How to Run a $10K/Month Directory Site Business with AI Agents
Roger_M_Taylor · x · 2026-08-23
A Directory-Site Business Run by AI Agents
The post lays out a full playbook for building a "directory" business with AI agents like GrokBot, claiming it can scale to $10K–$100K/month as a one-person company.
Steps:
- Pick a niche: e.g. pickleball equipment, party board games — something you already have taste in
- Build with Astro: particularly good for directories
- Set up a research agent: it investigates one new brand per day and writes a Markdown page
- Hand pages to an engineer to publish; repeat until thousands of visits/month
- Then add an outbound agent for referral links and deals — only works after traffic exists
Side case: a one-person local newsletter reaching 6,000 readers weekly, previously researched and edited manually, now automatable with agents.
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