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2d ago

Is traditional Technical SEO dead, or just evolving into "Agentic UX"?

I've been researching how autonomous agents (Claude, Google Jarvis) traverse websites, and I'm noticing a massive gap. Sites that score 100 on Google Lighthouse are literally crashing AI agents because of DOM bloat and missing ARIA semantics. We just launched a tool today to physically measure this "Agentic Friction," but I'm curious what the community thinks: Should front-end devs be designing...

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2d ago

Sounds like a good opportunity. But I wonder if this supports organic growth or if it's tailored more to "bigger" players who may have more bandwidth to participate in competitions and what other terms are attached to winning this money.

Pitch your product. Win $1M+

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3d ago

To answer your questions: yes, I have built something(s) for customers I didn’t have, back in the app-gold-rush days. If I were to count the number of hours I spent on them x a moderate hourly rate + other supporting expenses then I’d probably come close to your number. I share your frustration, but I’ve moved on since, and I started talking to customers to seek “real” problems to solve, but we...

We spent 6 months building for enterprise. Nobody bought it.

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3d ago

Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Samir — a Tech & Cybersecurity Professor and the solo founder of GEO Stellar. Over the last few months, I noticed something the marketing world wasn't talking about: the next wave of AI search isn't just language models reading your content — it's autonomous agents physically navigating your website. Tools like OpenAI Operator and Google Jarvis are already getting...

GEO StellarSee your website the way AI agents do — then fix it

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3d ago

We simulated how autonomous AI agents navigate the top 100 US SEO agencies — and 83% had never configured robots.txt for AI crawlers. GEO Stellar runs the same audit on your site: exposing why AI agents can't cite you, and generating the exact code to fix it. Built by a cybersecurity researcher. Now in Alpha. #Alpha #SEO #GEO #AISearch #AgenticAI #GenerativeEngineOptimization

GEO StellarSee your website the way AI agents do — then fix it

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3d ago

Is traditional SEO officially a waste of time for early-stage startups?

I’ve been analyzing top agency and SaaS websites over the last few months, and the data is pretty staggering. Traditional SEO (optimizing for Google's passive crawler, building backlinks, keyword stuffing) feels completely disconnected from how users are actually finding software now through generative engines. We noticed that sites ranking #1 on traditional Google are often completely ignored...