Coming soon: - CMS featuring directory controls! - Launch complex websites on unicorn - Auth features -Payment systems These updates will roll out weekly or biweekly over the next months. Our mission is simple: → Create the easiest-to-use website builder on the market. → Make it powerful, specifically for founders and not just designers. → unicornplatform.com

Big change is coming to SEO. We're testing @seobotai, and it's impressive: - Fully analyze your site - Study competitors and their top content - Take chat commands - Auto-link articles - Generate images - more soon Now you, a solomaker, alone can take on big SEO teams.

Remember I Said I'll Launch 50 Projects In 2024? #1 → Index Rusher. I found that Google doesn't index over 50% of pages on my sites. Maybe it's the same for you. It hurts SEO a lot. To fix this, I built this tool. Now, after a closed beta test, it's open for all! → indexrusher.com > There isn't a free tier. > No monthly plans either. > Just a Life Time Deal. > Pay once and use forever." Here's what the current version can do: - Pushes all new pages to Google. - Sends daily updates. - Collects stats on pages: indexed, submitted, not found and errors. Future: - An AI will analyze your site's stats. It will give you detailed instructions on fixing issues. Not just general advice but specific steps for your page. Some solutions could be as simple as copy-pasting. There are bunch of alternatives. No ricket science here. Why are we different? > one-time payment vs monhtly. > I know how to build kick-ass AI agents which get the job done really well. > this will be the "smartest" indexing tool on the market. I have no idea what exactly will the new features be here. But remember: I build every tool for myself first. The fact that I sell it is just a bonus. So I'm pretty motivated to make it really smart and good so that all my other product would benefit from using Index Rusher. Important: it's very early version. There might be some bugs. But this is why I offer it with a good discount to early adopters. Be nice, Your goal is to try and help me with feedback, so that we make the best indexing tool in the world for you and me so that our SaaS tools, directories and website keep growing with more organic traffic from Google. I will go sleep now, if something doesnt work, just send me DM here, I will read and fix it once I wake up in 6 hours. P.S. as promised, there is 50% discount for @seobotai PRO users (the $99 plan). Ask for it in DM.

🚨 New project alert → for solopreneurs Artists got labels. Actors and athletes got agents. Authors got publishers. But us makers? We love writing code, but marketing and other non-coding tasks? Not so much. I got this brilliant (or not?) idea → COFONDR ↓ Here is what it does: → accounting → org → customer support for you → website → design → boring paperwork (privacy policies, t&c and etc) → adds you to the popular listings → gets perks from aws and the rest for you → helps with 1000 small things that you hate to do, but have to Who is it for: busy solo founders. Price: $99 a month Request access → cofondr.unicornplatform.page * the landing page & the waitlist has been build in 100 seconds using unicornplatform.com * as always, I will build it all 100% #buildinpublic → follow me @johnrushx to see the progress

Full Story of IndexRusher.com From Idea to paying clients in 85 days. → Day 1. Idea While working on SEO, I realized it takes weeks or months for new pages to be indexed by Google. Keyword research quickly validated the problem. Over 1M monthly searches for this topic. Most articles on the top were saying: go to GCS and manually submit the URL. It's fine for small sites, but once you have 20+ pages, this is time-consuming, and for me time = money. I ended up picking "Index Google" as the keyword with 10k-100k monthly searches and it was free on the GoDaddy .com domain. → Day 20. Waitlist. You all know this feeling, when you come up with an idea, buy a domain and never actually build or launch anything on it. I've done it many times too, I have more than 50 domains just lying unused. So in this case it took me 20 days to sit down one night and build a landing page with a waitlist using @unicornplatform. I launched it the same night here on Twitter and went to sleep. I connected Google Sheets to the waitlist, but no email notifications. So I went on to do other stuff for a day. → Day 22. Omg, 80 users. 2 days after I opened Google Sheets and saw 80 records. I was smiling like a baby who got an ice cream. → Day 30. Validated. On this day, the waitlist was over 200, so I was convinced that the demand had been validated. So I started building the product. I used built it on @marsxdev using @shadcn ui kit and 1 junior dev. → Day 45. Redesign & Fu*k-up. I decided to outsource the redesign to a professional designer. To make it look cool, add a real logo and more. Until this day the whole site was made to me in 5 min at night. The designer did a good job, and I published the new design. The day after I opened a Twitter notification and saw a hot discussion with my name in it. Apparently, the designer copypasted a line from one of the competitor sites, and the competitor posted it here. To be honest, I was completely embarrassed. I apologized and quickly removed all the blocks and redone the site myself again. After this case, I always review every site that's made me a vendor for plagiate, to make sure it won't happen again. → Day 60. Violation of Google. It turned out, I couldn't use “Google" in my domain name as many pointed out, so I had to buy a new domain. I ended up buying indexrusher.com. I like the "rushing" and also it's funny that it's connected to my last name. But more importantly, semantically, it says what it does, so it's great both for users and Google SEO. The sad part here was that I've built good organic traffic on the original domain and now I'd have to start from zero again. → Day 70. Google API Quota. It turned out that Google APIs for this have very strict quotas. To make this work for more than 200 pages in total a day, I had to dance around with the autocreation of Google API service accounts. I also contacted Google about it and they bumped up my quota. I was surprised that they actually responded and did it so quickly. Being such a large and slow corp. → Day 85. Beta Launch. I launched it on Dec 31st. Just before the NY eve and got my first sale. I was super happy, but things didn't go as planned. → Day 86. Bugs. I have tested it on my own sites, which all run on @unicornplatform and it worked fine. But the real user came in with a website on another provider that had a slightly different sitemap format. It took a while to figure this out and fix it. I always feel so bad when my software has bugs and clients are waiting for a fix. It's like paying for your shopping and your card is out of money and everyone has to wait until you load more money into it. → Day 87. Serious Bugs. Since indexrusher.com runs on MarsX SaaS OS, in this particular case, it was sharing the server with @seobotai. Which has insane traction and lots of articles being generated daily. Which is cool, but... They both used the same server and the same job queue. The job queue had millions of records and was growing. It made the webserver super slow, so it was impossible to use indexrusher. I removed the signup button from the website, put the waitlist back again We quickly figured out a solution, which was to create another server that only runs jobs and use the main server only for a web server. It took a week to get it done. After the fix, things became really fast and sleek. → Day 90+ Traction & LTD. Here I was ready to push it to more users, so this was what I did. I posted it here. I did several viral Reddit posts which drove traffic to it too. And there was a waitlist ofc, which I started notifying about the launch. My main idea for getting traction here was that all other competitor tools are charging per month, but this is not the type of product users are willing to pay monthly for. For a given user and given website, in most cases, they have to run the indexing tool just once at the start and then maybe a few more times when they add a bunch of blog articles or new pages. There is value, but not high enough to pay $10-$100 for it every month. People are tired of all these small subscriptions which sum up into large sums. → Figure out unique positioning I imagined the following persona: an indie maker, a startup founder, who has launched several products and plans to launch more. Subscribing for an indexing tool for such a persona would be an overkill in most cases. Also even if subscribed, I bet they would cancel in 2-3 months because eventually, they'd stop making new articles and all existing pages would be indexed. So there is no need for the indexing tool anymore. So I was convinced that Lifetime Deal would be a game-changer in this case. → Experiment I did a pretty interesting experiment, for all early adopters, I asked them to add me to their Google Search Console so that I could do a quick free SEO audit and come up with all low-hanging fruits for better SEO and fixes. While doing this I realized one thing: almost all sites have SEO issues. These are obvious and easy to find/fix for those who know all this well, but not obvious at all for the site owners. This random act of kindness actually opened up a whole new roadmap for indexrusher here. → Next Steps I realized that indexrusher should not just submit pages to Google, but actually try to act as an SEO advisor that does all that I did doing the SEO audit. So we added new features find broken urls find broken sitemaps and 30 more low-hanging fixes that can change the entire SEO game We’re still working on these, and most likely this work won’t ever end. → Early adopters. Pricing. I decided to set a lower price for those who came in early since I knew we would have bugs and issues, so I warned them about these risks. Once we had the first batch of early adopters, I raised the price for the next batch, which is soon to be filled up and I will raise the price again. It makes sense to me because the further we go, the more value and lower risk the users have. → Traction I get organic growth, signups and paying clients daily. Most of my users surprisingly come from Linkedin, less from Twitter. I had just 2 posts mentioned it on Linkedin. I don't know yet why is this the case, but it made me reconsider Linkedin as a social network. Now I'm back there weekly. It seems like LinkedIn is gonna be very big for b2b again, as it used to be until it was ruined by spam. I also launched it on reddit: r/sideprojects. Which brings good traffic too. → SEO My overall traffic strategy is organic SEO, and it’s slowly kicking in. I'm running @seobotai for this. Since I had to buy a brand new domain at the last moment, I’ve lost 2 months of domain rating, which means that I will get organic traffic somewhere in April. Until then, it will mostly be promoted by word of mouth and by me on X. Overall, I’ve built this tool for myself, I use it for all my products and it works just great. If you have several websites which have more than a few pages in each, give it a try. Since I’m the biggest user of my own tool, I will just keep making it better forever both for myself and all of my users. The End. → indexrusher.com

Open Source eats the software. I made osssoftware.org filtered by > winners of PH > best dev tools on DevHunt > recently active on GitHub > most internet backlinks > most mentions as "alternative to .." 👇301 open source alternatives → supabase.com - firebase → documenso.com - docusign → cal.com - calendly → plausible.io - google analytics → devhunt.org - producthunt → ai.meta.com/llama - chatgpt → papermark.io - docsend → godotengine.org - unity3d → ghost.org - medium → joinmastodon.org - twitter → rowy.io - airtable → sentry.io - error tracking → n8n.io - zappier → appsmith.com - retool → clickhouse.com - bigquery → gitlab.com - github → penpot.app - figma → jenkins.io - devops → forem.com - circle → posthog.com - mixpanel → dub.co - bitly → opencart.com - shopify → typesense.org - algolia → appflowy.io - notion → webstudio.is - webflow → typebot.io - Typeform → passbolt.com - 1Password → @shadcn - tailwind ui See them all here →→ osssoftware.org/open-source-… Or see by categories →→ osssoftware.org If you have a great tool you think I should add, submit it on the site or send me dm or reply to this post.