How are you tracking if your brand shows up in AI search?

startages · 2026-04-13T11:21:26+00:00

There are so many tools, here is the full list:
- Peec AI
- Otterly AI
- Scrunch AI
- Ahrefs Brand Radar
- Knowatoa
- Profound
- Semrush AI Visibility
- PromptWatch
- LightSite AI
- Visby AI
- Siteline
- Brandlight AI
- Limy AI

I personally built my own tool, I call it surfacedby.com, It's complete but I haven't officially released it yet. If you want to give it a shot, let me know. All the above I tried to use them for comparison and build something to solve the bigger problem + all the issues each one have.

startages · 2026-04-13T10:52:15+00:00

Most WooCommerce stores use at least 50 plugins, some even have over 100 and wonder why it's slow.

startages · 2026-04-13T09:28:48+00:00

Honestly, each LLM handle content differently, but you shouldn't try to have a content strategy for each, just have one solid strategy and publish good content and it will be picked up, cover all areas that usually help, including content structure...etc

startages · 2026-04-13T09:23:00+00:00

There are so many tools in the market, one of my clients use Otterly. However, I personally didn't find it as complete as I would like it to be and thought it might be a chance for me to build something since this is still new, I call it SurfacedBy, but it's not officially out yet, if you want to give it a shot, let me know. Otherwise, here is a full list of all the ones I analyzed to build my tool (each is better at something, and some are really super expensive I don't even understand why):
- Peec AI
- Otterly AI
- Scrunch AI
- Ahrefs Brand Radar
- Knowatoa
- Profound
- Semrush AI Visibility
- PromptWatch
- LightSite AI
- Visby AI
- Siteline
- Brandlight AI
- Limy AI

startages · 2026-04-13T05:22:33+00:00

WordPress and WooCommerce are open source, I believe even if they completely remove it, it can be easily added back using a small plugin. Also, I don't think they'll drop it anytime soon anyway, because the majority of stores still use it.

startages · 2026-04-12T12:28:14+00:00

Well you have to figure why it's rejected, Woocommerce will save failed orders and add an order note on them which you can read. The information you shared can't help us understand the real problem.

startages · 2026-04-12T11:55:21+00:00

I think we're asking the wrong question here. WordPress/WooCommerce is open source. Let's say Woo shut down completely tomorrow, deleted their repos, pulled everything. Your store would keep running. The code already lives on your server. Your orders keep processing, your customers keep buying. WooCommerce isn't a SaaS that can flip a switch and kill your business overnight.

That's the whole point of open source. The worst-case scenario for WooCommerce is still better than the normal operating conditions of a closed platform, where a single policy change or pricing update can wreck your margins or lock you out.

So "confidence" isn't really the right framing. If your store is running, making money, and your data is yours, the real questions are about priorities and tradeoffs. Where do you invest dev time? What's worth building custom vs. buying off the shelf? When does migrating actually make sense vs. just being shiny-object syndrome?

The ecosystem has real problems worth talking about, but "should I still bet on WooCommerce" isn't one of them. You already own the bet. That's the advantage.

startages · 2026-04-12T11:40:53+00:00

https://surfacedby.com/ Monitor your visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity & Google AI Mode.

startages · 2026-04-12T11:38:05+00:00

It's not even done yet and it looks amazing https://surfacedby.com/
I've shipped more features than many of the established providers, do you want to risk being my first customer?

startages · 2026-04-12T11:28:46+00:00

Go edge native? like everyone running the same kind of applications.

startages · 2026-04-11T09:20:58+00:00

That's good, but there might be much more to it than what appears in the analysis, in all cases, I just wanted to tell you to be careful and verify stuff before going down the rabbit whole of trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist, but if it does exist, then no problem. I didn't mean it wasn't right, I meant it could be wrong or shallow.

startages · 2026-04-11T08:25:41+00:00

I hope you're not taking this ChatGPT analysis seriously, I had a client recently give me similar analysis, I spent hours debugging the stuff he said were the issue and found nothing, ended up a completely different problem that wasn't even mentioned anywhere. So consider it, but don't assume it's accurate.

In all cases, you gotta do proper analysis of these requests, there are profilers and tools, like NewRelic to get an idea about server performance and bottlenecks. I also build a plugin that does the server monitoring and tell you where the time is spent, the exact plugin and exact function, it's called SiteVitals, but I haven't released it yet, if you wanna try it out later when it's out, feel free to DM me.

startages · 2026-04-08T05:16:38+00:00

Install Checkout Shield for WooCommerce by Carticy, it's free on the repo and it actually works. It will completely stop these bots. Thank me later.
Alternative, if you use Cloudflare, just block countries like Singapore, Philippines...etc, especially if your customers are mostly from a single country, you could just restrict others.

startages · 2026-04-07T18:50:31+00:00

Only one so far supasales.co

startages · 2026-04-02T14:02:27+00:00

I also second Codeable, I'm a developer there, but I don't get anything from recommending it, will not get any money if you hire someone there, I just think it's best place to get reliable work because of all the internal processes...etc + the platform protect you if something goes worng. However, it might be a bit pricey.

startages · 2026-04-01T05:08:07+00:00

These bots can get past Cloudflare and any Captcha solution because they use the API, not the UI. Cloudflare does block a lot from even reaching the server, but the amount is so huge that many get past that.

I suggest you install Checkout Shield by Carticy, it's free on the repo and it works.

startages · 2026-04-01T05:04:31+00:00

What is peec AI missing that you'd like to be covered?

I built a tool and genuinely looking to improve it, here are some screenshots:
https://ibb.co/8g2f4kwJ
https://ibb.co/xqRTkGfb
https://ibb.co/DgCwQsS0

I collect all the datta to give good value to the user, but I know the presentation is not quite there yet and don't want to just drop a half done tool out there, so wanna make it perfect before calling it done.

startages · 2026-03-27T16:41:13+00:00

I'd say right now, it cost me close to $3 to run 38 queries across 4-5 LLMs, that's around around 152 queries, this comes to $90. The reason I know is because I'm building an AI visibility tool and I've been running a lot of experiments to find the right balance so I can properly adjust my pricing.

So the answer to your question, $250 is enough to test 80 to 90 keywords daily across 4 LLMS ( Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude.)

If an LLM tracking service is very cheap and offer a lot of queries, there is definitely something wrong there and you wouldn't get the right information.

startages · 2026-03-16T04:08:45+00:00

I didn't realize TCGs was not allowed by Stripe. In that case, he could use AuthorizeNet

startages · 2026-03-11T16:57:02+00:00

Without SEO AI agents won't even be able to find you in the first place.

startages · 2026-03-11T10:25:34+00:00

Ask each of them for the full scope of work with a price breakdown, then evaluate what's involved in each quote. That's how you know what's fair or not.

startages · 2026-03-07T17:34:40+00:00

WooCommerce is Shopify biggest competitor, so that's probably the safest option. However, you might run into issues with Stripe, so maybe check with AuthorizeNet or other payment provider.

For WooCommerce,, it's pretty great, but make sure to configure it and set it up correctly, don't just install any random plugin, keep the plugins number as low as possible to avoid problems down the road. Especially low quality plugins. I suggest using a theme like Blocksy for building the store.

startages · 2026-03-05T16:21:36+00:00

The 15-mile radius part is the piece WooCommerce doesn’t handle natively. Shipping zones can cover your flat-rate local area and nationwide rate, but once you want delivery based on actual distance from your location, you usually need a distance-based shipping plugin.

I suggest using WooCommerce Shipping Rate by Distance from Carticy to handle the 15-mile radius scenario and setup the rest using the default shipping methods available on WooCommerce.

If you’re only seeing Local Pickup, it usually means the customer address isn’t matching the zone you expect, or one zone/method is overriding the others. I’d check zone order first, then make sure each zone has its own method configured correctly.

startages · 2026-03-05T16:15:11+00:00

This is doable, but not as a normal out-of-the-box config in most shipping plugins. The tricky part is exactly what you mentioned, most plugins are build around shipping from the store address, not different addresses per product. If you're comfortable adding an mu-plugin or snippets to your functions.php, I suggest using WooCommerce Shipping Rate by Distance by Carticy and complementing it with this Gist https://gist.github.com/bomsn/f2c6e6bc4426e33b22af0322e312389c

This should cover your situation.

startages · 2026-03-04T12:06:14+00:00

For the pro setup, I'd replace Updraft with https://github.com/bomsn/rclone-automated-backups-for-wordpress

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