... Every SEO/marketing tool I look at lately has bolted on some version of "AI visibility tracking" How often your brand gets mentioned in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, etc. The pitch is basically: rankings are dying, AI mentions

... Apple's own support pages. Apple In-App Purchase: 26%, or 15% if you're in the Small Business Program, the Mini Apps or Video Partner Programs, or on an auto-renewable subscription after the subscriber's first year. Alternative payment processing inside your app: 20%, or 10% for those same groups. Out-of-app offers with an actionable link: a 15% store services commission, or 10% for those groups, on anything bought within 7 days of the tap. Apps ... ... distributed outside the App Store entirely - an alternative

... have been testing how different products show up in AI answers and noticed that getting mentioned doesn't always mean much. A product might be listed alongside several competitors

... been testing a few coupon extensions lately, and I m looking for a good Honey alternative. I used @Honey for a while, but after watching the Megalag videos about them and seeing all the controversy around how they operate, it seems like a lot of people are boycotting or moving away from Honey now. That made me want to look at other options too. What coupon extensions are actually worth using in 2026? Ideally something that: Automatically tests coupon codes ... ... checkout Has decent success rates Doesn t do anything sketchy with affiliate links Works on a good number of stores Isn t overloaded with popups or tracking I ve seen a few alternatives

... week we ran our own brand through it and caught something uncomfortable. Search "brandscope ai": Google shows us #1 organic. But Google's AI Overview describes a different company with a similar name ( wowai.ch ). And there's a direct competitor using nearly our exact domain ( brandscopeai.com ). Three companies, two named BrandScope, all competing for one AI identity. This isn't an edge case name collisions are the #1 thing we see when brands run their first scan. Powsight gets confused ... ... with PowerSight. A brand with a common name finds AI quoting the other company's site. "Mentioned

... decide what s actually worth trusting. For makers, the interesting part is figuring out what makes a product recommendable by AI in the first place. Comment from Ben Cohen(@bencohen): @oshylabs  That s a really good distinction. A mention isn t necessarily a recommendation, and I think people tend to lump those together. Being named as the answer to a specific need is obviously much more valuable than just appearing somewhere in a list. Have you found a good ... ... biggest measurement gap right now. Referral traffic only tells you when AI already sent someone your way. It doesn t tell you which prompts you appeared in, why you were chosen, or more importantly, all the prompts where a competitor

... share what's in it. The part I'm most excited about is the AI Visibility feature. Since search is shifting toward AI answer engines rather than just Google, I built a 6-tab dashboard (Summary, Questions, AI Responses, Competitors, Recommendations, History) that tracks how often a brand gets mentioned

... people told me the same feature surprised them. So I'm rebuilding it around that instead of guessing. Quick update on FounderMind AI. Since the last launch thread, two separate people mentioned the same thing without prompting: the competitor

... keep digging into what actually gets a product mentioned in ChatGPT or Perplexity answers, and the data keeps pointing somewhere that makes me question the whole "GEO/AEO" hype. Ahrefs looked at 75k brands and found branded mentions

... almost 8% higher than last year. But the game has changed. What's Different in 2026 1. Backlinks are a gate, not a dial. A Semrush study of 1,000 domains found that authority score correlated with AI mentions at Pearson 0.65. Raw backlink volume correlated much more weakly. Low-authority domains collect a handful of citations; top-tier domains collect dozens. The relationship is threshold-shaped. 2. The split between SEO and GEO is real. Backlinks influence AI visibility ... ... have improved their rankings. In AI search, nofollow links are often just as important as dofollow links. Image backlinks deserve more attention. Perplexity and ChatGPT Search favor them, and Gemini also shows a noticeable correlation. Listicle placements and brand mentions

... things that worked surprisingly well for my Chrome extension (a LinkedIn activity tracker that alerts you before you hit LinkedIn's limits and trigger account restrictions). 1. I talked about it constantly on Product Hunt before launch. I kept mentioning that I was building it and shared a waitlist to build anticipation. 2. After launch, I reached out to people on LinkedIn via DMs. I asked whether they knew anyone struggling with LinkedIn account restrictions. Many introduced me to people ... ... actually happens when sensitive data gets pasted into a chatbot) instead of just listing features ourselves. One thing I'm curious about: for the pre-launch phase, how did you decide which communities were actually worth showing up in vs

... paid conversion. 25%+ with PQL. Webinars (live): 22-33% CTA conversion. High-engagement webinars hit up to 69%. AI search (GEO/AEO): 4-5x higher conversion than traditional organic. One B2B study found AI-referred traffic converted at 7.12% vs 1.37% for organic. Another found 14.2% for AI traffic. Quora: 2-5% conversion. 35% of B2B decision-makers answer questions on Quora. Reddit: 0.3-1.5% post-to-customer conversion in fit subreddits. CPC of $0.50-$2.00 vs

... Google still largely shows traditional results. AI search is mostly eating informational traffic, not purchase-intent traffic. Second, the traffic that AI does send is higher quality. ChatGPT-referred visitors spend an average of 15 minutes on a website versus Google-referred visitors at 8 minutes. Sessions from AI referrals grew 527% year over year in the first five months of 2025. Third, only 16% of brands are systematically tracking their performance in AI search. That means 84% of your ... ... competitors

... welcome! If you are hesitant about launching, you should do it! :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @raffay_sajjad  When I see someone on Reddit asking for hacks to be productive, I tell them mine, but only 50% mention productivity. I am focusing on the quality of the answer so it is interesting enough for other people to visit my profile, where the link is. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @amy_ingram  I definitely do not want ... ... know me more deeply, so they are more responsive to DMs and more willing to support me :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @matthias_stralman   @vladimir_iudin  I will add it into my options, thank you for mentioning

... short call to action at the end, inviting people to join the waitlist. If a LinkedIn post isn't related to the tool, I'll sometimes leave a funny comment underneath it and add a P.S. mentioning my tool. I want to dedicate at least one LinkedIn post per week specifically to the product I'm building. I'd love to hear what has worked for you. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @builder_eden  It shouldn't feel ... ... like selling myself either, so I don't. What I do is write comparison pages between the competing products and mine, and put everything into ranking those. The people who land on them are already interested in a competitor

... search, backlinks influence visibility differently. They act on the retrieval layer the live search index that grounds AI answers rather than the model's frozen training weights . A domain's Authority Score correlated with AI mentions at Pearson 0.65, according to a Semrush study of 1,000 domains tracked across five AI surfaces . Raw backlink volume correlated far more weakly. Two insights from the data: Backlinks are a gate, not a dial. The relationship between authority and AI visibility ... ... threshold-shaped. Low-authority domains collect a handful of AI mentions

... more than any UI polish did. So yeah, I d say naming the problem is the actual unlock. The demo just has to not get in the way of it. Comment from Viraj Parab(@viraj_parab): StartupHQ to organize competitor research, validate ideas, and keep my roadmap focused. It removed a lot of the "what should I do next?" moments. Now the challenge is exactly what you mentioned

... brought us: 600+ new user registrations 4,400+ unique website visits And then the 20 days after the launch brought even more: 1,925 total new registrations 15,800 website visits 70,100 unique visits across own.page pages 5 mentions in large newsletters For some products, maybe these numbers are normal. For me, they felt huge. Because behind every registration, there is a real person, someone who created a page, someone who gave the product a chance, someone who maybe ... ... own.page for the first time because of that launch. And here is something unexpected. Product Hunt didn t just give us one launch day. It gave us momentum. People discovered the product, shared it, mentioned

... like telegram more than the whatsapp for chatting :) VS Code : i do code . Comment from mono.(@shakutovbekzat): Here s my stack for building mobile apps today: Antigravity + Codex (AI Agent): Switched to this setup recently. Previously, VS

... layer. When someone asks "what's the best tool for X?" AI gives an answer. And if your product isn't in that answer, you're invisible. The problem? Most solo founders have no idea where (or if) AI mentions their product. The big players have teams monitoring this. We don't. So I built AIRankCite, a tool that scans Reddit, Hacker News, and niche forums to show you exactly where AI is picking up signals about your product, where ... ... your competitors

... them, photo profiles were special in a similar way. When I double checked the profiles, the links were not working. And I hate finding myself interacting with bots. What is the limit that bothers you in interacting with AI vs what feels fine? A/ Interacting with a bot B/ Interacting with content being 100% generated C/ The person giving the idea, and asking AI to write an answer. D/ Asking AI to rewrite E/ Correcting with AI It was funny ... ... experimenting with just writing and keeping mistakes. But I m not comfortable with it. I might test whisper or equivalent next. Comment from Sal Georgiou(@sal_georgiou1): Almost easy. Two big dinstictions for me are what you already mentioned

... nobody was talking about: LLMs don't "rank" pages. They stitch together snippets from sources that often aren't even on page 1 of Google. The #1 lever for AI visibility isn't your website. It's third-party mentions (listicles, Reddit threads, niche blogs, comparison pages). Most "AI SEO tools" tell you your score. None of them close the loop. So we built Wellows to do the three things that actually move the needle: see what AI says about ... ... content it's pulling from, and get you mentioned

... makes sense to separate the founder from the product ? Comment from Mickael Chiron(@hivin): Good point, personal brand helps early traction, but it can also bias feedback and hide product flaws. Maybe the real question is less brand vs product and more how to get honest users early without distortion. Have you seen cases where strong founder visibility actually blocked real feedback? Comment from Jinji Huang(@jinji_huang): I lean toward a hybrid, with the product doing the first ... ... believe many used a model to at least improve the wording. But what can we do about that? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @jinji_huang  I think that B2B product can be the most sensitive (as you mentioned

... Because the game changed and nobody sent a memo. More and more of your clients customers are skipping Google entirely. They go straight to ChatGPT or Perplexity, ask a question, get an answer, and click the brand that gets mentioned. If your client is not getting mentioned

... thought we knew We assumed enterprise customers wanted the same things as our small business users, just more of it. More security. More control. More features. We never talked to them. We read blog posts. We looked at competitor pricing pages. We guessed. Here's what we missed: Procurement cycles. Enterprise deals take 6-12 months. We had 30-day sales cycles. We weren't built for that. Security reviews. We needed SOC2. We didn't have it. Customers asked ... ... this most right now? For us it was solo builders who can't also become full-time marketers. Smaller users, faster feedback loops, and they tell you what's broken in hours not quarters. Your table comparing build time vs