I Built A Directory With AI in 7 Minutes Transcript, AI Summary & Key Points

00:00 In this video, what we're gonna do is we're gonna create a directory using ai. And so I'm using a tool called Softr Here. And what's really cool about Softr is it can create a whole bunch of different applications. It's one of the biggest no-code tools. it really is great for creating these types of directories. So this is really cool 'cause you can create all these different, data sources and use these, the different templates that they have.

00:23 but what I'm gonna do is I'm actually just gonna generate it with ai. So what I'm gonna do is, these are my options of building a client portal, an internal tool, a directory, or a membership platform. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna do a directory, a directory about different email marketing tools like. A Webber kit, Xbox, Bravo, and others. that's a prompt for me.

00:54 And then, what I'm gonna do is, let's see what this, what this does. So I'm gonna click preview your app, and it's gonna be creating this. For you. Now it's given this app a name. So email magic, a directory about the different, things, and you can choose a different theme. So these are the, theme colors you can choose for this. So for this, it's, it doesn't really matter too much.

01:16 but I do want to, let's go with this modern one and let's just click generate your app. So this is just an example and you can see I'm not even two minutes into this. I already have a directory here that's gonna be generated. So it's gonna go off and do some research for me and do all those really cool things that AI can do. And here we're about two minutes in and it's created this beautiful directory for me.

01:46 And so you can see here, it's got a cover image. Discover the top email marketing tools It's got a whole bunch of tools. Now you'll notice I didn't mention MailChimp Hubspot SendInBlue, AWeber Constant contact. I mentioned a couple of those, but it's built this, for me. so this is what it looks like. And if I just click preview here, you'll see what this actually looks like.

02:08 just in two minutes what's created. So Mail Magic email marketing tools. It looks pretty good. Of course you can change this. And, here is the directory of email marketing tools. just taking a little while to, to load this. so let's go back into the studio. So it's got a search bar here. these are all block based, so I can add different blocks of different things.

02:32 Like I could add a form for people to opt in, some of these different things. let's just. Show this as an example. Okay. So I can put in here like a video and then, have people opt in or I, I can change this, this form. Obviously I can connect the, the data source, so I'm just gonna delete that block. So this is block based, so you can add new blocks here.

02:54 And make this app yours so you can copy generated data. To your data stores and start using this. if I had this data already, I could use my data and then let's say I had this in a spreadsheet, I could, use my data. But what I can do is I can actually copy the generated data and, let's just use, add a new data source let's just put it in a different account here.

03:21 So now it's copying the data that is created over to that Google sheet, so it's ready to go. the data looks something like this and the Softr makes it display something more like this. Okay. so that's cool. So let's check it out now. And, now it's got a spreadsheet I can start continuing from, and it's created, all of this, this data, right? So if I click edit, it will see that, here is the, the data source and I can, edit that data source.

03:54 So let's go in there right now and take a look at what that looks like. All right, so all I did was log into Google Sheets and you'll see copy of Mail Magic. And then the app ID here, and this is already in here, so I can start creating all the, the information if I wanna have users here. And on this tab we have the email marketing tools. So what this is this is MailChimp.

04:20 here is the, short description for it and the website, So I could change this. This is a very simple, directory. I could change this to, my affiliate link. And let's just add another record. let's say there's one called, Zappa, Zappa email service, and I'm just making that up. And now when we go back here, We're going to, refresh this and preview this And so I just need to preview it again.

04:52 So right here you can see that it's got this Zappa, email service that I just created, right? So this is a very simple directory, and we can actually customize these listing pages here as well. and, you can customize the, the pages here. so the utility pages, would need to be configured. So here's our data source. we can change the custom domain. We can even put this on a custom domain I can change the theme.

05:21 I can change the theme and the font. And what we can do is we can create a listing, page template. So I'm gonna make a page, called listing. Okay? And then on this page, I'm going to use. A dynamic block. Okay, so this is gonna be a list item, details page. That's, what I want and basically I need to connect a data source. So I'm gonna connect it to the data source that, Softr created for me.

05:55 And this is the copy of Mail Magic, right? So this is the, the one here and that's gonna ask me which sheet. And what I want to do is I want to connect it to the email tool sheet. so that, I can put the content in. so now what I have to do is I have to customize, these, so heading one is gonna be name, so you're gonna see an example of that says ConvertKit.

06:19 Okay? And this one, which is, rich text. We're gonna map this to the description and you'll see an email platform. Email marketing platforms specifically for creators. Now, if we go back here, ConvertKit an email marketing platform specifically for creators. So this is pulling it right out of that, that content and then tag, maybe we don't have tags.

06:44 so let's, we can add a column here and add in the, the tags, Okay, let's do a tag. And the option will be, free option or paid only. Okay. just randomly select a few of these. we'll do paid only. ConvertKit has a free option and AWeber has a free option. so now we go back here. what we're gonna do is we're going to have to connect this tag, but it's not gonna see that yet.

07:21 So what we need to do is preview everything refreshes and. It comes back here. So now we'll see, this is a sample record, so this is just choosing a random one of the, random, ones that we have there, and we can, map this tag. So let's just, publish this. so I need to email, verify my email before I can publish this. and we should be able to publish now.

07:52 Okay, so now that's published. Let's do a refresh here. And we still want to configure the content. There's a little, circle here that shows that what needs to be, what needs to be covered. So this one isn't mapped yet. Obvious. See now we have the tag, right? So we can actually select the tag and we can add different, as well, right? So we can add different, items here that can show up.

08:16 let's turn on the, the website because we want, be easy to people to go to the website URL and we can customize, all of this as well, right? So there's different themes for this. You can, make this look different, with some of these options here. and you can change this so there's a whole bunch of extra fields. We could have a rich text field, email here.

08:40 We could have all of these different content pieces. And so let's click publish now. Let's preview it. Okay. So right now I'm previewing this. This is a sample record so you can see MailChimp. It's got the option here for a free option. We've got the link. now we can, we will need to change, this because these don't make sense. but you can see right here that we've got it pretty functional directory looks pretty good on the front end.

09:10 And, we'd be able to add filters people could tag it from here. and all the layouts can be customized, right? So if we go back to the main page. Okay. we can, actually that's actually a listing page as well. So this is our listing page that we've created, but we can actually, change the way that, that this looks if we want. But the main thing is we've got the, the content here and we can, add a title of a subtitle, subheading.

09:40 This would be good for SEO. So we can, put a dynamic text here that would have your listing in it and, different styles, So there's different types of blogs, different types of containers that you can have. which is pretty cool. So you can, turn some of that, that icon off or just, turn off this whole, this whole section if you want, and if we go back to our homepage here, we can also customize, this list here.

10:11 This is a list block. so we can see the block type here so we can change it to. Horizontal cards. Okay. So it can look like this and we can have an image there. so this shows the, the tags and so we can change that block type. alright. So if I do the, item details, this doesn't have a lot of different options that I can, change this to. What you're gonna want to do is when you're creating your page, you're gonna want to go down here to the item details, And these are all dynamic, and so you can have different layouts

10:46 for how you want things to, to be set up. So this is a modern one. you can have the heading here and then the video here so you can actually have a video. So how we're gonna do that is. When there's the yellow circle here, this means that something needs to be configured. So we're gonna select the sheet. As you remember, the sheet is email marketing tools.

11:14 Okay? And then you see that the yellow.is here. So we need to align the content. So we need to map this to the video URL. Now what I did was. I just went to YouTube, got a tutorial for MailChimp, and I created a new column here, and then I just saved it and refreshed. And so now that's actually accessible for me to pick out of my, out of my option here.

11:41 So now I can select a video URL and actually just, didn't use, just use the same video for each of these. You'd want to, pick a specific video for that product. Something that, that really showcases it. so I've got that in. And then I also gotta configure the tag. so we've got the, the tag mapped, so I'll reap that. And the rich text, we're going to go to description.

12:07 This is just a short description. and then the text, should be the description. but the rich text actually should be something more detailed, So what I should do, and I'll just show you this again, you can just add a new column here, insert a column to the left, and I'm gonna call this long description, okay? And what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to, just use AI just to quickly show you I'm gonna go for a new chat here, and I'm going to say, write a detailed description about the pros and cons of MailChimp.

12:45 include pricing. I have Claude set on explanatory. You can play around with what option fits best for you, but essentially this is going to write a description and this is what you'd want for a long description, right? You can go through and do this for all the other options, that you have here. And then, what I would do if this were not just a test, is I would actually go through and, clean this up, make sure it's human, and make sure that the word MailChimp and other synonyms like, email autoresponder are, available

13:22 and, optimize. Obviously you'd wanna re remove this, This is pretty detailed. This is extremely detailed. so this is great for SEO content. I'm gonna have a lot of, text here that, explains about that. So I'm just gonna copy this, into the long description here. And it's in markdown. I would, obviously change that as well. but as you see here, we can, get this configured, So the key is now we go here, rich text.

14:00 we don't see that, right? So what we need to do here is to, preview, let's just publish these changes, and then I'm just gonna click refresh. And when it reloads. What I'm gonna be able to do now is, under the content, under rich text, I'm gonna select, where's the long description here. So this just might take a couple minutes to, to actually connect.

14:29 but we have published it, so let's just give it another minute, give it another refresh, and then. We should be able to find this now. Now we have the long description here. So I just tapped that in. Okay. And as you can see here, it's put it all in detail here. Now I actually prefer, connecting with Airtable. for me personally, I would, just take the template that they've created with you and upload it to Airtable, because it's.

15:01 A lot easier and friendlier to edit in the, actual cell, particularly in a long cell like this in Airtable than in, Google Sheets, in my opinion. But as you can see here in just a few minutes now, we've got a very detailed, description about this. We can publish this. We have the actual, listing page, this is what I want. And then we actually had the, this details page.

15:30 And this I actually want to, get rid of because this is just a very basic, page Of the details. So I wanted to go to the, listing. and let's publish that. Alright, now I'm gonna preview this for you and you'll see here's the homepage and here's the MailChimp. Option. And we click on that. We're gonna load this page. So this, if I press play, this will play the, YouTube video.

15:59 so you've got that, we've got the tags here. You can have multiple tags, and then we've got a very detailed page about MailChimp. and what you could do is put, at the bottom, put a link to the, to the actual listing of MailChimp, or your affiliate link. Now you've really got a site, so all you need to do, you don't need to update any pages, you just need to do the same with, let's say HubSpot.

16:24 As I said, I use the same video, but that's just because in the HubSpot, record, we need to add the, the content here. So you just add the content in your Google sheets and, that's all you need to do. You're good to go. So that's how to create a AI directory. Using Softr something that I really recommend that you start and just play around with. if you have some idea, just play around with it.

16:53 You can publish it on your own domain so all in all, this is a really. Quick way to build a directory. I hope that you've found this helpful. got some other tools about creating directories that you'll definitely want to check out. But, this was just an introduction to, to using Softr. so it's pretty cool. You can preview what it looks like on, on the different platforms as well, really easily.

17:19 so it's pretty fantastic. Anyhow, I hope this video is helpful and we'll see you in the next one. By the way, be sure to pick up my directory guide. I have a free guide on, some of the best tools to use to create a directory. You definitely wanna pick that up in the description of this video.