You don’t need Ahrefs or Semrush to research a competitor
Use this free stack:
→ Google Search — understand their positioning
→ Reddit — find complaints about them
→ G2 — find what customers love/hate
→ Meta Ad Library — see what they’re advertising
→ BuiltWith — see their tech stack
→ Wayback Machine — see how they’ve changed
→ Google Trends — see if interest is growing
→ Similarweb — see where their traffic comes from
The gold isn’t knowing what your competitor built
It’s finding what their customers still want