a single source, nothing corroborates it
Assemble a niche directory and let it earn or sell
Where a category has more options than anyone can evaluate, a curated list becomes the filter people rely on, and reliance is what you charge for. Built on cheap tooling it is also a saleable asset in its own right, with several changing hands once the traffic was established.
The method
- 01
Build a curated directory for a niche that has too many options, and charge once people rely on it to filter.
- 02
Treat a niche directory as an asset you can flip: assemble it on cheap tooling, grow the traffic, then sell it on.
What it returned
- $10,000
Art West's NoCodeDevs directory reached $10,000 MRR.
Duuce was built on Carrd and sold for a five-figure sum, NoCodeList was built on Bildr and Airtable then sold to Stefan Quartemont, and Joe Brown's Nucode went to NoCodeOps.
Sources
- No-Code: Custom GPTs, Getting Early Users, Million-Dollar Businesses - Trends.vcArt West · trends.vc · 🛠 How to Build No-Code Businesses · 2023-12-27
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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