Atlas Directory

The brief

The travel niche I'm in didn't have a good directory. I had the data, I needed the listings site with paid placements and SEO.

The build

1. Mon

   Kickoff. Defined listing schema, category taxonomy, paid-tier perks.

2. Tue

   Auth, schema (listings, claims, reviews, payments), import script for seed data.

3. Wed

   Listing pages with full JSON-LD, category index, search.

4. Thu

   Stripe paid placements, claim flow, admin moderation queue.

5. Fri

   Deploy on atlasdir.com, sitemap submission, robots + llms.txt.

Stack

• · Next.js 16 with SSG (every listing is a static page)
• · Cloudflare Pages + R2 for images
• · Postgres D1 + Drizzle
• · Better-Auth for listing owners
• · Stripe subscriptions for paid placements
• · Programmatic JSON-LD per listing (LocalBusiness)
• · Sitemap split per category

Outcome

2,400 organic visits/mo by month 3. 18 paid listings at $99/mo. Ranked #1 for 6 head-term keywords.