Generate search pages from your database with programmatic SEO

Rashid… a database product or directory product idea. You don't want to just start any kind of database or directory. You need to start those that solves a particular problem, right? Once you're building a database that solves a problem, the next step is start collecting the data. And to get the data, you can manually build it like I did at the beginning. If you're like tech savvy, maybe you can like build some automated systems and collect that data.

RashidAnd the third step would be get as much eyeballs as you can, launch it, and get the first like feedback. If you see that someone is willing to pay for it, some people are signing up, you have a good signal. And I believe for directory and database products, SEO works very, very well. So, I would focus on programmatic SEO. For us, it brings half of our revenue. And if you do it consistently, you will get there.

Pat WallsIf you are watching this far into the video, Rashid just gave up his sauce, which is programmatic SEO. Do a Google on that one. We will also have some other videos on that. Let's switch topics a little bit and talk about tech stack. How, specifically, do you build a database SaaS in 2026, and what do you recommend, tools to use?