AI SEO/GEO (or whatever it will be called eventually) monitoring for companies.
We monitor how companies/brands rank in LLMs/AI Search, we don't use the API but the user interfaces (since these are totally different). We run thousands of prompts to analyse responses and combine that with website traffic to get an understanding of what is being said and how well you rank.
I didn't anticipate Google moving to AI mode so fast, to be totally honest, which makes it really interesting because we likely see rank tracking and keyword tracking disappear in the near future.
I'm building a Zillow for Europe (https://homestra.com) which is focused primarily on expats and remote workers. Growth is steady and revenue slowly going up (sales cycles on this are brutal).
My other side project (https://webtastic.ai) has become my main work now since it has grown quickly since the last time I posted on HN
It's a web scraping tool that requires constant daily maintenance. I don't think they get enough third party contributors to justify keeping it open source. I bet most users are just there to raise issues whenever something breaks.
They're not "of course completely free todo this" unless they have permission or copyright transfer from every single contributor. They don't solely own full copyright to the combined product, they have been licensed these contributions under GPL, if they want to distribute the combined product (their own code + contributions) they either have to follow the licence conditions or it's a copyright violation.
It feels a bit odd to benefit from open source and than make it private, of course the author is allowed to do that but it does make me cautious about other OSS projects that are getting funding now
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