This document outlines plans for an automated website building tool. It would allow users to upload keywords/hashtags and the tool would generate a website by scraping and curating content from various sources related to the keywords. The tool would include user customization options and integrate social media, analytics and advertising monetization. Example automated sites are provided and potential content sources like APIs, forums and marketplaces are listed to illustrate how the tool could work.
2. Chicago Startup Club Automated Web Builder Tool
1. Purpose: To generate Advertising revenue to fund Chicago Startup Club
operations and accelerate the Startups of Chicago Software Engineers. Traffic is
generated via SEO (Google/Bing), Social Media (hashtags, pages, twitter,
youtube), & Monetized via Google Adsense.
2. Whom: Developers & Marketing Specialists
3. 3. What: Developers build, maintain, and improve the web tool to feed Google
content/keywords. Marketers create websites, social media, and hashtag
injection into social media platforms
4. Where: Here at Pavillion Meet Up Group & Work From Home
5. When: Every Tuesday 8-9 PM, 9-10 PM CST, or Work From Home in Free Time
4. 6. How: Asana.com Project Mgmt Software Task Tool
7. MeetUp Hashtag Social Influencers: To attract #VCs #VentureCapital to
#ChicagoStartups #Startups http://www.ChicagoStartupClub.com
@chistartupclub
Group activities after 9 PM:
Everyone pulls up Instagram, Twitter, & upload to
youtube and uses the keywords/hashtags/ + @:
venture capital, start up, hedge fund, ad tech, tech
startups, chicago start ups, indian venture capital
5. Research & Find top 10
venture capital firms on
Twitter, Facebook,
Youtube, LinkedIn:
This is a message to:
1. Bill Gurley
Benchmark
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: GrubHub,
OpenTable, Zillow
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
Uber, Stitch Fix, Nextdoor
2. Chris Sacca
Lowercase Capital
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: Twilio, Twitter
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
Stripe, Uber
3. Jeff Jordan
Andreessen Horowitz
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: Tilt
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
Airbnb, Instacart, Pinterest, OfferUp
4. Alfred Lin
Sequoia Capital
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: FutureAdvisor
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
Airbnb, Houzz, Doordash, Uber
5. Brian Singerman
Founders Fund
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: Stemcentrx
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
Oscar Health, Stripe, Wish
6. Ravi Mhatre
Lightspeed Venture Partners
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: AppDynamics,
Mulesoft, Nutanix
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
Clever, Stitch Fix, Thoughtspot
7. Josh Kopelman
First Round Capital
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: Bazaarvoice,
OnDeck Capital
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
AppNexus, Clover Health, Flatiron
Health
8. Peter Fenton
Benchmark
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: New Relic,
Quip, Twitter, Zendesk
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
Docker, Elastic, Zuora
9. Neil Shen
Sequoia Capital (China)
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: Vipshop, Betta
Pharma
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
Meituan, DJI, Toutiao
10. Steve Anderson
Baseline Ventures
6. GOT A PAYDAY FROM: Instagram,
ExactTarget
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
SoFi, Stitch Fix, Machine Zone
11. Fred Wilson
Union Square Ventures
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: Twitter, Etsy
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
Coinbase
12. Kirsten Green
Forerunner Ventures
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: Dollar Shave
Club, Jet.com
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
Warby Parker, Bonobos
13. Jeremy Liew
Lightspeed Venture Partners
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: Snap
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
Affirm, Giphy, The Honest Company
14. Neeraj Agrawal
Battery Ventures
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: AppDynamics,
Brightree, Coupa Software, Nutanix
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
Glassdoor, Sprinklr
15. Michael Moritz
Sequoia Capital
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: Zappos,
LinkedIn
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
Stripe, Instacart
16. Danny Rimer
Index Ventures
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: Etsy, King
Digital
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
Dropbox, Farfetch, Viagogo
17. Aydin Senkut
Felicis Ventures
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: Shopify, Fitbit
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
Adyen, Credit Karma
18. Asheem Chandna
Greylock Partners
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: AppDynamics,
Arista Networks
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
Innovium, Rubrik, Skyhigh Networks
19. Mitch Lasky
Benchmark
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: Gaikai,
NaturalMotion, Snap
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
Discord
20. Mary Meeker
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
GOT A PAYDAY FROM: Lending Club,
Square, Snap, JD.com
NOTABLE CURRENT INVESTMENTS:
DocuSign, Spotify, Instacart, Houzz
9. PROJECT TITLE: Automated Web Builder
Lead Developer:Manjul Saini (manjulsaini@gmail.com)
ProjectManager: JohnKitover(studentdotmba@gmail.com)
Time Frame till tool isusable:14 days
Projectedbudgettobuild:$800
Deliverables:A .zipfile withan“AutomatedWebsite”thatgeneratescontentfromacombinationof
API’s,OpenSource Scraped&CuratedContent.
Usability:Usercopiesandpastesin1,000 – 100,000 keywordsandgeneratesafully“automated
website”.
Website variables(userinputs):Uploadalogo(Avatar) & headerimage,HeadlineDescriptionText,
DomainTitle,Theme Color,URL’sforsocial mediaprofilesof correspondingwebsite,Analytics&
Adsense code.
SCREEN SHOTSOF THE TUMBLR.com WEB BUILDER (Aswe want to copythe wayinwhichthe Tumblr
“Theme”builderworks):
10.
11. External plugins/Widgets:CommentingDisqus,Google Analytics,Aweberemail capture HTML
APIAccessURL’s
https://www.instagram.com/developer
Example of websitesusingInstagramAPI:
https://publicsta.com/p/johnkitover/3018739752
We wouldwanttoclose the website above,andduplicate theirbusinessmodelof usingthe
InstagramAPI.
Examplesof otherwebsiteswherewe canpull relevantcontentbasedonourKWuploadlist:
https://www.goodreads.com/api
Examplesof siteswe wouldlike toscrape/store/displaycontentfrom:
Craigslist
https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-craigslist(craigslist.org)
http://ghostproxies.com/blog/2015/09/the-ultimate-guide-to-scraping-craigslist-data-with-
software
Twitter
Twitter:https://developer.twitter.com –(Embeda relevanttweetrelatingtothe keyword/hashtag)
eBay
https://go.developer.ebay.com(Embedrelevantitemsforsale basedonkeyword)
Tumblr
https://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/api/v2
Yelp
https://www.yelp.com/developers
Zillow
https://www.zillow.com/howto/api/APIOverview.htm
City-Data(Scrape thiswebsite of restaurantinfo,zipcodes,all citydata) basedonKW’sput intoour
automatedwebbuilder.
12. http://www.city-data.com
40 API’s that WebDevelopersuse:
https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2011/07/40-useful-apis-for-web-designers-and-developers/
Munjal, I will create a formal document regarding this project, but this was some notes that I sent to a computer
programmer about 4 years ago regarding this project concept, there is also a link to an automated website that
indexes my name, John Kitover:
The purpose is to create a software program/scraping script/automated website builder thatharvests and auto
creates by combining content extracted from sites like: instagram, facebook, twitter, youtube, drudgereport
archives, ebay, facebook marketplace, flickr, foursquare, reddit, craigslist, wikipedia, and other large websites
of repositories of "social" or "static" content. Essentially: you upload 1000 - 1MM+ keywords/hashtags - and out
comes a "website" that auto creates webpages, in a google algo spider indexable framework. So we create a
cron job, or an extraction scrip that will take whatever keyword lists we upload, and poof, out comes a rather
unique website of scraped content in a user friendly website.
The google and microsoft spider/indexing should pick up the site with some basic marketing and also by
submitting the site for indexing. Example of a scraped site that is automating website creation/database storage
and ranking in google for many many keywords, in this example, it is a name, and automating scraping, content
posting, and re-indexing in google, and there are numerous version of this site:
http://cocins.com/johnkitover-3018739752
Our website builder should contain other variations or variables to allow the site creator, or user, who is using
the website builder, to select or de-select various options and settings, to make each site rather unique. For
some sites, we may not want scraped content as the particular niche or category might not have relevant
content on the site that we are generating content from.Additionally, the ability to refresh these websites with
new content, as it is generated via social media will be important in acheiving a good quality score with
google's spider/algo that ranks websites in the search results pages.
13. https://www.reddit.com/r/JobBoards - example of a reddit thread that is acting as a way to get traffic and
indexed by google
https://www.jobsinanywhere.com/google-jobs/ - example of an automated website
Manjul,
one more site for you to check out,
https://www.ask.com/web?qo=semQuery&ad=semA&q=good%20cash%20back%20credit%20cards&o=75840
8&ag=fw&an=outbrain&rty=outask00039
Ask advertisers on Outbrain.com as seen on Fox News, then sends the user to their search results pages
which is all ads.
We essentially want to do the same, but generate the natural traffic from google, by generating and submitting
"unique" content to google/microsoft search.
Then monetizing the content with google/msn ads.
14. I want to keep creating more notes on this project before we finalize/launch.
Hope your week is off to a great start. TTYS.