So here is my thank-you list: the idea each of you gave me, and what I changed because of it
Shortly: IvaBot is an SEO and AI-visibility audit tool. It checks your SEO, checks how AI engines see and cite you, and writes content from real SERP keywords. You get a report, and you can ask its chat anything about SEO or AI search.
Across two posts here I gathered a lot of specific advice, and I rebuilt real parts of the product around it.
Before: a report with a list of fixes, plus a chat. Credits came in fixed packages, one per tool.
After: the same report and chat, plus a dashboard that tracks your data over time, and one shared credit wallet you spend however you want. The biggest work went into AI visibility, and you can now see citations, brand mentions, and track prompts.
Here is the idea each person gave me, and what I did with it. Big thanks for every one of them.
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@goldenweeks advised not just to show a score, but to show the gap: not only that you aren't cited, but who shows up instead of you. What I did: AI Readiness now shows which prompts mention you, the tone of each mention, and which competitors appear in your place.
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@Rosehill advised keeping the audit short and to the point instead of returning everything at once. What I did: I removed a lot of extra checks, so the report is shorter and easier to act on.
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@ramaz advised that people run an audit once and leave, so I should give them a reason to come back. What I did: the dashboard, where you can now track position gains and drops, backlink changes, your SEO score, your brand's AI citations and mentions, and how you show up for prompts in Google AI, Perplexity, and ChatGPT.
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@julianrubisch advised locking security down properly: check permissions on every request, not just whether someone is logged in. What I did: exactly that, across the whole app.
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@StartUpKing and the trust-signals thread advised that my real edge is my SEO experience and being a visible real person, not being one more tool. What I did: the product leads with that now.
Still on my list, from @Studio81Labs, @Prokopiy, @dailydosebriefs: the dashboard should change on its own between visits, so the plan is an auto-refresh that checks your brand citations once a week.
Now I'd love new feedback, especially from people who do SEO for their own product, or care about GEO and AI search:
- Is this enough for you, or would you want to track deeper?
- Is the dashboard clear? I tried to keep it simple and not overload it.
Run it and tell me here, I'll reply to everyone.
There were far more responses than I can list, and not only about code and marketing. Many were simply kind, supporting my path as a non-technical solo founder who runs purely on an idea and a big love for SEO. Thank you to each of you.
Link: ivabot.xyz
The new dashboard that tracks mentions across Google AI, Perplexity, and ChatGPT is a really smart move, most tools are still focused on old-school SEO, but GEO is becoming increasingly important for people to get visibility into, giving credit to specific individuals by name for their contributions is also a good practice, it likely encourages more genuine feedback in the long run, rather than less, this approach not only acknowledges the efforts of those involved but also fosters a culture of transparency and accountability, by recognizing the value of GEO and the people behind the changes, we can better understand the impact of these tools and make more informed decisions going forward.
Thank you for reading it carefully.
On GEO, that matches what I keep seeing in client work. Classic rank tracking still answers a real question, but it stops being the whole picture the moment an answer engine summarises your category and names three companies that are not you. So the dashboard tracks both sides on the same page: Google positions, backlinks and the on-page score from Core Audit, and citations, brand mentions and prompt results from AI Readiness across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overview.
On crediting people by name, I did it because the advice was specific enough to act on. A general comment is easy to nod at and forget. When someone tells me that a score without the gap is useless, and I can point at the exact screen that changed, naming them is just accurate reporting.
If you have a site of your own, I would rather have your answer to the two questions at the end than a compliment. Run it on one page and tell me whether the tracking is deep enough for you, and whether the dashboard reads clearly on first open. Those are the two things I cannot judge from the inside.
Appreciate you pushing for the actual test instead of just the compliment, that's fair. I want to run it properly rather than rush through it just to reply fast, so give me a bit and I'll come back with a real answer on both, the tracking depth and whether the dashboard reads clearly on first open.
Thanks for the honest reply!
By the way, I forgot to add something important.
Feedback, and rebuilding around feedback from potential users, is the part I actually understand now. That loop makes sense to me.
What I am still stuck on is the other half: where do I find real customers? The SEO side I know, that is my background. But marketing my own product, actually getting it in front of the people who would pay, is the part I have no map for.
So a genuine question to this thread: beyond SEO, how would you approach marketing and finding real users for a tool like this? Any advice welcome, I am here to learn.