Hesham Mashhour

Hesham Mashhour

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Cambridge-trained MD who ended up building content machines. I build AI content systems: pipelines that research, fact-check, get a human veto, and publish into Webflow or WordPress — n8n, Cloudflare Workers/Workflows and custom code. Founder of HarperFlow, launching here Sep 23, and Nodey. Verified n8n creator; 9 Cloudflare Workers in production. I like tools that solve problems I'm personally annoyed by. Consulting at hesham.us.

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Maker History

  • Better Search Lab
    Better Search LabSelf-hosted, open-source SEO and AI-visibility tool
    Sep 2026
  • Nodey
    NodeyYour n8n command center, now on your phone
    Jun 2026
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    Joined Product HuntFebruary 15th, 2026

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3d ago

Better Search Lab - Self-hosted, open-source SEO and AI-visibility tool

Better Search Lab is a free, self-hosted alternative to Ahrefs, Semrush and SE Ranking. Rank tracking, keyword and competitor research, site audits, backlinks, a weekly ranked list of what to do next, and AI-visibility scans of Perplexity, ChatGPT and Gemini. AGPL-3.0, no seats or credits: you pay only DataForSEO's pay-as-you-go data, about $0.37 to map a 150-keyword site. One command to install.
HarperFlowp/harperflow•

1mo ago

We ran 100+ AI-citation audits before launching. Here's what actually gets cited.

Before writing a line of product marketing, we audited 100+ real business sites: same buyer questions, asked live to ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, then we read every page the engines cited. What the cited pages have in common:

  • 77% are list/comparison formats ("best X", "X vs Y") the format wins before the brand does

  • only ~31% carry original data (tests, benchmarks, surveys) which is wild, because engines love citing numbers. Most sites simply don't publish any numbers or original data.

  • named authors and real depth (~3,000+ words on cited pages) show up constantly and on Perplexity, Reddit is the most-cited source on ~87% of questions

The uncomfortable summary: most companies aren't invisible to AI because they're bad they're invisible because their content isn't in the formats AI quotes. That's the gap we built HarperFlow for: a blog-on-autopilot engine, built to be cited every article fact-grounded with 8 12 cited sources and ~13 20 minutes of live research by the pipeline, published straight into your CMS.

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1mo ago

We're using our own product on our own blog to enhance our AI search visibility | HarperFlow

Last spring, I asked ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini the same buyer questions ("best X for Y") via live API and logged who they recommend. Two numbers rewired how I think about AI search visibility:

  • On ~98% of commercial questions, the engines name specific brands.

  • All three engines agreed on a common pick on just 56% of questions.

Bonus: Perplexity's most-cited source is Reddit on ~87% of questions.

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