Ship It Live — $1,999 flat
Design + build + deploy · kickoff in 24h · limited slots
Ship It Live · directory sprint
A directory people search and submit to, live in 14 days.
Every listing its own indexable page, search that actually filters, and a way to charge for the top spot from day one.
Quick answer
A searchable directory website can be designed, built and live in 14 days for a fixed $1,999, covering listing pages, categories and filters, search, a submission form, moderation and paid featured placements. It is built for SEO from the start, because directories earn their traffic from search.
The plan
Day one to day 14, written down.
You get this schedule before you commit, not after. If a phase slips, that is mine to absorb — the price and the date were agreed before anything started.
- 1
Days 1–2
Structure
What a listing is, what fields it has, and how people will search for one. Get this wrong and every listing page is wrong, so it comes first.
- 2
Days 3–7
Design
The listing page and the browse-and-filter experience. Both are designed for search traffic landing cold rather than for someone starting at the homepage.
- 3
Days 8–12
Build
Listings, categories, search, submissions and payments. SEO structure — schema, sitemap, canonical URLs — is built in rather than added afterwards.
- 4
Days 13–14
Seed and launch
Your initial listings loaded, submissions opened, and the site live with every page indexable from day one.
What $1,999 gets you
Everything needed to launch — nothing padding the invoice.
Who books this
Built for
Operators of a niche nobody has catalogued properly yet
Communities whose best resource is currently a spreadsheet link
Founders who want an SEO asset that compounds instead of a landing page
The honest part
When 14 days is the wrong answer.
A fixed deadline only works when the scope genuinely fits inside it. These are the cases where I will tell you so rather than take the booking.
Directories with no initial listings. An empty directory ranks for nothing and converts nobody — come with the first fifty entries, even if they are scraped from your own research.
Full booking or transactions between users, which makes it a marketplace rather than a directory. That is a different sprint with a different number.
User reviews at scale with the moderation operation that inevitably follows. Simple ratings fit; a review platform does not.
Questions
Before you book
Yes, when the listing structure is agreed on day one. Directories are structurally simple and content-heavy, which is exactly the shape that fits a two-week sprint — the long pole is your listings, not the build.
Other sprints
14 days from now, this could be live.
A 30-minute call decides whether the scope fits. If it doesn't, I'll tell you what would.