I Asked AI for a Money-Making Website (It Built One in Minutes) — Transcript

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1. 0:00Some businesses were here before AI and they're  going to be here long after AI. And one of those
2. 0:04is a boring old directory site. And if you don't  know what a directory site is, they're sites that
3. 0:09look like this or this or even ugly ones like  this. I'm going to build one of these today
4. 0:13using an AI tool that will pit a bunch of AI  models against each other so I can be sure that
5. 0:19I'm getting the best one. Not just that, but I'm  going to ask the AI tool, which type of directory
6. 0:24should I even build? because I don't know what  type of directory is the most likely to get a lot
7. 0:29of traffic, therefore make me a lot of money. I'm  going to use this tool to do all of that. It used
8. 0:33to take a developer months worth of work, even to  build a simple directory website, but today we can
9. 0:38do that in minutes. And believe it or not, there  are still a zillion directory opportunities out
10. 0:43there because there's so many niches that people  aren't even thinking about. What I love about
11. 0:47directories is that once they're built, they're  quite passive. They basically run themselves.
12. 0:51You can monetize with ads, subscriptions, or you  can collect leads organically and sell them to the
13. 0:56businesses that are listed on the directory site.  But enough talking. Over the next few minutes,
14. 1:00I'm going to build one live, share my screen,  show you the prompts, show you how to do it,
15. 1:04connect payments, and publish it to the internet  all throughout the course of this video.
16. 1:11So, to start, we're going to go to this website  right here, chatlm.abacus.ai. This is the tool
17. 1:17that enables us to use all the different models  in one chat interface. and even make them compete
18. 1:22against each other so we can be sure to get  the best output. The link to this is in the
19. 1:25description, by the way. So, we're talking chat  GPT 5.6, Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.5, Grock, DeepSeek,
20. 1:32and a bunch of other models you've probably never  heard of. And we can access any of them just by
21. 1:35hitting this dropown, going to chat, and then we  go to this dropown and picking the one that we
22. 1:40prefer. Or we just pick route LLM, and that will  automatically make all of them compete against
23. 1:46each other and just give us the best possible  output. Now, if we want this tool to be an AI
24. 1:50agent to go out and use these models and actually  do stuff for us, then we're just going to hit this
25. 1:54dropown and click agent. And it costs about 10  bucks a month, which is less than what any of
26. 1:59these individual tools would charge you for the  same pro models that you get right here. Okay,
27. 2:03but we're going to start with the old standby,  which is chat GPT 5.6. Boom. Right there. Here's
28. 2:09my prompt. What's an underserved local directory  niche I could build and monetize? Give me one
29. 2:13specific niche, who pays for it, and how it  makes money. Okay, super fast. commercial
30. 2:18kitchen equipment repair directory. Not anything  I would ever think of, but for some reason,
31. 2:22Chad GBT is seeing signals out there that tells it  that this is an underserved niche directory idea,
32. 2:27but we're not content with this. We're going to  give it the same prompt. We're going to paste
33. 2:30it. We're going to go Opus 4.8, which is one of  my favorites right now. Same prompt. Hit enter.
34. 2:36Estate cleanout and senior downsizing directory.  Never would have thought of that either. Now,
35. 2:40let's go to my least favorite model right now.  Sorry, Google. Gemini 3.5. Same prompt. Hit
36. 2:47enter and remember how I feel about these ideas  doesn't really mean anything. I haven't done
37. 2:51enough research to know which of these three ideas  is the best. Okay. Gemini says aging in place and
38. 2:56accessibility home modification directory. Another  very random one I never would have thought of. So
39. 3:02commercial kitchen equipment from Claude. Claude  thinks this niche is attractive because it avoids
40. 3:08the crowded generic local business directory.  That is true. Oops, sorry that was Chat GBT that
41. 3:12said that. And Claude thinks the estate cleanout  directory is underserved because people that are
42. 3:18searching for this tool are grieving, overwhelmed,  and time pressed, and they want a trusted short
43. 3:24list not to vet 15 different companies. All  right, I like that. And then Gemini thinks
44. 3:28that aging in place as a directory is underserved  because well, it didn't it didn't tell me why. So
45. 3:34call it confirmation bias, but telling you I  don't really like Gemini. But hey, if it wins,
46. 3:38it wins. Okay, let's pick a winner. So, we've got  one B2B directory, businessto business. That one's
47. 3:43from Chad GPT. Commercial kitchen equipment repair  directory. It's not going to be consumer searching
48. 3:48for that. So, I like that because it's higher  dollar value. You can usually make more money
49. 3:52in business to business businesses, but it's also  harder to get traction there. It's harder to break
50. 3:57through to a decision maker. That's the trade-off  that you make. And the other two directory ideas
51. 4:01are consumer ideas. These are just individuals,  normal civilians, searching for these things,
52. 4:06which typically make less money, but it's easier  to break through to consumers. There's no decision
53. 4:10maker. You're talking directly to the person  that will be paying you. Okay? Call it bias,
54. 4:15doesn't matter. I really like this estate  cleanout and senior downsizing directory
55. 4:19the most. Maybe because I just have a good friend  that's making a lot of money going to estates and
56. 4:26basically selling all the leftovers. So, an  estate sale will happen and there's always a
57. 4:31bunch of stuff left over. and he will go in like  the day after it ends and say, "Hey, you know,
58. 4:37all this stuff left over, I'll give you 200 bucks  for it." And usually they're just happy to get
59. 4:40rid of it because what are they going to do with  it? They're going to have to list it individually
60. 4:43on Facebook Marketplace. That's his whole niche  and he makes a lot of money doing it. He travels
61. 4:47around the country doing that. So, we're all  biased creatures. I know that this is growing
62. 4:51like crazy. There are 10,000 baby boomers retiring  every single day and their kids, their millennial
63. 4:56kids like me, need to sell their parents stuff as  they unfortunately move on to the next life. So,
64. 5:02I like Claude. I have a friend that's doing  this and I like selling to consumers more
65. 5:06than businesses. But let's do one more step. I'm  going to go to trends.google.com. I'm just going
66. 5:10to search for the phrase estate sale over the last  5 years. Okay, let's go 2004 to present. Okay,
67. 5:16so it dropped from 2004 until about 2024 for some  reason. And now it's heading back up. I don't know
68. 5:23why it would have been dropping. That's kind of  an interesting phenomenon that I didn't expect,
69. 5:27but it's going back up. So, I like that. But while  we're pitting these models against each other,
70. 5:32let's put Google Trends terms, search terms  against each other as well, side by side by side,
71. 5:37so we can see what the demand shows on the search  side of things. Right here, I'm going to type in
72. 5:42a much, much, much more niche term, commercial  kitchen equipment repair. Of course, there's a
73. 5:48ton more people searching for the term estate  sale than commercial kitchen equipment repair,
74. 5:53but we're still going to get an accurate view  of how all three of these terms are trending.
75. 5:58So you can see this is basically not moving the  needle at all. There's very very few companies
76. 6:04searching for this term. So it's probably not fair  to compare these against each other. Let's just
77. 6:09search equipment repair. Okay, so that's trending  upwards. The red line right there. And then over
78. 6:13here we're going to search aging in place. All  right, let's go ahead and delete the term estate
79. 6:17sale so we can get a more accurate view of this.  So equipment repair is booming, but this could
80. 6:22be heavy equipment repair. It could be anything.  But clearly, these two terms are both growing more
81. 6:28than estate sale. But of course, it's not really  fair to do estate sale because we're not looking
82. 6:34for people that are searching for an estate sale.  We're looking for people that are about to host
83. 6:38an estate sale. So, I just searched for the term  how to host an estate sale. And the search volume
84. 6:43basically went from nothing to 100 over the last  month or two. And if you search host estate sale,
85. 6:48it looks the same. So, I realized I just went  back to the actual output from the prompt and
86. 6:53we're talking about estate cleanout help. So, when  I searched for the phrase estate cleanout, it is
87. 6:58the best looking chart that I've seen thus far  in all of the estate categories. Like, it's just
88. 7:02looking really, really spicy right now. So, we're  going to stick with estates. So, here's my prompt
89. 7:07now. Compile 20 real estate cleanout businesses in  the greater Dallas Fort Worth area. For each one,
90. 7:14give the business name, category, phone, and a  oneline description. Put it all in a table. Now,
91. 7:19very important that on this one I choose route  LLM because it's going to choose the best model to
92. 7:24do the heavy lifting because this prompt is is a  much heavier prompt for lack of a better word than
93. 7:29the ones that we had just done. Boom. Okay, so it  looks like we've got some junk removal businesses,
94. 7:34some cleanout businesses, most the junk removal  businesses because honestly, how many like estate
95. 7:40cleanout businesses are out there? Which, by the  way, that's probably a really good business. It's
96. 7:44kind of like what my friend's doing. I mean,  it only got 11 or 12. 11 and I asked for 20.
97. 7:48So what's cool here is you can see the thinking  that it did and then you can regenerate the output
98. 7:54to this prompt using whatever model you want. So  I'm going to have it regenerate it with cloud opus
99. 8:004.8 cuz it's my favorite. Quick note on this, you  want to fact check all of these listings before
100. 8:06we publish them on a directory website. I love  getting an output from a model and then using
101. 8:10a different model that's unbiased to fact check  everything in that output. Right? In other words,
102. 8:16is the phone number for this junk removal business  accurate or the address or the website, etc. So,
103. 8:21Claude wins again. I actually got 20 results this  time because I regenerated with Claude. I'm going
104. 8:26to do a control find for the word clean out the  noncleout commercial care. Okay, estate pros. Not
105. 8:34only did I get 20 this time, but they seem to be  more relevant because come on, Dallas Fort Worth
106. 8:38has 8 million people. Surely there are 20 relevant  businesses that do something like this. And what's
107. 8:43cool is even if we get abacus to regenerate the  output, we don't lose the original one because
108. 8:47I still want to see what chat GPT 5.5 can do  here, but if you just click these arrow buttons,
109. 8:52you can see all of the different regenerations.  So, let's go ahead and see what GPT 5.5 can do.
110. 8:57And then just for fun, let's see what Fable 5 can  do, cuz that's the best right now in my opinion. I
111. 9:02just realized my prompt does something stupid. 20  real estate cleanout businesses. That is different
112. 9:06than like an estate sale cleanout business. I  meant to say 20 real estate. So, I'm going to
113. 9:12redo this al together and I I will probably get  a better output. Remember, when it comes to AI,
114. 9:18garbage in equals garbage out. And I'm make  mistakes here just like anyone else. And we don't
115. 9:22edit those out. Remember, I can still use the  output from these other prompts even if it had a
116. 9:26bad input because there are still good businesses  in those tables. But I'm going to go ahead and
117. 9:32give it a better prompt that says compile 20 real  businesses that do estate sale cleanouts in the
118. 9:38greater Dallas Fororth area. And the rest is the  same. So, we're going to do that with route LLM
119. 9:42to see which model it uses. Side note, I'm not  sure if you've heard the phrase token maxing,
120. 9:46right? But you should do that. It's basically  using uh AI models that are way more powerful than
121. 9:53what you need done, right? You want a restaurant  for date night, use Fable 5. Why not? If you're
122. 9:58paying for Fable 5, use the heck out of it for no  other reason. So you can better learn these models
123. 10:03and like the nuances of them and how to prompt  them and what their outputs look like as compared
124. 10:08to other models until you get to the point where  you're hitting your limits regularly. Token max
125. 10:12the heck out of these models. Okay, here's my  output here. We've got 20 results this time.
126. 10:17DFW. I want to see what Fable 5 can do. So I'm  going to put the same prompt there and then choose
127. 10:23Fable 5 from the drop down instead of Route LLM.  But I really like what Route LLM gave me here.
128. 10:28This is making me realize that there there is a  big opportunity for these estate sale cleanout
129. 10:32businesses. Most people aren't going to think  to hire a junk removal business. They hear junk
130. 10:37removal and they think hoarder. My mother's not  a hoarder. My grandmother's not a hoarder. Like
131. 10:42they almost might find it disrespectful to hire a  junk removal business to get rid of those last few
132. 10:47things that didn't sell from her estate sale. They  might be china cabinets. They might be valuable.
133. 10:51They might have been impeccably maintained over  the last century. So, we don't think to go to
134. 10:55junk removal. It's not junk. it's their prized  possessions, right? So, the naming of a business
135. 10:59really, really matters how you position yourself.  And if you call yourself the estate cleanout pros,
136. 11:04then you're probably not going to get many calls  for a hoarder house, a drunk removal house. You're
137. 11:08going to lose that. But the trade-off is that you  are going to be known as the guy or the gal for
138. 11:13estate sale cleanouts. And what's better about  the estate sale cleanout business? I know this
139. 11:18video is supposed to be about directories, but  we're going to tangent just for a minute because
140. 11:20the ADHD is flaring and we we give into that.  What's better about an estate sale cleanout
141. 11:25business than a junk removal business is that  you get more stuff that you can sell, right?
142. 11:29Which is what a lot of junk removal businesses  to do to make a lot of their profit. They get a
143. 11:34bunch of stuff that's like, "Huh, we're not taking  this to the dump. We're selling this on Facebook
144. 11:37Marketplace." They make a ton of money doing that.  But in the estate sale cleanout business, that's
145. 11:42mostly what you get. Stuff that you can resell.  So, you're getting paid, not getting it for free,
146. 11:46but you are getting paid to take things that you  can sell. That's called a negative cost of goods
147. 11:51sold big business or a negative COGS business and  it's a beautiful beautiful thing. You're getting
148. 11:56paid to get paid but we're here for directories  passive business not active sorry. Okay so here
149. 12:02was the route LLM output. Here's the fable 5  output. If you do a control find for the word
150. 12:08estate look at the Fable 5 output. Okay. And let's  just look at the business name. One, two, three.
151. 12:13It's pretty clear that there are more results  tied directly to estate sales and not junk removal
152. 12:18because look, state liquidators, rare find estate  sales. Actually, I take that back. The outputs
153. 12:23look pretty similar. I'd be curious if route  LLM used Fable 5 on its output as well. Okay,
154. 12:28so we've got plenty to work with. Now, we want  to use an AI agent to do the heavy lifting for
155. 12:32us cuz we don't know how to do the heavy lifting  in this case. No pun intended. Estate sales,
156. 12:36China cabinets. Sorry, it was dumb. Okay, we're  going to go back to Abacus. We're going to hit
157. 12:40this purple button. We're going to hit this  dropown. go from chat to agent. But wait,
158. 12:45we've got to get that table to give it to it.  We're going to go back here. We'll use Fable 5.
159. 12:49And we just click this little download button in  the top right. That's it. We don't need to prompt
160. 12:53it again. Okay, we got agent. Here's our prompt.  Build a directory website that lists estate
161. 12:58sale cleanout businesses. Include a searchable  homepage, category pages, and individual listing
162. 13:03pages with a photo, description, and contact  info. Prefill it with the list I attached. Add
163. 13:08a paid featured listing upgrade with a Stripe so  a business can pay 30 bucks a month to appear at
164. 13:13the top. Okay, we've got agent. We're going to hit  the plus button. Upload from computer. Get the CSV
165. 13:19that I just downloaded from the other chat window  and hit enter. I'll get started on building that
166. 13:24directory website for you right away. This is the  part that used to take a developer weeks or even
167. 13:29months. And we could do like a DFW directory  for state sales, but what the heck? Let's go
168. 13:34nationwide. If after a few months we see that  a lot of these uh searches are coming from the
169. 13:39DFW area, then we can always spend 10 bucks, buy  another domain name, put the letters DFW in there,
170. 13:45and make this more niche down. I don't think  there's a need for that. I think this is already
171. 13:49so niche that we want to go more broad on their  geography, right? If the industry is very niche,
172. 13:55then the geography should be more broad. If  the geography is very broad, like for instance,
173. 14:00a small neighborhood in Dallas or a small suburb  of Dallas, then the industry should be more broad,
174. 14:06right? But some industries and or geographies have  enough search demand to where you can go niche on
175. 14:11both. I just don't think estate sale cleanouts is  one of them. So, the agent has a few questions for
176. 14:15me. So, I'm going to put one, the name is going  to be estate cleanout pros. Two, should businesses
177. 14:21be able to submit their own listing? Yes. Three,  categories. Are there specific categories you'd
178. 14:27like to organize listings by? Infer from the data.  Four, when a business pays for featured listings,
179. 14:33where should payment confirmation emails be  sent? Now, that's one I like to answer. I'll
180. 14:38put in my email here. Five, color scheme. Let's  do clean and minimal. And I like that it gave me
181. 14:44the option to just say go ahead and it would guess  all five of my answers for these. But it only took
182. 14:50me about a minute to give it those answers. Okay.  Now, it needs Stripe API credentials from me. And
183. 14:57if you don't know what that means, it basically  just means it needs to know how to talk to my
184. 15:00Stripe account so I can accept money, which is the  most important part of this whole endeavor. So,
185. 15:05it gives me instructions on how to find that.  Thankfully, I've done this a zillion times.
186. 15:09I'll show you how to do that. And then it just  needs my secret key. So, log into my Stripe
187. 15:13account. It takes 30 seconds to create this.  I'm going to go to the search bar and do API
188. 15:17keys. I'm going to hit this plus button, create  secret key. powering an integration you built.
189. 15:23I'm going to use my touchpad. I'm going to name  it estate cleanout pros. Okay, there's my key.
190. 15:30That's my secret key. And this is my publishable  key. We're going to go there. Submit. And voila,
191. 15:38we have payments connected. Okay, that's done.  Now it's actually building the website. All right,
192. 15:44I'll build this full feature directory website  step by step. Let me start by reading the CSV
193. 15:48data in the style guide. Okay, so if we wanted to  really scale this, we need a lot more directory
194. 15:53businesses because this is only DFW. So to do  that, we go back to Abacus. I personally, you can
195. 15:59do whatever you want, would choose Fable 5 because  that's the one that just will do the most work and
196. 16:04it will work the longest to get you the output  that you really need. And I would just basically
197. 16:08give it the same prompt and just say nationwide.  And then even tell it specifically there should
198. 16:13be over a thousand listings here. Sometimes you  need to tell the model how hard it needs to work
199. 16:19because it's always going to default for less work  because it doesn't want us to be token maxing. It
200. 16:23wants the company wants to save money, right? And  the more we token max, the less money. Anthropic,
201. 16:28Chad, Gemini, whoever makes, but they're funded  by VCs. They're trillion dollar companies. They're
202. 16:34doing fine. A lot of stuff going on here that I  don't understand, but I know that when it's done,
203. 16:38I just need to click this button up here on  the top right. Deploy. It's generating all
204. 16:41the images for the site right now. You couldn't  pay me to understand what Ubuntu sandbox means.
205. 16:46Ubuntu sounds like a Mongolian appetizer or  something. Oh, okay. We got some pictures here,
206. 16:51some good images. Okay, we're done. The web  app is ready. Let's see how it looks. Okay,
207. 16:57estate cleanout pros. Get featured. Submit  listing. We've got a search bar right here. Okay,
208. 17:02we've got filter buttons here. Click on that.  Boom. Filter buttons work great. Submit free
209. 17:07listing. Get featured. Cool. All right. And then  this is the Stripe integration that we're looking
210. 17:12at live. That seems to work. Loads really fast.  It's responsive. If we want to see how it looks on
211. 17:18mobile, looks great. Presentation view, desktop,  etc. Cool. Go to the search bar. Just do junk.
212. 17:24Let's go ahead and click deploy. We'll put it on  an abacus domain name for now. Boom. Done. Okay.
213. 17:30So, if we want to see how it looks on the actual  internet, we can go here and we'll type /admin.
214. 17:35Then it gave us a password to enter. And then  here's what it looks like on the back end. We
215. 17:40can see how many um listings there are, how many  featured, how many are pending to be featured,
216. 17:46and there's only 20 cuz we only gave it 20, but it  would upload as many as we gave it. Now, let's add
217. 17:50some more images to this because the ones it gave  me are decent, but I want some better ones. Okay,
218. 17:56we're going to go click on image up here  at the top and take the URL and say make a
219. 18:01hero image for this site because if you need  images for your site or for ads or whatever,
220. 18:06it's built right here into Abacus. So, we can have  it choose the model for us, but I love GPT Image
221. 18:112. I think it's the best image model on the market  right now. So, I'm going to purposely give it a
222. 18:16very light prompt because I want to see how well  it thinks. Okay, let's talk about how this website
223. 18:21and other directory websites like it can actually  make us money. Number one, featured positioning,
224. 18:26featured placements of the businesses that we list  on the directory. We're listing these businesses
225. 18:31on the directory without their permission.  We don't need to ask their permission because
226. 18:34we're doing them a favor and we'll leave it on our  website forever for free. They only need to pay if
227. 18:40they want a higher placement and it only really  makes sense for them to pay for higher placement
228. 18:44once they're actually getting some leads and some  traffic from our website. Another way we can make
229. 18:48money here is just by banner ads. Now, this is  probably the lowest friction, most passive way
230. 18:53of making money on most websites, but it's also  like the lowest and worst use of these clicks,
231. 18:58of this valuable attention that we're able to  garner here. So, that's the trade-off you're
232. 19:02making. Another thing we can do is just kind of  collect leads from consumers that needed an estate
233. 19:07sale cleanout, and they can all go to us directly  instead of to the businesses in the directory. And
234. 19:12then we can reach out to the businesses in the  directory and sell them to the highest bidder.
235. 19:16We could literally email all of them at the same  time and say, "Hey, I have this lead. It's in this
236. 19:21neighborhood. We think it's worth this much. Who  wants it?" And just let the bidding begin. I think
237. 19:26directories are going to be more important than  ever with the advent of AI because it needs more
238. 19:32good, knowledgeable, wellorganized sources to  pull from, and a directory is a super efficient
239. 19:37way of getting that done. Okay. Uh, it looks like  it created a polished hero image that matches the
240. 19:42look and feel. I like how the colors match. Looks  good. Cool. We can add that right to the website.
241. 19:47Now, if we wanted to make a video, that's just  as easy as an image. And you can choose the
242. 19:52model that it uses, cling, seed, dance, etc.  We don't really need to do that right now. A
243. 19:56pitch deck. If we wanted to raise money for this,  you could do that with a couple clicks. Slides.
244. 20:01You just choose that little connector right  there. You can invite teammates to collaborate
245. 20:05on these projects with you. Think about it.  If you paid for all of these premium models,
246. 20:09it cost between 20 and $200 a month for them each.  But Abacus is only 10 bucks a month total for
247. 20:15usage of all of these combined. If you want to use  Chat LLM by Abacus AI, check out the link in my
248. 20:21description. They support the channel. I use them.  They're awesome. Go build something today. Not
249. 20:26next week. Today. There's never been a better time  in the whole history of this wonderful universe.