I’m building the "Answer Engine" alternative
Hey everyone,
I’ve spent the last few months obsessed with a single realization: Google's ten blue links are no longer the front page of the internet.
When people want an answer now, they aren't scrolling through Page 1. They’re asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini. If your SaaS isn't being cited in those conversational answers, you’re effectively invisible to a massive (and growing) segment of users.
I’m building VibecodeAEO.com to solve this.
The Problem: The "Black Box" of LLMs
Traditional SEO tools tell you where you rank on a SERP. But they can’t tell you:
How often ChatGPT recommends your product.
If Gemini is hallucinating outdated pricing about your company.
Which specific data sources an LLM is pulling from to generate an answer about your niche.
The Solution: Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
I’m moving away from "vibe-based" marketing into a measurable science. I’ve been developing a platform that:
Scores AI Visibility: Tracking "share of voice" across the major LLMs.
Monitors Brand Drift: Catching hallucinations before they become "truth" in the latent space.
Audits Citations: Identifying the Knowledge Graph bridges that actually move the needle for AI discovery.
Building in Public (and Automating the Boring Stuff)
To launch this, I’m actually dogfooding my own tech. I’ve built a "Headless Agentic Submitter" using Playwright and LLMs to automate my presence across 50+ startup directories (shoutout to the Awesome-SaaS-Directories repo).
I'm curious—how many of you are already seeing a dip in traditional search traffic? Are you optimizing for "vibe" and citations yet, or still stuck on backlinks?
Happy to chat about the tech stack or the AEO logic in the comments.
