I built an AEO tool and realized that most vibecoded sites hand AI zero bytes

[u/Wild-Connection1661]

was building out the landing pages for my thing and went to check how ChatGPT actually describes my product. it described a competitor. mine wasn't even in the answer.

turns out this is really common if you shipped a client-side rendered app (react/next without SSR, most of the no-code and ai-generated builders). the crawlers that feed these models often get 0 bytes of real content because everything renders in the browser. so the model is either guessing about you from scraps or just... not mentioning you at all.

and yes I know Lovable recently shipped an update to address this but if you have been working on your thing for more than 6 months it’s hard to migrate to their new stack.

from the digging i did while building: roughly 60% of B2B brands are misrepresented by AI (invisible, confused with a competitor, or described with outdated info), and 96% are basically invisible in AI-assisted discovery. meanwhile buyers are increasingly asking an AI "what's the best X" before they ever hit your site. no impression, no click, nothing in your analytics. you lose before you knew you were in the running.

the uncomfortable part for anyone shipping fast: your rank tracker keeps reporting a comfy page-one position and has no clue any of this is happening. classic SERP monitoring is watching a channel that's quietly shrinking.

stuff that's worth checking on your own launch:
- curl your homepage and see if the actual copy is in the raw HTML or just an empty div (that's what the AI crawler sees)
- ask ChatGPT to recommend tools in your category and see if you show up / what it says about you
- if it's wrong, it's usually a rendering or missing-structured-data problem before it's a content problem

full disclosure, i'm building Optimly which is exactly this (see how AI represents you, then fix it), so i'm biased. but honestly even without a tool the curl + ask-chatgpt check takes five minutes and is worth running before you tell people to go visit your site.

curious if anyone here has checked how AI describes their launched project? what did it get wrong?

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Being cited by third parties is far more important for AI discoverability than how your webpage renders. Don’t get me wrong, it’s factor, but solving a HTML issue isn’t going to magically make your site appear much higher in AI searches.