$273/Day From Niche Directories (Built With AI)

Frey Chu builds niche directory websites using Claude Code. His portfolio generates $2500–3K+/month from display ads and lead generation.

📝 From a recent interview…

I built this directory in 4 days and it literally started from a raw massive unorganized CSV of over 70,000 rows that I scraped for the entire country.

I probably saved over 2,000 hours in what would have been manual data cleaning, manual data enrichment.

His process: scrape business data from Google Maps, clean it with AI, verify websites, enrich listings with details and images, then build the site.

Total cost for one directory: under $250.

The niches are deliberately boring 👇

Luxury restroom trailers. Boring but awesome niche. People are spending $1000, $2000 a day renting these out for weddings.

Other niches he mentions: liquidation stores, daycares with cameras, funeral homes, senior living.

One directory (New Mexico State Fair) earned him $20,000 with minimal maintenance 🤑

Monetization is flexible – display ads, selling leads to businesses, or charging for premium listings.

Pick a boring niche, scrape the data, let AI do the hard work 😎

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