Ilias Ism

Ilias Ism (full name Ilias Ismanalijev) is a SaaS founder and SEO practitioner who runs a portfolio of more than ten small products alongside an SEO agency. He is known on X for sharing traffic data, launch tactics and experiments with AI search, and for treating distribution as the core skill of an indie maker.

His biggest product is GenPPT, an AI presentation maker that turns prompts, documents and messy notes into finished slide decks. Its revenue is verified on TrustMRR at around $8K MRR with more than $170K earned in total. He also builds LinkDR, outreach software for finding link prospects and earning backlinks, and AI SEO Tracker, which monitors whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini cite a website.

The agency side of his business, MagicSpace SEO, does SEO for software companies, and SEO Roast sells recorded video teardowns of a site's SEO. Smaller experiments include MagicBuddy, an AI assistant on Telegram, MagicMeme, a headshot generator and the Awesome Tools directory. He writes about what works, with data, on his personal blog at il.ly.