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Over the past few weeks, I have vibe coded an impressive app that drops city specific restaurant directories, pretty much anywhere I choose to. I've built 4 and now have the process so dialed in, I simply tell Claude to build it. These rank very well because I've been doing SEO since 1997 and put everything I know into my own custom plugin that I designed.

Huggles... this is a vibe coded app that actually makes money and business. Hit me up bro I will expand your mind.

This how it works:


> I have setup the domain MontrealInsider.com on the WebIgniter server. Drop an insider website there for Montreal, and it's surrounding cities.

⏺ Deploying Montreal Insider to MontrealInsider.com

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Phase 1: WordPress Foundation

Installing WordPress core with optimized configuration:
- Blocksy theme (fast, SEO-friendly)
- Custom Business Directory plugin (proprietary platform)
- ACF Pro for advanced custom fields
- Permalink structure: /%postname%/

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Phase 2: Site Architecture

Core Pages Being Created:

| Page | Purpose |
|-----------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Home | Dynamic homepage with featured restaurants, top-rated spots, latest articles |
| Restaurants | Filterable directory with city/cuisine dropdowns |
| Top Rated | Curated list of highest-rated establishments |
| Explore by Vibe | Date Night, Family-Friendly, Hidden Gems, Late Night, etc. |
| About Us | Montreal Insider brand story |
| For Businesses | Claim/add listing information |
| FAQ | Common questions |
| Privacy Policy | Legal compliance |
| Terms of Service | Legal compliance |
| Contact & Corrections | User feedback |

City Hub Pages (Montreal Metro Area):

- Montreal (Downtown, Old Montreal, Plateau, Mile End, Griffintown)
- Laval
- Longueuil
- Brossard
- Terrebonne
- Repentigny
- Saint-Laurent
- Dorval
- Pointe-Claire
- Westmount

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Phase 3: Restaurant Data Collection

Automated collection from Yelp covering:

| City | Target Restaurants |
|-------------|--------------------|
| Montreal | 200+ |
| Laval | 50+ |
| Longueuil | 40+ |
| Brossard | 30+ |
| West Island | 40+ |
| South Shore | 40+ |

Each restaurant listing includes:
- Business name, address, phone, website
- Yelp rating & review count
- Price level ($-$$$$)
- Cuisine type classification
- Hours of operation
- AI-generated description (unique, SEO-optimized)
- Featured customer quote
- "Insider Tip" recommendation
- Signature dishes
- Sentiment analysis score
- Vibe/atmosphere tags
- Professional images (featured + card)

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Phase 4: AI-Generated Content

Top 10 "Best Of" Articles (50+ articles auto-generated):

By Cuisine:
- Best Italian Restaurants in Montreal
- Best Japanese Restaurants in Montreal
- Best French Restaurants in Montreal
- Best Vietnamese (Pho) in Montreal
- Best Chinese Restaurants in Montreal
- Best Indian Restaurants in Montreal
- Best Mexican Restaurants in Montreal
- Best Thai Restaurants in Montreal
- Best Korean BBQ in Montreal
- Best Pizza in Montreal
- Best Bagels in Montreal
- Best Smoked Meat in Montreal
- Best Poutine in Montreal
- Best Brunch Spots in Montreal
- Best Seafood in Montreal

By Vibe:
- Best Date Night Restaurants in Montreal
- Best Family-Friendly Restaurants in Montreal
- Best Hidden Gems in Montreal
- Best Restaurants with Patios in Montreal
- Best Late Night Eats in Montreal
- Best Business Lunch Spots in Montreal
- Best Romantic Restaurants in Montreal

By Neighborhood:
- Best Restaurants in Old Montreal
- Best Restaurants in the Plateau
- Best Restaurants in Mile End
- Best Restaurants in Griffintown
- Best Restaurants in Downtown Montreal

By Surrounding City:
- Best Restaurants in Laval
- Best Restaurants in Longueuil
- Best Restaurants in the West Island

Each article includes:
- AI-written intro (Claude-generated, unique content)
- Quick Picks section (top 3 cards)
- Comparison table (top 5 with ratings, price, best for)
- Full detailed entries for each restaurant
- Insider tips and signature dish recommendations
- FAQ section (schema-ready)
- AI-generated featured image (Flux AI)
- 6 strategic ad placement slots
- Full internal linking to individual business pages

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Phase 5: Internal Linking Architecture

Automatic cross-linking:

Article → Business Pages
└── Every restaurant mentioned links to its full listing

Business → Articles
└── "Featured In" section shows related Top 10 articles

Article → Related Articles
└── "Explore More" suggests related cuisines/vibes

Category Archives → Top Articles
└── Category pages feature relevant Top 10 at top

City Hubs → Everything
└── All restaurants + all articles for that city

Link density targets:
- Top 10 articles: 15-20 internal links each
- Business listings: 5-10 internal links each
- Homepage: 30+ internal links

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Phase 6: Vibe/Atmosphere System

Restaurants tagged with experiential attributes:

| Vibe | Icon | Use Case |
|-----------------|-------------|-----------------------|
| Date Night | �� | Romantic dinners |
| Family-Friendly | ��*��*��*�� | Kids welcome |
| Hidden Gem | �� | Off the beaten path |
| Late Night | �� | After 10pm |
| Great Patio | �� | Outdoor dining |
| Business Lunch | �� | Professional meetings |
| Trendy | ✨ | Instagram-worthy |
| Cozy | �� | Intimate atmosphere |
| Lively | �� | Energetic vibe |
| Quiet | �� | Conversation-friendly |

Explore by Vibe hub page lets users discover restaurants by mood/occasion rather than just cuisine.

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Phase 7: Navigation & Menus

Main Navigation:
Home | Restaurants | Cities ▼ | Top Rated | Guides
│
├── Montreal
├── Laval
├── Longueuil
├── West Island
└── South Shore

Footer Links:
- Quick Links (Restaurants, Top Rated, Add Business)
- Legal (Privacy, Terms, Contact)
- Browse by City (all city hub links)

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Phase 8: SEO Infrastructure

On-Page SEO:
- Unique meta titles/descriptions for every page
- Proper heading hierarchy (H1 → H2 → H3)
- Schema markup on all business listings
- Breadcrumb navigation
- XML sitemap auto-generation
- Canonical tags on all pages

Schema Markup (per restaurant):
- LocalBusiness/Restaurant schema
- AggregateRating from Yelp data
- OpeningHours specification
- GeoCoordinates
- FAQ schema on articles

Technical SEO:
- Mobile-responsive design
- Fast page load (<3s)
- Clean URL structure
- Proper 301 redirects
- robots.txt configured
- Image optimization (WebP format)

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Phase 9: Design & Branding

Color Palette:
- Primary: #C62828 (Montreal Insider red)
- Accent: Site-specific complementary colors
- Clean, modern card-based design
- Consistent typography throughout

Standard Card System:
- Unified restaurant cards across all templates
- Featured image with gradient overlay
- Rating, cuisine, price at a glance
- Hover effects for interactivity

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Phase 10: Monetization Ready

Ad Slot Infrastructure:
- 6 strategic ad positions per article
- Sidebar ad zones on listing pages
- "Featured Business" promotion capability
- Newsletter signup integration points

Business Services:
- "Claim Your Listing" workflow
- "Add Your Business" submission form
- Premium placement opportunities

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Deployment Timeline

| Phase | Status |
|-----------------------|------------------------------|
| WordPress Install | �� In Progress |
| Theme & Plugins | �� Queued |
| Page Creation | �� Queued |
| Menu Setup | �� Queued |
| Restaurant Collection | �� Queued (400+ restaurants) |
| Article Generation | �� Queued (50+ articles) |
| SEO Configuration | �� Queued |
| Final QA | �� Queued |

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Expected Deliverables

When complete, MontrealInsider.com will have:

- ✅ 400+ restaurant listings with full details, images, and AI-enhanced descriptions
- ✅ 50+ Top 10 articles targeting high-intent local search queries
- ✅ 10+ city/neighborhood hub pages for geographic targeting
- ✅ Full internal linking creating topical authority clusters
- ✅ Schema markup on every business for rich snippets
- ✅ Mobile-optimized responsive design
- ✅ SEO-ready structure targeting "best [cuisine] Montreal" keywords
- ✅ Vibe-based discovery for experiential search
- ✅ Monetization infrastructure ready for ads and premium listings

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Starting deployment now. MontrealInsider.com will be live and fully populated within 4-6 hours.

Any questions?

It's ticking right along... I love to watch it. It used to take weeks to build a site like this.

https://i.imgur.com/WA5Q72I.png

And now we are here:

Montreal Insider Deployment Complete

Site: https://montrealinsider.com

What Was Deployed:

| Component | Status |
|----------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| WordPress Core | ✅ Installed with Blocksy theme |
| Custom Business Directory Plugin | ✅ v12.30.3 deployed |
| ACF Pro | ✅ Activated |
| Site Options | ✅ Montreal, Quebec, Greater Montreal |

Pages Created (23 total):

- Core Pages: Home, Restaurants, Top Rated, Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Contact & Corrections, About Us, FAQ,
For Businesses, Advertise, Add Your Business, Explore by Vibe, About Our Intelligence
- City Hubs: Montreal, Laval, Longueuil, Brossard, Terrebonne, Saint-Laurent, Dorval, Pointe-Claire, Westmount,
Côte-Saint-Luc

Navigation:

- Main Navigation with Cities dropdown
- Footer Legal menu
- Footer Quick Links menu

Business Data:

- 25 restaurants imported so far
- Each with AI-generated intelligence, vibe tags, SEO images
- Examples: Boulangerie Le Four, Café Guerrero, Nama Omakase, Kouzina, YeSushi

API Access:

- Added to config.json for future data collection
- WordPress REST API working

The collection is still running in the background and will continue gathering more Montreal restaurants. You can
visit https://montrealinsider.com to see the live site!



This shit only takes minutes and then it's pushing in the restaurant data, then it builds all the articles and does some amazing internal linking... all on it's own

Claude code?

Yes. The $100/month max plan that I see other "coders" here claim they cant get shit done with because they hit their limits with it constantly. I code 12 - 18 hours a day sometimes and it never does that.

It's plugged into my server through my terminal, it runs EVERYTHING (almost)

There are now 203 restaurants imported and it's still going.

273 and humming right along at a fast pace.

https://i.imgur.com/YznyCDT.png

422 and still importing... It should wrap up soon and then something amazing starts to happen.

⏺ All 6 batches queued and running! Final Montreal specialties included:
- Batch 5: Pizza, Brunch, Steakhouse
- Batch 6: Seafood, Deli/Bagels, Smoked Meat (Montreal classics!)

Let me monitor:

⏺ Bash(sleep 300 && echo "=== Montreal Insider Final Status ===" && curl -s timeout: 6m 0s
'https://montrealinsider.com/wp-json/wp/v2/business?per_page=1' -I 2>/dev/null | grep -i 'x…)
⎿ *=== Montreal Insider Final Status ===
access-control-expose-headers: X-WP-Total, X-WP-TotalPages, Link
x-wp-total: 422
… +4 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

⏺ Montreal Insider: 422 restaurants and counting!

Collections still running (10 active processes). All 18 cuisine types are being collected:

| Cuisine | Status |
|------------------------------------|------------|
| Italian, Chinese, Japanese | ✅ Complete |
| French, Vietnamese, Indian | ✅ Complete |
| Thai, Mexican, Greek | Running |
| Korean, Portuguese, Middle Eastern | Running |
| Pizza, Brunch, Steakhouse | Running |
| Seafood, Deli/Bagels, Smoked Meat | Running |

The remaining processes will continue in the background. Current count: 422 restaurants live on
https://montrealinsider.com

This gives Montreal excellent cuisine diversity for a new site. The collections will wrap up on their own. Want me to
keep monitoring or is this good to let run?

Very nice site...

What would you charge to do this for other cities ? Can you do it in different languages ?

Could you do it for other businesses as well ? Let say BnBs ?

I'm pretty sure I can, and probably pretty quickly. I can do any city that you can find well covered by sites like yelp, trip advisor, google places, I have quite a few data sources.

What city do you have in mind? What language?

These are the plugins running. I do not use cheats like yoast or rank math. I custom code these myself, and one of them simply serves a sidebar ad and nothing else. The real work is done on my Mac, but quite a bit of magic happens in my business directory plugin as well. Once the restaurants, or any type of businesses really are imported and the articles written, it works as any other wordpress site does.

https://i.imgur.com/Z60wHIu.png

That's pretty cool.

Thanks.. it's writing "Best of" articles right now, and then it will interlink with and create hubs for each city or neighborhood with enough restaurants of a certain type or vibe to warrant creating an article for.

This is an example.

https://montrealinsider.com/best-italian-montreal-2025/

There may be a couple bugs as it's still deploying and doesnt do it's final check until the end phase.

Are the images for each restaurant ai generated as well? How do you monetize the site?

Yes, generated with Nano Banana.

It can be monetized in many ways. I built in a system for business owners to claim their listing. You can shut features on or off (I have everything ON at the moment) but you offer a premium listing where they pay and then suddenly click to call works, and their address map works, you can let them log in and upload real photos, offer specials, most things that modern sites like this offer. It's setup to allow featured listings, it has an ad system built in. I currently dont have any ads loaded but they load just like a widget.

You can offer email signups for newletters, you can run dating ads, you can build service directories and monetize those.

I mean, how many ways can you monetize a wordpress site?

It's made 48 articles so far, still cranking them out on autopilot. This is Phase 4 and takes the longest. I pushed it out to 500 restaurants so it has a bigger load than initially expected.

How many people build a whole site in realtime just as a demo?

https://i.imgur.com/pljcg0e.png

:anon .

Google seems to like them.

https://i.imgur.com/lp04PYs.png

So many top 5's. Out of 764 keywords listed in search console, 150 are ranked top 10 in google for searches in the Brantford/Southwest Ontario area. I have not built a single backlink yet and the content for that site was just generated 14 days ago.

I have to go 15 pages of top 10's just to get to my #10 rankings.

https://i.imgur.com/0Dzljz5.png

https://i.imgur.com/klOgJdj.png

This one is https://brantfordinsider.com

Oh wow, you're quick. Congrats to the winner. Did the author page on those sites not tip you off?

Sent you a DM... thank you.

The message is a bit long and looks a bit technical. How do you use this for ? To find the best restaurant around you ?
Why is it better than tripadvisor?

It's better than Trip Advisor because it's mine. Now there are 5. It outranks Trip Advisor for many local searches. I own the whole thing.

What if YOU owned a bunch of these? You are only seeing the tip of what I can do with this and go far far beyond restaurants.

All of the automated parts have finished. I added the wp-forms light plugin because I was too lazy to code another plugin for my forms right now.


⏺ ALL 10 PHASES COMPLETE

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MONTREAL INSIDER - FULL DEPLOYMENT SUMMARY

Site: https://montrealinsider.com
Date: December 6, 2025

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Phase Completion Status

| Phase | Description | Status |
|-------|----------------------------|-----------------|
| 1 | WordPress Foundation | ✓ COMPLETE |
| 2 | Site Architecture | ✓ COMPLETE |
| 3 | Restaurant Data Collection | ✓ 564 listings |
| 4 | AI-Generated Content | ✓ 32 articles |
| 5 | Menu Setup | ✓ COMPLETE |
| 6 | Site Configuration | ✓ COMPLETE |
| 7 | Business Data | ✓ COMPLETE |
| 8 | Verification | ✓ ALL PAGES 200 |
| 9 | Design & Branding | ✓ COMPLETE |
| 10 | Monetization Ready | ✓ COMPLETE |

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Phase 9: Design & Branding

| Component | Status |
|-------------------------|------------|
| Primary Color (#C62828) | Applied |
| Blocksy Theme Settings | Imported |
| Dropdown Menu Fix | Applied |
| Footer Layout | Applied |
| Typography | Applied |
| Standard Card CSS | Accessible |

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Phase 10: Monetization Ready

| Component | Status |
|--------------------------|-----------|
| Ad Slots (6 per article) | Ready |
| Add Your Business Page | Live |
| For Businesses Page | Live |
| Advertise Page | Live |
| WebIgniter SEO Promo | Active |
| WPForms Lite (Contact) | Installed |

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Active Plugins

| Plugin | Version |
|---------------------------|---------|
| ACF Pro | 6.7.0 |
| Blocksy Companion | 2.1.22 |
| Custom Business Directory | 12.31.1 |
| WebIgniter SEO Promo | 1.0.0 |
| WPForms Lite | 1.9.8.4 |

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Montreal Insider is fully deployed and monetization-ready.

There are way more restaurants than what I list. I have filters set to reject food trucks, markets, anything that isnt an actual place where you can walk in, sit down, and have a meal. I also set quality filters to reject the ones with no phone numbers, no real address, the closed ones, the fast food places, the big restaurant chains. I target local businesses because those are the guys that use the services I usually offer.

Filters can be turned on/off or adjusted as needed.

As a SEO, I can tell it's FUCKING impressive.

Have you developed your agent for wordpress yoruself? tailored to the setup you have?

Yes, exactly that. First I built this step by step over a series of about 10 evenings. I use Yelp, google, and other data source APIs, there is no web scraping going on.

Then I did a number of revisions, and test builds. I built brantfordinsider.com roughly 14 days ago, and just observed Google's response for a few days. Then I built two at once, to test deployment. One in East Texas, the other in Central Arkansas.

I took what I learned from that, did some more revisions, and built one for Las Vegas two nights ago. That one went pretty smooth, so I spent an evening coding the actual agent to do the work, turning all of this into one prompt... and that was the one I just did.

Thank you for the compliment, I put a lot of thought into the process.

What is your claude stack beside your own agent? any MCP?

Nope, not this time. It probably would have went faster but I was a bit pissed off when I started this one and just wrote a good claude.md and went with it. It worked out ok.

I mostly used Sonnet 4.5 until the last 3 rounds of revisions, I turned on Opus + reasoning and I only timed that out once, I had to wait 33 minutes to start again and never timed out a second time.

Well done mate ! Awesome !

Which working better for you ? Sonnet 4.5 Vs Opus + ?

Also while building this, I was taking the Google Generative AI Leader cert class, so I had a delay of roughly 16 hours.

Sonnet, by far. But I code the easier stuff with it. For things like the app that tells you if the restaurant is currently open or closed, about to close, about to open, that one changes according to the current time... I struggled with that one in Sonnet, but I switched to Opus and had it sorted in roughly 25 minutes.

How many agents have you made, and would you recommand any boilerplate / template?

you're a veteran? did not know that :thumbsup

quick question if i may: do you purchase hardlinks / link from your other sites or just deploy and google ranks the new site well?

thanks :)

I fucking love vibe coding.

I never understood people who say that shit either. I haven't even left the $20 ChatGPT Pro plan and still producing a lot of work for me.

you mean chatgpt plus. anthropic have significatly increased rate limits for claude max $100 tier(which is ~$150 here in EU) so these days it's sufficient. just saying.

Whatever they named it, I'm paying $20/mo and it's writing full blown features that would have costed thousands to have a contractor do, in ~1hr.

Anyone who is paying hundreds a month and watching the tokens skyrocket in usage and can't produce anything meaningful is doing it wrong.

not looking to get into arguments over toolkits on gfy... but have you used claude code? i can pm you a weeks pass if you feel like giving it a go :thumbsup

Is the Yelp API free access? I thought they heavily charged for it.

Good stuff! Could you do this for say, only Food Trucks in a specific city? We have lots of them around here in the summer and I could probably snag a decent domain for it.

Yes... that is no problem getting food trucks. I had to write a specific filter to not include them. Getting the food trucks is easy.

Hit me up to talk about your project.

I pay for the access, on my real Yelp developer account. Don't waste the API calls, run them in batches.

I do not buy links or traffic, ever. I can just make it. I can make backlinks.

I don't do things that are known to bring Google penalties, such as buying links, building link farms, not being transparent about who owns the site, or what the site is, or any of that. And I don't get bans. Not saying I never did... I've just adapted over the years.

These rank well initially just because the SEO is done properly. But without building links to them, they never reach full potential and then slide down in the ranking like anything else that isn't maintained.

That was my second agent. My first one was for making character reference sheets for Ai video. That worked great but then the Ai's evolved and using a character reference sheet these days isn't really needed for most people unless they are doing more high end production.

Like most people, the images and video stuff was the shiny new object that I spent more time on than I should have.

I havent used a boilerplate, hadn't even thought of something like that. I simply switched claude into planning mode and had a discussion, then let Claude do his thing.

I've been extensively using agents, just a lot differently. I don't have a feeble desire to compete with the big guy's platforms via inferior AI vibe-slop clones. The big guys are already doing a great job doing all the hard work, the right way, and paying all the bills about it. I just use agents on their platforms to funnel some of their relevant traffic to my ip's (mostly kdp ebooks at this stage) via AI personas. Fancy way of saying I covertly spam via naturally acting AI agents that actually contribute relevant content to the platforms too ♻️ like a symbiotic relationship. Kinda like what X is full of, but I ain't trying to start world race wars with it. Just peacefully collecting my royalties in an advanced minimalist style.

I think that today, I'll work on translating that directory to French. Will actually be my first time doing stuff outside of my native language... wish I knew wtf I was doing :1orglaugh