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Introducing OpenSEO, the open source alternative to Semrush and Ahrefs.
I started building it out of spite because the existing tools were too expensive, bloated or scammy.
Since then, we've gotten 4k stars on Github and are launching on Product Hunt today.
Hope you support!
I got banned in December 🫡
The r/OpenSource subreddit has officially banned anything using AI. In any way. Violators will be permanently banned.
Which means… r/OpenSource will ban anyone submitting anything that, in any way, involves… the Linux kernel.
reddit.com/r/opensource/comm…
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Today we're launching @agent_relay
Your team’s agents shouldn’t need YOU to copy-paste their conversations.
Agent Relay lets them read each other’s sessions, ask questions, and hand off work across the tools your team already uses.
Keep using the Codex mac app, Claude in the terminal or even tools like Conductor.
Open source. Free to try our cloud.
agentrelay.com
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Introducing Shepherd Robotics (YC F26).
We build robots for skilled physical work in data centers and advanced manufacturing—from hardware testing and inspection to wiring and assembly—with qualified technicians supervising.
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Local Rank Grids now available through the /local-seo skill!
Local Rank Tracking coming to the app very very soon 🎯
New on @openseo_so: Local SEO reports!
* Ask your agent about any local business
* See where it ranks on a live Google Map
* Get your next move to rank higher
Check it out: openseo.so
i had not considered the electric fences...
Introducing seo.party/?x - a community skill library for OpenSEO.
We keep our "official" skills simple, but we hear so many great ideas from the community.
We built this to be the place for these.
Check it out and share your favorite skills!
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You don’t need a neo cloud, just use @alchemy_run with CloudFlare / AWS and enjoy best DX + safety
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Excited to officially launch @LarkAgents today!
Our first customer is already saving 50 hours a week with Lark, automating ERP data entry and deciding what to reorder.
Lark combines AI with inventory optimization algorithms to recommend what to order, when, and how much, helping teams reduce stockouts and excess inventory.
Teams can review recommendations and set limits on what Lark does automatically.
No one I’d rather be building with than my brother @michael_wxng.
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Today we're announcing @with_kiwi_ai: your GTM agent's data engineer.
Kiwi syncs your GTM stack into a data lake, shows the SQL behind every agent step, and turns every approval, edit, or decline into an eval. Backed by @ycombinator.
Learn more at withkiwi.ai
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Now I've set up the AI Visbility feature of @openseo_so
(helps you choose questions to track and see whether AI answers mention your brand)
it's very easy:
1. get an @OpenRouter API key
2. set it to the env var OPENROUTER_API_KEY
3. deploy
and then you get:
> Prompt Research
> Prompt Explorer
> Prompt Tracking
- Prompts
- Competitors
- Citations
Crazy they open sourced this AMAZING SEO / AIO tool
Just set my self hosted OpenSEO MCP too
soe EASY to do (screenshot 1):
Cloudflare -> Zero Trust -> Access controls -> Applications -> Edit OpenSEO app -> Additional settings -> OAuth
in it, enable:
1. Managed OAuth
2. Allow localhost clients
3. Allow loopback clients
thats it, now you have available https://[YOUR_WORKER_OPENSEO_URL]/mcp
then you copy the setup prompt, paste it to your AI Coding agent and log in
now you have the tools and skills ready to use (Screenshot 2)
then you can run /seo-coach, /seo-report /keyword-reaserch (and many more), everything gets stored in your app (screenshot 3)
and of course you can ask your agent to make code changes, update metas, titles, H1 based on the OpenSEO data
it's trully AMAZING!
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Exa is used by new AI agents like Instinct and Town.
It works differently from traditional search engines or how ChatGPT currently searches.
If they get adopted by larger agents like Grok Bot or Claude, learning how it works now could payoff big.
Turns out your #1 rank on Google tells you nothing about where you stand on Exa, which is what AI agents are actually searching.
Ran the same 20 queries through both and they only agreed on 4.5%. So why wouldn’t you optimize for both? Full breakdown:
Dealing with confusing government processes is the future I'm excited about with AI
Today we're launching @VeezaAI (YC F26) - an AI tourist visa agent for people with weak passports.
Yes, you read that right. Weak passports.
If you have a US or EU passport, you book a flight and go. For the rest of the world, every trip starts with forms, bank statements, and fighting for an appointment.
We've suffered through this for 30 years. Those days are coming to an end.
Pick your destination. Veeza AI does the paperwork and books the appointment.
start at: veeza.ai
Ben retweeted
Small businesses don't need a website builder. They need someone to do their marketing. They need Theo.
@theo_site (YC F26) is the AI agent that builds - or rebuilds - your site, then works 24/7 to get you found on Google and in AI search.
You run the business. Theo does the marketing. Free audit: theo.site
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hey. here's a little demo of the most meaningful improvement to my productivity since speech-to-text.
Has anyone tried optimizing for Exa?
Exclusive: Instinct is using Exa for web search
We gave Instinct URLs for nonexistent pages on a website we administer. Since the requests were for fake pages and the timing matched our conversation with Instinct, the requests couldn’t plausibly have come from anything else.
In total, it made about 12 requests over an hour and a half. We checked Cloudflare analytics and the server’s raw request logs to get the full picture.
A few things stood out:
- Instinct used Exa to fetch pages. Every direct fetch arrived with the user agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ExaUser/1.0; +crawler.exa.ai/exauser), from a different IP each time.
- Exa signs its requests (Web Bot Auth, Signature-Agent: "crawler.exa.ai"). But nothing in the requests identifies Instinct. They are indistinguishable from those of any other product built on Exa.
- In one test, after the fetch returned a 404, Instinct loaded the page in its browser without being asked.
- Instinct’s browser had no self-identifying features. It looked like standard Chrome on desktop Linux from a residential IP address, with no bot user agent or signature.
We directly asked it to use the browser in two other tests. All three browser visits came from the same residential IP over about 80 minutes. The browser kept its cache between visits, consistent with a persistent browser behind a residential proxy. We can’t say whether that IP is stable over longer periods or shared with other users, so it’s not a reliable way to identify Instinct.
This presents unique challenges for marketers hoping to track Instinct traffic to their site. Unlike ChatGPT, Claude, or Meta, Instinct doesn’t send its own user agent or signature. Its fetches look like generic Exa traffic, and its browser visits look like a normal user’s.
All of this means you can’t track, allow, or block Instinct specifically. The only reason we could link these requests to Instinct was that we controlled the URLs and the timing. For normal traffic, you don’t have those luxuries.
Link to it on sunbeam: sunbeam.ai/thoughts/instinct…
