This FREE Claude Code Skill Builds Websites For ANY Business (Steal It)

Income stream surfers| 00:09:45|May 25, 2026
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Intro to the Astro Builder skill and the promise of generating high quality websites using free models via OpenRouter.

A fast, free-to-use Astro Builder workflow shows how Claude Code, Codex, and Semrush MCP can generate SEO-ready websites in minutes.

Summary

Income Stream Surfers' video demos a powerful, free AI-driven website setup method centered on the Astro Builder skill. Nick demonstrates loading the skill via Claude Code Router and running it with free OpenRouter models like Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano Omni and DeepSeek v4 flash. He emphasizes Claude Code output and compares it against Codex and Opus, noting Claude Pro's speed and reliability. The host highlights how Semrush’s MCP inside Claude Code informs keyword research, category discovery, and SEO-driven page generation. Across the build, you see dynamic SEO features: meta titles, upvote/downvote systems, database-backed content, and a sponsor/ads section that future-proofs monetization. He stresses the freemium accessibility, with admin dashboards, newsletter subscriptions, and sponsor handling already in place. The video also leans into the creator’s broader ecosystem—Shopify SEO, Claude-powered Shopify courses, and a prospective freelancing or “website-building as a service” model. If you’re curious about building scalable AI-powered sites with minimal cost, this walkthrough provides a concrete, repeatable blueprint that blends tooling, SEO research, and real-time content generation.

Key Takeaways

  • Free AI models can be used inside Claude Code Router or Open Code to run the Astro Builder skill without paying for licenses.
  • Semrush MCP integrated in Claude Code enables SEO research and topic discovery that guides page generation and content focus.
  • Claude Pro/Max reportedly delivers faster prompts than Codex for this workflow, with Opus running longer without interruption in the demo.
  • Codex low-cost usage completed faster than expected, but Opus produced notably stronger SEO-ready pages and site structure.
  • The final build includes an admin dashboard, sponsor integration, newsletter signup, and a scalable framework suitable for monetized AI-driven directories.
  • The workflow emphasizes a repeatable pattern: research + prompt guidance + scaffolded pages + SEO-ready metadata, all in a few minutes.
  • The creator positions this as a “business in a box” skill with freemium access, ready to deploy for SEO-targeted directories.

Who Is This For?

Video is essential for developers and entrepreneurs exploring AI-powered, SEO-focused website builds on a budget. It’s especially valuable for those curious about Claude Code, Codex, and Semrush-driven workflows to launch AI directories or SaaS-style sites quickly.

Notable Quotes

"Claude is just an absolute beast."
Nick endorses Claude as the fastest/most capable tool in his comparison.
"The Semrush MCP is really, really good. I have to say."
Narrates the value of Semrush MCP for SEO research inside Claude Code.
"This is a business in a box skill, guys. It's free to use."
Summarizes the overall value proposition and freemium accessibility.
"Codex is now finished, which was actually extremely fast."
Compares the completion speed of Codex to Claude in the workflow.
"This gives it a bit more information, how it can generate the pages that we want to go for."
Describes how Semrush-driven prompts inform page generation.

Questions This Video Answers

  • How can you build a free AI-powered directory site with Claude Code and Codex?
  • What is Semrush MCP and how does it optimize AI-generated pages?
  • Can Claude Code Router be used with OpenCode to run free AI models for website builds?
  • What makes the Astro Builder skill suitable for SEO-focused projects?
  • Is there a monetization path for AI-generated directories or storefronts built with these tools?
Astro BuilderClaude CodeOpenRouterSemrush MCPClaude ProCodexOpen CodeAI SEOShopify SEOAI tooling
Full Transcript
Guys, I need to show you this skill that I've been working on for the last few months. It's called the Astro Builder skill and it will output perfect websites every single time, no matter which model you're using. If you go on OpenRouter and go to models, guys, I'm just going to teach you a very, very interesting trick. If you go to prompt pricing and put this down to free, right, like this, all of these models are completely free to use. You can find models here that are pretty damn good, like this one, Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano Omni. This is a decent model, right? Use this inside Open Code, right? We also have DeepSeek v4 flash still, which is here, by the way, completely for free. Use these models inside Open Code to do everything I'm showing you in this video. I'm going to be showing you the output from Claude Code just so that you can see, but you can use a free model inside Open Code or inside Claude Code using Claude Code router, so you don't have to actually pay for anything, okay? I'm just going to be using Claude Code because I want to show you a good output from this skill. Now, you can find the skill in the description of this video, completely free to use. It is open source and it's just a GitHub link. All you do is run one of these commands to install it and then once installed, you basically just give a very simple prompt, okay? So, let's just look at what I've done so far. So, all I did was say, "Please load the Astro Builder skill" after installation. It then installed the skill and then gave it a random API key, which I'm going to be deleting in just a second, and told it to generate images. It then asked me a few questions. So, got it. AI tools directory will research listings. Turso DB, Gemini generated images, before I scaffold a few quick questions. Uh what is the directory's primary angle? So, I'm trying to make a AI tools directory just to show you guys the power of this. So, pure SEO play, broad catalog. Roughly how many tools should we seed at launch? I said 25 tools deeply researched. What's the domain brand name? Use a placeholder for now. Database scope and just told it to, you know, give me as much as possible. And then finally, I also asked it to do some research with Semrush. This specific video isn't sponsored by Semrush, but they did give me the tool as a sponsor and I've been using it absolutely loads, guys. The MCP is really, really good. I have to say using it inside Claude code is next level, I'm telling you. You can find a link to Semrush in the description and in the pinned comment. This video is not sponsored by, I just wanted to mention that because I think it's it's really, really interesting that you can use the MCP to do SEO research inside Claude code and then build your either pages or website around these topics, right? You can see these are the gold ones, solid, really, really interesting stuff. This gives it a bit more information, how it can generate the pages that we want to go for, etc. And yeah, let's start the process now. So I'm just going to say here, build it inside a different folder you're inside um however, can you just build it outside this folder so that This is pretty interesting. It found a new category to own, low competition, rising category, AI search optimization. I love it. That is so interesting. You wouldn't get this from basic research. You only get this if you're using something like Semrush. And like I keep saying, the Semrush MCP is an absolute game-changer, guys. I have to say. So look, it basically reads all of these skills. So I've included the taste MD, the taste skill that I'm doing, Astro setup, Treso setup, SEO checklist, image generation, content collections. What this basically means is the build is going to follow pretty much the same style every single time. Opus 4.7 does an insanely good job with this prompting as well. If you do have Claude Pro or Claude Max or whatever, I would highly recommend using Claude over anything else. Maybe Codex, but Claude is just an absolute beast. I might do this at the same time with Codex actually. So, just so you guys know, I'm using 5.5 low for this just because it's fast. Um obviously, you might want to use something like extra high instead. I just like to use low because it's extremely fast. Although for some reason it's being very buggy today. Not sure if they slowed down the writing ability of Codex, but like this did not take this long before. It's insane how long this has taken actually. Claude is actually going much, much faster, right? Which is very interesting. I wouldn't have said that was even a consideration. By the way, guys, if you're more on interested in kind of AI, SEO, Shopify SEO, that kind of stuff, I'm going to leave a link to my other channel, Shopify Surfers, in the description and also this completely free Claude code for Shopify course, which I'm currently making on that channel. Go and check it out, guys. This channel is kind of what I used to do, all the Shopify stuff, all the kind of AI stuff, SEO stuff. So, if you're into more of that kind of stuff instead of just AI coding, then go and check out Shopify Surfers. There's a link in the description and in the pinned comment. And like I said, there's a free course which I'll also leave a link to. Also, guys, if you need a website building, whether that be Astro, Next.js, Shopify with insane amounts of SEO and AI AEO built into it, go and check out incomestreamsurfer.com. If you want to work with me directly, we will get whatever website you need built for a very, very good price and it should just grow itself kind of compounding over the next few years, even if you don't get any other SEO work done just because of the way that I am building these websites now. They're perfect for ranking on chat GPT, Perplexity, all that good stuff, guys. So, there'll also be a link to incomestreamsurfer.com in the description and in the pin comment. Come and talk to me today. Okay, guys. So, Codex is now finished, which was actually extremely fast. Uh I thought that it was behind, but turns out it's actually ahead. Very, very interesting stuff. So, this is what I built. This is just it checking it on mobile, right? I'm not I'm scrolling, but I'm not doing anything except scrolling. Just wanted to go through this uh and see kind of what we have built. So, AI search, beautiful. Uh app builder, audio. So, she's done a couple of each, so we can obviously just go and add more um tools, right? I could just say to Codex, "Add like 30 more tools." Or whatever it may be. She's done a very, very good job, I have to say, with the prompt, and that was extremely fast. I thought it was going really, really slowly, but turns out it actually wasn't. It was going very, very quickly. So, yeah, this is Codex's build. I think it looks really, really nice, actually. Remember, this is Codex low. That only took about 5 minutes, and it cost, you know, I'm paying $19 a month. Um let's see usage here. Usage remaining. So, I've still got, looks like 61% of my usage left and 94% of my weekly usage. So, you know, it barely costs anything usage-wise. Definitely much much better uh bang for your buck with Codex. Yeah, okay. So, it it didn't complete the entire task. It did some task, right? Some of the tasks. But, I have to say it hasn't completed the task at all, right? Just to be fair. Um just so everyone can make a comparison between Codex and uh Claude code. Opus has been running for 15 minutes just straight without any interruption at all. I'm quite excited to see what ends up happening here. Okay, guys. So, this is what Opus built. Obviously, straight out of the box, you can see that this is significantly better. It's way better for SEO, right? Um it has like an upvote system, downvote system, right? If I refresh, you can see this is now saved in the database. You can submit a tool up here. You can subscribe to the newsletter, although that doesn't seem to be working. That's fine. Um you know, there's all of this different stuff, really, really nice content. Everything's got good um things at the top like uh meta titles. Click on another one, so let's go on Claude. Look at the difference. Bang, bang, bang. What's the other one? Notion. Okay. We got compare pages, so bang, look at that. That is so nice, honestly. This is ready to rank on Google, right? You just give it a name, move on to the next idea, right? Put ads on it, make some money. Bang, bang, bang. So, yeah, guys, this is pretty much what I wanted to show you in today's video. Like, you can get all of these tools for free, so it's put it in like a freemium category as well. Really, really nice quality. And then we should be able to log in here, so the admin login. Bang, look at that. So, we even have an admin login, so you can see you can track submissions, subscribers, sponsors, contacts, everything. So, it looks like at the bottom we can do this. Let's say we wanted to sponsor Harbor. And then uh AI SEO content generator, send inquiry. Oh. Okay, there we go. And then if we go back to the admin, and then refresh this, you can see we now have a sponsor thing right here. Uh this will need a little bit of work, but yeah, you can see what I'm trying to build here. Really, really nice. This is a business in a box skill, guys. It's free to use. You can find a link in the description. With all that being said, I'll leave the video there. Thank you so much for watching. If you are watching all the way to the end of the video, you are absolutely a legend. I'll see you very, very soon with some more content. Peace out.

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