Rohit Gite

Two brands can offer similar products, target the same audience, and have equally strong websites, yet one consistently appears in AI-generated recommendations while the other barely gets mentioned.

We've been exploring how factors beyond a brand's own website, including third-party mentions, reviews, comparisons, and category authority, influence these recommendations.

When I started building, I used my own tool all the time. That was kind of the whole reason I made it. I had a problem, nothing out there fixed it the way I wanted, so I built something.

But lately I ve noticed something.

Most of my time now goes into fixing bugs, answering emails, thinking about pricing, writing posts... and I barely use the product the way a normal user would anymore. I open it to test things, not to actually get stuff done with it.

And I m not sure if that s a problem or just what happens as things grow.

On Product Hunt, I can see many people launching their products using "vibe-coding tools" like @Lovable , @bolt.new , or@Replit

I reckon many people who created something with them are usually developers who didn't have enough time for building a side idea before, but with AI, they could make it happen.