A designer and engineer worked together to ship a production-ready MVP in four weeks using Rails + Inertia. In this post we share how we built @thicket, our agentic coding stack, the skills we built, and what worked: https://t.co/Pt8C7hNy0m
Reddit just DESTROYED Google SEO
And this graph says it all
Reddit now pulls over a billion visits a month from Google
Google trusts those threads, and ChatGPT was trained on every one of them
So when your brand gets into the right threads, it starts showing up in AI answers about your category
There’s no six months of grinding content to get there
This is the exact method we used to rank a B2B SaaS #1 in ChatGPT with a 825% traffic growth in 3 months
I put the whole system in one guide:
- the subreddits that get pulled into AI answers fastest
- the exact post format ChatGPT cites
- how to get mentioned without it looking like an ad
- the 3-step play we run for every client
180M+ people are asking ChatGPT for recommendations right now
The early movers are the ones getting named
Want the full Reddit playbook?
Just follow me + comment "Reddit" and I'll send it over
Ahrefs' Domain Rating endpoint is now free! You don't even need an API key.
I built a tool to show it off (and possibly send you some visitors?) 🎉
The idea is simple: Enter your site, reveal your DR, and find other sites with the same score.
If you like, you can also submit your domain to be one of the recommendations, and potentially get some visitors sent your way.
See it in action over on detailed dotcom /dr/
Of course, I'm not expecting this to go viral in any way, but you might reach a few marketers and webmasters in your niche.
The idea is a little cheesy, I know, but I had to test out the new endpoint myself.
Simplified, DR aims to show the strength of a website's backlink profile compared to other sites in the Ahrefs database.
It works on a 0-100 scale, and can be useful for quick competitor benchmarking, link prospecting, outreach prioritization, and more.
To give some context on the numbers...
Wikipedia: DR 97
Ahrefs: DR 91
YCombinator: DR 91
Tinder: DR 82
Detailed: DR 73
Even if you're not technically savvy, it's still super easy to use. Point your AI assistant of choice straight to the Ahrefs API docs, and it will figure out the rest.
Hopefully you find this new endpoint useful in your workflows! 🙌
the market you pick matters MORE than the product you build
most founders pick one that's already crowded, then act shocked when growth is rough
the outcome was mostly decided the day they chose the game
in a crowded market the leaders already own your buyer's attention
they showed up first and earned the trust, so they're the default your buyer reaches for without thinking
your buyer has a go-to before they ever hear your name
now you're paying to break a habit, and that burns more time and money than most founders have
the smarter move is picking a market that's still forming
one worth entering looks like this:
- no brand everyone already names
- buyers duct-taping their own fixes
- the category has no clean name yet
- the options that exist are mediocre and unchallenged
HubSpot won a market exactly like that
they named and owned "inbound marketing" before it was even a category, while everyone else was busy fighting over CRM
you can win without being the best when nobody's there to beat you yet
so spend more energy choosing the game than playing it
En ce moment la mode c'est de changer la favicon en ajoutant un fond coloré pour mieux être visible sur la serp. Amazon vient de le faire à suivre sur Google.
Most home service owners plant their Google Business Profile at their office and fight for the whole city from there.
Here's a better move: pull up the fastest-growing zip codes in your market first.
Proximity is still one of the strongest ranking factors in the map pack. The closer your profile sits to the houses searching, the higher you show up for them. So the question isn't "where's my shop," it's "where's the new money moving."
In most metros it's the same story. New developments going up on one edge of town. Families with $400k+ homes leaving the urban core for the suburbs. Whole zip codes that barely existed 10 years ago now packed with your exact customer.
Find that area. Look at who's ranking there now (often a no-name with 80 reviews, not the big franchise). Then put your next profile as close to that growth as you legitimately can. You'll rank for the people actually buying, instead of fighting 10 competitors over the saturated core.
Quick overview of how to set up a new GBP there the right way:
> Get a real office. A 400 sq ft shoebox works, as long as it has its own door, its own suite number, and you can put a permanent sign out front with your business name.
> Prep your verification documents: lease info, a utility bill or customer invoice, a DBA or business registration at that specific address, and the permanent sign.
> Be ready to do the video verification, that's the step Google leans on most now.
Do it clean and you've got a compliant second location pulling leads from a market your competitors can't reach.
Reddit earns $2.2B+ a year.
They are making money from,
Ads, license, and Reddit Premium.
They have 1.3B+ monthly active users.
Its valuation is $32B+ currently...
We made one simple change to page design and it boosted 500+ keyword rankings.
We wrote SEO copy for the primary collections for this brand, as we always do.
But the brand was firm that it must get buried below FAQs, customer reviews, and some other custom page elements.
You had to scroll 7-8x just to see the text.
We pushed the brand for months to move it up, as it'd likely result in higher rankings and more organic search revenue.
Finally, they did.
One week later, tons of new rankings, including #2 for mattress, one of their main KWs that gets 33k searches/mo.