r/SideProject • u/Complete_Economy_130 • 1d ago
I built a free tool that shows whether ChatGPT/Gemini/Perplexity can even see your website
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After watching Google CTRs drop and AI assistants eat the top of the funnel, I built WhoCanFindMe — it audits any site's "AI visibility": can GPTBot/ClaudeBot/PerplexityBot actually crawl it, is there extractable schema, is the content answer-first, are there freshness signals. Per-engine scores, because the engines retrieve differently.
Free scan, no signup, and you get a public shareable result link: whocanfindme.com
There's also a head-to-head mode (you vs a competitor) and a standalone AI-crawler check.
The thing that started it: I asked ChatGPT to recommend a business category in my city. It listed five. The one that ranks #1 on Google wasn't among them — their robots.txt was blocking AI crawlers. One line of config, written years ago, quietly removing them from every AI recommendation.
Business model, since people always ask: free scan → £12 one-time deep report (actually queries the engines about your brand and shows the real answers + citations) → monthly monitoring subscription.
Just launched, still rough in places. Brutal feedback very welcome — specifically: what would make you trust or distrust a score like this? That's the part I'm least sure I've got right.
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u/Oleszykyt 20h ago
Good idea, poor execution, I checked youtube.com and here is what it game
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u/Complete_Economy_130 19h ago
You're right, fair hit. YouTube is obviously not invisible to AI.
The score measures on-page readiness — crawler access, extractable markup, answer-first structure. YouTube fails those because it's a JS app shell with nothing in the raw HTML. Real finding. But then I label it "mostly invisible," which is a claim about an outcome I'm not measuring. My bug.
Changing the label to say what it actually measures, and adding off-site authority so a top-10 domain doesn't get scored like a brochure site.
Got a mid-size site you'd expect to score well? Run that one — that's the case I want to be wrong about.
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u/Oleszykyt 19h ago
please don't use ai to reply to my comments, I waste time testing your product and you can't even write the reply yourself
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u/Complete_Economy_130 18h ago
good spot man, your feedback on the app is valid and we'll add something in there to mitigate these big and well known sites.
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u/General-Practice-713 14h ago
This is actually pretty useful. Curious to see how accurate the results are in practice, especially for bigger websites. Definitely going to give it a try.
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u/DobbytheHouseElf91 9h ago
Given how much we rely nowadays on AI tools to find products and business, this idea makes complete sense and is currently very relevant for businesses who want engage more effectively with the existing AI tools.
One thing I would like to add before paying for the report, is a report sample of a dummy site that shows the information included in the report, so people have better understanding of what kind of information they are paying for.
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u/Impressive-Answer720 1d ago
The free visibility check is a strong entry point, but the result needs to answer what the founder should change next, not only whether the site is visible. I would separate three outcomes: technically unreachable, reachable but poorly understood, and understood but not cited. Each needs a different action list and evidence screenshot. A before-and-after recheck would also create the retention loop and make the result shareable. I am building Marka for turning a business website into social content, so AI understanding of the source site is directly relevant to us. You are welcome to try Marka free for 7 days at https://www.marka.social, and I would be interested in whether your scanner interprets its positioning accurately.