An anonymous blog about weird places became a $18.3M company.
The listings were free. The places couldn't pay a cent.
The money came from something else entirely:
Brilliant Directories lets you export your data. Not your website. That one gap is the whole comparison.
We wrote the deep dive on GeoDirectory vs Brilliant Directories: own vs rent, data model, AI, pricing, and the SaaS that closes the gap.
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How we built wp-rankings.com: on GeoDirectory. 60,000 listings and 16 million rows. What scaled, what broke, and why you should never let AI redesign GeoDirectory's search and sort.