How Nomad List got its users
One page per city, built on aggregated data nobody else bothers to compile. One developer, one template, thousands of queries.
Confirmed. The team said it publicly, or the signals leave no room for doubt.
You could start this on Monday. No budget, no audience, no permission needed.
- A data moat that widens over time
- Traffic completely independent of social platforms
- Aggregation work others consider too tedious
- An entity with existing search volume
Programmatic SEO in 2026
Still alive, but the bar has moved. Thin pages get deindexed, so you need real data on every single page.
Everything on this channel →The play
4 steps, in the order they ran them.
- 1
Pick an entity people search by name (a city, a job, a model)
- 2
Aggregate scattered public data into one useful sheet
- 3
Let the community correct and enrich the data
- 4
Publish the business numbers to manufacture press interest
The product itself
read from nomadlist.com, live“🌍 Find your people”
Run this against your own product
Carries the play above, and is written to tell you no when this channel is out of reach for you.
The same twelve channels as an agent skill. It reads your repository and eliminates what you cannot run. Open source, MIT.
curl -o ~/.claude/skills/howtodistribute/SKILL.md https://howtodistribute.com/skill.md
How big it got
Revenue published openly by the founder
What else they ran
The evidence1 checkable
They ran the same play
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