ILIAS ISM

🥹 "Your service has literally changed my life"

I ran 5 SEO & distribution experiments across my apps over the last 30 days and tracked every visitor to Stripe:

1. One Google Page-1 listicle (pos #7): 45 visitors -> 25 paying customers -> $478.25
2. Retitling commercial pages + 8 DR 50+ backlinks via linkdr.com: avg Google position jumped from 11.5 to 7.1 in 4 days (+24% impressions, $3,008 30d search rev)
3. ChatGPT + Perplexity citations (tracked on aiseotracker.com): 3,122 visitors (38.7% of all traffic) + $297 in direct checkouts
4. Publishing our 856 verified directories list on linkdr.com/resources/dire…: converted a $135 B2B customer 7 minutes after landing + 3x $49 launches on awesome.tools
5. Browser agent submitting to 98 free launchpads + BetaList: 64 visitors, $0.00 direct revenue (purely a DR + LLM entity play)

sending out the full writeup + the exact copy-paste AI agent prompt we used to auto-submit to 98 directories & 15 GitHub Awesome repos to my newsletter today:

il.ly/growth

I noticed most MCP servers only wrap GET requests

they dump 20,000 tokens of JSON into your chat and then you still have to open 10 browser tabs to actually do the work 😭

so today I upgraded all 5 of my products with full read + write remote MCP servers (plus a 2-step spend confirmation gate so your agent never charges your card without asking first):

1. linkdr.com/mcp (14 tools)
- check DR, organic traffic & live top-100 Google SERPs
- review & approve publisher sites right inside Claude Code / Cursor
- order backlinks on your saved card (previews the exact quote first, only charges when you pass confirmPaymentSpend: true)

2. aiseotracker.com/mcp (12 tools)
- track your brand across ChatGPT, Gemini & Google AI Overviews etc etc
- run aiseo_list_missing_sources to pull the exact comparison articles & Reddit threads citing your competitors where you're missing

3. genppt.com/mcp (8 tools)
- make powerpoints I guess

4. awesome.tools/mcp (7 public tools, no API key needed)
- search curated SaaS & AI tools, submit your own product, and verify your backlink badge from terminal

5. scribiz.com/mcp (13 tools)
- paste any YouTube or video URL -> get the summary, chapters, on-screen text & timestamped quotes

Give your coding agent some actual hands today! 🫵

US LLC / C-Corp:
- Stripe Atlas refunds the $500 fee + pays you $1,000-$1,500 just to open the bank account
- Slash / Ramp gives you unlimited virtual cards with 2% cashback on all your SaaS & ads + ~4% yield on idle cash
- Chase / Amex business cards hand you $1,000+ sign-up bonuses and free hotels just for paying your normal server bills
- $50k+ in free AWS, OpenAI, Anthropic & Cloudflare startup credits
- 0% VAT hassle and your accountant doesn't email you every week asking for a $4.99 PDF receipt

Europe:
- pay a notary €2,500 to read a 19th-century document out loud to you in a physical room
- lock up €10k-€25k minimum share capital
- 0% cashback, bankers kinda hate you, €15/mo just to have a debit card, currency exchange fees
- and of course, spend 3 days every quarter doing VAT reverse-charge filings and chasing every single $9 SaaS invoice 😭

you can do this in 2 ways:

1. API (OpenRouter): agent runs a local script that mints the key via the provisioning API, pushes it straight to my coolify-clone deploy API in memory, and only prints the sha256 hash to stdout

2. UI-only (AI Studio / OpenAI): dashboards mask the key anyway, agent-desktop clicks "Copy", then a local script reads pbpaste -> pushes to the server -> wipes the clipboard -> prints "HTTP 200, sha256=0d138a..."

my control plane also only returns sha256 + length on GET /envs, so the agent can verify every app has the new key without the secret ever entering chat context