i want to talk about why i built seolabs. but to do that i will tell you a story that might be very familiar to you if you are a builder.
i first worked with a team to build out quarry - an application that takes podcasts and turns them into short form content. we launched after three months of development and surprise. no sales.
then i worked on notelify, a live meeting transcription and summarization tool. this had no vision, was not shipped quickly enough, and 0 distribution. also failed.
then i had the great opportunity to work on notello with aidan gollan. notello creates concept maps from your notes and lets you generate quizzes and flashcards, plus chat with your notes using ai. this worked out better but we spread the features too wide and the distribution was also lacking.
everything that i built had two main problems. a properly defined problem being solved, and a plan for distribution.
i spent most of this summer searching for ways to find ideas and ways to market them.
that's when i stumbled upon danny postmaas 89 dollar seo course and was hooked.
there exists an oil field of dormant ideas online that people have not discovered yet.
you can find exactly what people are searching for and specifically find ones with low competition aka easy to rank for on google, and then make a solid seo content plan after some research and bam you got an idea and essentially free distribution plan.
We're building the future of SEO content strategy with AI-powered tools, and going through the course and trying both free and paid seo tools, i noticed something.
firstly many steps in the course could be automated and secondly. all useful seo tools are priced for agencies not developers (meaning they are way too expensive).
that is the gap that seolabs is filling. a more budget friendly alternative that is designed with features specifically for founders.