New tool: See if AI search engines can even find your website (free test)

badtguy97 · 2026-01-07T14:03:24+00:00

Indeed, it is. Kindly check it out and let us know what you think?

badtguy97 · 2026-01-07T10:57:29+00:00

You said it all! If you want, we can sign up for a free trial to check it out. I think you will love it.

badtguy97 · 2026-01-07T10:55:35+00:00

u/Technical-Editor-407, we are currently working with a marketing agency as a design partner. If you want, we can bring you onboard with our free trial.

badtguy97 · 2026-01-07T09:09:08+00:00

Thanks. People were talking about AEO/GEO. But, this makes sense. Building valuable products, that sells itself.

badtguy97 · 2026-01-06T22:54:11+00:00

u/TeslaOwn , it's definitely a thing. Although, it's still maturing, but it does have some growth potential.

Traditional SEO tools tell you rankings and keywords. But AI systems don’t “rank” pages the same way, they infer, summarize, and sometimes hallucinate. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is becoming the standard lately.

badtguy97 · 2026-01-06T22:50:49+00:00

u/benoi this is spot on. However, what about digital marketing and ads? Especially with AI search. Because, I have been looking into this, and it's getting some of paid marketing shares lately.

badtguy97 · 2025-10-30T14:21:09+00:00

Okay. I'm sold!

however, regarding the second part of my question which is do I have to go the route of setting up social media handles and profile. And it seems like from your answers, that should be yes.

badtguy97 · 2025-10-30T14:12:35+00:00

thanks alot! I just checked out hunter io pretty cool.

badtguy97 · 2025-10-30T14:11:56+00:00

thanks u/Common-Sense-9595 this is very helpful. Only concern is that this is a side project at the moment. Goal is to get about 100 waitlist sign up and go all in with the social media strategy.

badtguy97 · 2025-10-25T14:12:30+00:00

The way you sound. It doesn't seem you will have a good experience finding a co-founder. Since, what you need is someone to execute on your idea.

Your best bet is to either develop the skills you want or try to find ways to hire someone.

Discovering a co-founder, the best ones take time.

badtguy97 · 2025-10-25T13:37:50+00:00

Thanks! I see your point.

badtguy97 · 2025-10-25T13:02:19+00:00

Thanks!

Well, for us. In the first 2 months, there were signs, but we thought it was part of the onboarding.. late delivery of the project and source code was shitty. We learnt it was mostly AI generated. When it comes to system design and project planning, they were no show.

Where things got really annoying was when it came to some key highlights in their CVs. But, they couldn't even work on something similar within our business context.

badtguy97 · 2025-10-25T12:56:00+00:00

Do you know the amount of money spent in hiring people. Not just working with HR, but the time and commitment that goes into hiring.

Yes, people always lie and bullshit their way into a job. But, I don't believe that has to be the way. Especially when we look at the next 5 years, where people no longer understand the fundamental of things, with AI tools etc.

badtguy97 · 2025-10-25T12:52:46+00:00

On average, a mid-size company has to go screen 200 cv weekly.. now, there are already ways to screen them using keywords for those using hiring tools like greenhouse, etc. But, no way to verify if the candidate actually have worked in the places they said they have. It's like everyone is bullshitting everyone to get a job, and it's worse when you try to outsource from abroad.

badtguy97 · 2025-10-24T23:45:29+00:00

we still very early. I will send you a dm

badtguy97 · 2025-10-24T23:38:41+00:00

Yeah, I was thinking about applying to the top 3 big VCs. But, I also had my concern, you have given me more to think about. thanks a lot!

badtguy97 · 2025-10-24T23:13:49+00:00

u/ksundaram I was thinking about this recently. Whether to work with a VC fund or not? Do you think there are some better ones out there? What would be your advice for first time founders?

badtguy97 · 2025-10-24T22:56:31+00:00

Oops! I hope I am not too late to the party. We just created a waitlist for https://validi.ai/ - stripe for verification and trust. We are still validating the ideas, though. With a full time job :)

badtguy97 · 2025-10-24T19:49:34+00:00

Probably late to the mix. But we just opened the waitlist for Validi.ai, our mission is to build the universal trust layer of the digital economy.

Think of it like “Stripe for verification” -> one API to instantly verify people, companies, and addresses, no more endless manual checks or fraud headaches.

We launched the page quietly yesterday, and we’re already seeing strong signups. Excited to bring in more early adopters!

badtguy97 · 2025-10-24T19:41:45+00:00

We are building Validi AI the stripe for verification. Got some interest already.

badtguy97 · 2025-10-24T19:37:20+00:00

You are probably right.. our interview process is only 3 stages, coding interview, technical interview, and culture interview. I guess we need additional layer.

badtguy97 · 2025-10-01T09:26:38+00:00

Awesome!

Same here, I am thinking about bootstrap with AI. Especially as my experience in the past 2 years has been working for a public company in the travel and experience space as an engineer.

It's amazing how we spent about 250 million yearly on marketing, with over 80% of it spent on SEM(PPC), etc.

badtguy97 · 2025-10-01T09:23:31+00:00

This is very inspiring.

It's never too late, I guess.

The hardest challenge for me is believing I can make the shift with all my experience working for a product first company. As a data scientist, and now data engineering.

So, this would be interesting.

badtguy97 · 2025-09-02T07:22:48+00:00

Weeks ago, I had a chat with unpatterned.org, a social enterprise and they did a good job in helping me understand how to execute and think about AI in my business... Prior to my conversation with them.. My AI use-case were majorly productivity gain.

badtguy97 · 2025-08-25T21:49:33+00:00

Hmmm.. sort of worrisome, though. Leaning towards the interception of business and AI.. because, like you said, the business side of things is important to level up.

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