... what breaks. What about you? What is a startup trend that you secretly think is overrated? Not the obvious ones. The one that everyone seems to believe but you are not so sure about. Imed Radhouani Founder & CTO Rankfenderrankfender.com Comment from Imed Radhouani(@imed_radhouani): @paul_mccarron1  That is fair. The cost of a bad hire is brutal. Not just the money. The months of lost momentum. The energy spent managing someone who is not working ... ... work looks solvable by AI. The last 20% is where the real decision lives. And that 20% is not harder. It is different. It is about context, judgment, and risk. The list you gave is the real work. Revenue

... dinner rush . What I am curious about When did you last look at your database indexes? Do you have automated tests? And where will your system break when user volume increases by 10 times? Imed Radhouani Founder & CTO Rankfender Data first. (*) : those 100 codebases were analyzed by me, Imed Radhouani, as the CTO of Rankfender

... start. Supabase . Found it here three years ago. Thought it was just another backend. Now I can't imagine building without it. Here's what it does for us at Rankfender: Auth that doesn't make you crazy. We have users across 120+ countries. Supabase handles sign-ups, logins, password resets, magic links, OAuth with Google and GitHub. It just works. We didn't have to build any of it. The database is Postgres. Not a proprietary thing ... ... nightmare. We're now on a paid plan. But the upgrade path was smooth. No surprises. No rewrites. What's yours? What tool did you find here that you now depend on every day? Imed Radhouani Founder & CTO Rankfender

... reading Nika's thread here about free vs paid features. Really made me think. Link: https://www.producthunt.com/p/ge... ( shout-out to @busmark_w_nika ! ) She talks about giving generalized advice for free, but charging for specific, tailored help. That's a good framework. But most product owners figure this out after they build, not before. That's backwards. Your free tier should be designed before you write a single line of code. Because it's not just a marketing tool ... ... everything in the free tier. Now nobody upgrades. You have users but no revenue. Giving away too little. The free tier is useless. People sign up, see nothing, and leave. You never had a chance to convert them. Copying competitors

... your GSC, GA4, and other sources. Watches constantly. Not once a week. Autonomously. Strategist. Takes all those conflicting signals and synthesizes them into "here are your top 5 priorities this week, here's why, here's the effort vs. impact." Chat + Autonomy. Executes with your approval. Adds keywords. Schedules content. Fixes issues. No human SEO does this weekly for every client. RAISA does. What is RAISA? RAISA is an AI agent you install into your workflow. It connects to your ... ... strategy. It does the work. You go from operator to decision-maker. What I'm curious about: What's the one thing you wish your SEO tool would actually do, not just show you? Imed Radhouani Founder & CTO Rankfender

... says automation scales. But trust doesn't scale. And in B2B, trust is the only thing that closes deals. What's yours? What manual thing are you still doing because automation would ruin it? Imed Radhouani Founder & CTO Rankfenderrankfender.com Comment from Imed Radhouani(@imed_radhouani): @faysal_fateh  The dictate idea is underrated. Speaking bypasses the perfection filter. When you type, you edit as you go. When you speak, the raw thought comes out. That raw version ... ... shadow-ignore" is the part you never see. No angry comment. No complaint. Just silence. The person never engages again. And you never know why. The screenshot-and-mock trend is real. I've seen it happen to a

... posts, metadata. And if you ignore it, nobody finds your product. So you have a choice. Spend hours on content yourself. Hire someone who doesn't understand your product. Or let an OS handle it. We're building ROSE ( Rankfender Fullstack Optimization Engine ) as a Git based library. An SDK you install directly into your repo. It runs on every commit. Checks your metadata. Validates your heading structure. Suggests internal links. Even auto fixes the small stuff. No separate dashboard ... ... your content so you can focus on building? Yes content is a distraction No I want control over every word Maybe depends on how much I can customize Drop your vote. Tell me why. Imed Radhouani Founder & CTO Rankfender

... calls. "It would be great if you added X." We built X. Nobody used it. So we stopped trusting what people said and started tracking what they actually did. The dataset We pulled 12 months of usage data from Rankfender. 1,247 active users. 27 distinct features across 8 modules. We looked at three metrics for each feature: Adoption rate % of users who tried it at least once Retention rate % who used it again after 30 days Request volume ... ... every day? We tracked the top 10% of accounts by engagement. Their most-used feature was the Workflow Engine. Not because they requested it. Because it saved them time. They built automation for content publishing, citation alerts, and competitor

... months ago, we ran an experiment with our own data. At Rankfender, we tracked 5 of our own competitors

... 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 ... ... enterprise pays us first. Not asks. Pays. What I'm curious about Have you ever built something for a customer you didn't have? How much did it cost you? What did you learn? Imed Radhouani Founder & CTO Rankfender

... Last month, I did something that felt slightly insane. I took our product description, fed it into ChatGPT, and asked it to build a competitor. Not a parody. A real competitor

... produced AI output without human oversight saw traffic drops of 60-80% . Affiliate sites were hit hardest 71% saw negative impacts . But sites using original data? They saw visibility increases of 22% . What we did with RCGE We built Rankfender's Content Generation Engine (RCGE) before the update. After seeing the data, we had to retool it. The problem wasn't the AI. It was the output. RCGE could generate clean, structured content fast. But clean and structured ... ... publishing empty calories. What I'm curious about Have you seen your AI content get hit by the March update? Or are you still seeing growth? What's your "information gain" strategy looking like? Imed Radhouani Founder & CTO Rankfender

... writing for MarTech, points out that AI "can't distinguish between empirical data and subjective opinion" when pulling from the open web . It doesn't know what's real. It only knows what's written. Our own analysis at Rankfender tracked 473 pieces of AI-generated content. The top 10% by citations were AI-generated but edited by humans . They averaged 6.1 citations each. Fully automated pieces averaged 1.2 . The difference? Humans added something AI couldn't. A screenshot from ... ... saying is more valuable than ever. What I'm curious about: In your work, where is AI taking over? And where do you find yourself adding value that AI still can't touch? Imed Radhouani Founder & CTO Rankfender

... Most AI visibility tools show you a dashboard. They tell you where you're invisible. They show you competitors winning. Then what? You stare at the screen, knowing there's a gap, but no idea how to close it. RAIVE 2.2 (Rankfender

... Product Hunt, I'm Imed, founder of Rankfender. We help brands track and improve how they appear in AI answers across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and more. In 120+ languages. We've now tracked over 3,000 brands, analyzed 75,000+ AI answers, and helped founders recover millions in lost revenue from AI errors. Total marketing spend so far: 15k. Here's everything we did with free resources you can use. 1. Narrative: From Agency Pain to Product Solution The story ... ... engages. The launch is the start, not the finish. 4. LinkedIn: Personal > Brand We tried a company page. It got 12 followers in 3 months. Then I started posting as myself. What worked: Behind-the-scenes of building Rankfender

... evidence customers are asking for this. Without these, this is a cost center disguised as a feature." We pulled our customer call transcripts from the past six months. 147 calls. Not one mention of Platform X. We pulled our competitor tracking data. Not one competitor

... website. They relied entirely on AI-generated summaries and comparisons. Implication: If you are not in those summaries, you are not in the consideration set. There is no second chance to make a first impression. Related: Sitemap All Pages | Rankfender (for a complete view of how we structure our own visibility content) 5. Platforms Outside Your Website Drive 1 in 3 Citations We tracked where AI systems found the information they cited. Source Type % of Citations Your own website ... ... visibility are diverging. You can dominate Google and be invisible in AI answers or be invisible in Google and still win AI citations. Related: AI Visibility for SaaS Companies What We Did With This Data We built Rankfender

... stopped wasting time on stuff nobody asked for. That was worth the three months. What's the thing you built that you thought was genius and nobody used? What signs did you ignore? Imed Radhouani Founder & CTO Rankfender Building things people actually use (and why I built Rankfender

... Backlink + Guest Post Platform Marketplace + community + automation. Find guest post opportunities, connect with other sites, manage collaborations. Also posts directly to Reddit, Medium, and other platforms that accept posting via API ( Dev.to , Hashnode, Substack, WordPress.com , and more). All inside Rankfender. We can't build all four at once. So I'm asking: Which one would actually save you time? Which problem hurts the most right now? Drop a number. Or tell me what you're struggling with. I want ... ... build what actually helps. P.S: RAISE, ROSE, RAISA... I'm pretty sure they're planning a group chat without me hahaha :D ! Imed Radhouani Founder & CTO Rankfender

... Maybe more. Here's the painful truth: Your site is translated. Your AI visibility isn't. When a German user asks ChatGPT in German about your category, you're invisible. When a French prospect searches Perplexity in French, your competitor shows up. Translation AI visibility. And it's costing you. The Data We tracked 200 SaaS companies with multilingual sites at Rankfender

... enhancing Rankfender's Content Generation Engine (RCGE) and v2.2 is coming in the next few weeks. Before we lock things in, we want to know what actually matters to people who use content generation tools. Here's what RCGE already does: Intelligence. It analyzes the top 10 ranking articles for any keyword and identifies patterns. What structure do they use? What headers? What formatting? What makes them get cited by AI? Then it builds a brief based on what actually ... ... publish. What we're trying to figure out: What does your current content generator do that you hate? What do you wish it did that it doesn't? When you generate content, what makes you delete it vs

... Last month, I went down a rabbit hole. Product Hunt launches are every founder's obsession. Everyone wants to know the secret formula. So I used Rankfender to analyze 1,000 Product Hunt launches from 2025-2026 tracking their AI visibility, citation rates, and what actually correlated with success. Here's what the top 10% did that everyone else missed. The Dataset Parameter Value Launches analyzed 1,000 Time period 2025 2026 Platforms tracked ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini Metrics measured ... ... language people actually ask , not just what they type . Finding #5: One URL Can Carry You For Superwhisper, one single Product Hunt URL drove 1.6% of their ChatGPT visibility and 5.5% of Google AI Overview visibility. Compare that to competitors

... project management tool for remote design teams. Here's exactly how we work." Feature lists Problem-solution paragraphs Vague benefits Specific outcomes Lesson #2: AI Loves Comparisons Even If You Lose This one hurt. I avoided mentioning competitors. Why give them free airtime? Wrong move. Every AI answer about your category includes comparisons. Always. If you don't provide the comparison, AI finds someone who does and that someone might be your competitor

... Yesterday I shared data from 50,000+ AI answers. Today I'm giving you the exact audit process we use at Rankfender the same one we've run for 500+ brands. Here's the hard truth: 78% of brands are completely invisible in AI answers. They spend thousands on SEO but never check if ChatGPT, Google SGE, or Perplexity actually mention them. Don't be one of them. This 30-minute audit will show you exactly where you stand ... ... Minute Audit Step 1: Keyword Selection (5 minutes) Choose 20 keywords to audit: 10 branded keywords: Your company name Your product names Your founder/CEO name Your flagship features 10 non-branded keywords: "[Your category] best tools" "[Your category] alternatives

... Over the past three months, I've spoken with 50+ agencies using Rankfender. Most started the same way: a client asked "are we showing up in ChatGPT?" and they had no answer. Now? Many have built entire new service lines around AI visibility adding 2k, 5k, even 10k in monthly recurring revenue. Here's exactly how they're doing it. The Opportunity Why this matters for agencies: Metric Value Brands that don't know their AI visibility 78% Clients asking ... ... Average monthly retainer for AI visibility audits 1,200 2,500 Average monthly retainer for ongoing AI visibility + content 2,500 5,000 First-mover advantage is real. The agencies offering this now are locking in clients before competitors