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Chu: Lead Generation Businesses Will Never Go Away
“I don't think lead generation as a business is ever going to go away.”
Chu: Simple static pillar page directories can reach $2K–$10K MRR
“Again, very, very basic level one of directories, but amazing if you just want to dip your feet in, in the water and you know, get to, I would say like two to two to 10 K in MRR is definitely possible.”
Chu: APlaceForMom.com takes first month's rent or fixed fees for referrals
“And they basically have all of these kind of sneaky ways to collect information and then pass them off to these senior living homes where they collect a portion of the first month's rent or like a fixed fee for every referral that they give.”
Chu: Atlas Obscura shows little effect from Google core updates
“Also noticing very little to no effect from the Google core updates.”
Chu ranked KD 70 directory keywords on Google's first page in two months
“I've had some like programmatic directories that I've built where I've targeted keyword difficulty, 70 keywords that are getting 60,000 monthly visitors. And I've created like on a fresh domain, I was able to rank on the first page in like two months for some …”
Frey Chu: Parting.com generates over $1M annually and raised $1.5M
“This is reported due over a million dollars a year in revenue. There's some quotes that go up to five million dollars, but they even raised money. They raised 1.5 million dollars in 2021.”
Chu: Built luxury restroom directory in 4 days for under $250
“I mean, I built this in four days. Like I mentioned, I probably saved over 2000 hours in what would have been manual data cleaning, manual data enrichment, also record low costs. I mean, I would have to hire a developer to like write custom Python scripts befo…”
Chu: Crawl4AI is a free open-source crawler for LLMs
“This is an open source LLM friendly web crawler and scraper totally free, which is insane.”
Chu: Claude Code filtered 20,000 sites to 725 listings in three hours
“And then it just ran in the background for three hours. And this is really what would have taken me like a thousand hours just a couple of years back. So the result was. 20,000 websites down to 725 luxury restroom trailers.”
Chu: Claude Vision verified 700 image listings for $30 in one hour
“This cost about 30 dollars. All I had to do was go to Claude and connect my API key. Super simple. And this is the prompt that I used. I let this run overnight, but yeah, this took probably about an hour or so for 700 listings.”
Chu: Zero-backlink tap water directory reached 40,000 monthly visitors in months
“This guy named Andy in our community, but a tap water quality directory, no backlinks started it back in, I want to say November and he's getting over 40,000 monthly visitors got accepted into the media vine selling like water filters through Amazon affiliate.”
Chu: Pet DNA kit startup exited for $90M on $3M-$4M revenue
“They, I think we're only doing like three or four million in revenue, but they got acquired for like ninety million.”
Chu: Luxury restroom trailer rentals cost $1,000 to $2,000 per day
“People are spending a thousand dollars, 2000 dollars a day renting these out for their weddings.”
Chu: Initial Claude Code prompt filtered 71,000 listings down to 20,000
“And so this simple prompt got me from 71 K down to 20,000 listings.”