u/Disastrous_Long_5844

I run a small AI visibility tracker that I built myself, and last week I found something in my own pipeline that I have not seen anyone talk about.

I ask each question 7 times per platform so I can show a range instead of a single number. One week Perplexity came back much lower than usual for every domain I track. I assumed those brands had actually lost ground.

They had not. Perplexity was rate limiting me. About 30% of my requests were coming back 429, and my code was quietly counting those as "not mentioned" instead of "not measured". So that platform was being scored on 5 runs while the others got 35, and the smaller sample dragged the number down.

The fix was not sending fewer requests. It was spacing them out. The limit turned out to be roughly one request per second per account, and two scans running at the same time were stepping on each other.

Here is why I am posting it. A failed measurement and a real absence look identical once they land in a chart. My tool now prints how many runs failed right under the percentage, because I could not trust my own number until it did.

So if you are evaluating any of these tools, including mine, that is the question I would ask. Not how many platforms, not how many prompts. Ask what happens when a request fails, and whether the report tells you.

Disclosure: the tool is AnswerRadar and it is mine. Not linking it, this is not a pitch.

형님들 제가 바이브 코딩으로 사스형 웹사이트를 이번에 처음 만들어봤는데 혹시 피드백 가능하신분있을까요? 원래 전공이 개발자도아니라 잘하고 있는건지 정말 모르겠습니다ㅠㅠ

아 그리고 마케팅이 진짜 벽느껴집니다 지나가는 은둔고수분께서 알려주시면 정말 감사하겠습니다

링크는 댓글달면 바로 알려드리겠습니다!!

혹시 다들 맨날 듣고 있는 자신만의 옛날 띵곡있나요??

저는 개인적으로 효린의 미치게 만들어 맨날 듣습니다 ㅎㅎ

다른분들의 숨은 띵곡도 들어보고 싶습니다!!

레딧에는 제가 한번도 본적없는 카르마 시스템이 있던데 지금 제가 카르마가 28정도인데 많이 낮은편인가요? 들리는 말로는 대형 커뮤니티는 카르마가 낮으면 글도 못 쓰고 노출이 거의 안된다고 들어서요

보통 카르마가 얼마정도 되어야 레딧에서 인정해주는지 궁금합니다 행님들 😃

안녕하세요 레딧 찍먹만해보다가 한국 커뮤를 발견해서 처음 인사드립니다. 앞으로 잘 부탁드려요ㅎㅎ

I launched my first web product two and a half months ago. Before that I had never built anything. Nobody warned me that the hard part isn't launching, it's that afterwards you get numbers and no idea what they mean.

Here's where I am. Somewhere between 20 and 40 visitors a day, roughly 70% of them from organic search. One real signup. Revenue is zero. There are affiliate links on the site and they have earned essentially nothing, so I've stopped counting that as income.

So is that a failure, a normal start, or just too early to say? I honestly don't know.

Some days 30 people feels great, because three months ago it was zero and nobody knew the thing existed. Other days it feels like I built something for an empty room. What bothers me is that I decide which one it is based on my mood that day. That's obviously not a system.

The deeper problem is that I never set any criteria before launching. I just built it and shipped it, and now I'm inventing the scoreboard after the game already started. That feels backwards, but I don't know what I should have written down instead.

So, for people who've done this more than once:

1. Two or three months in, what number actually tells you to keep going? Traffic? Retention? One person paying? Something else I'm not thinking of?

2. Is there an early signal that separates a slow start from a dead product? Or does everything look identical at the beginning?

3. How long did you give a project before you called it? Did you stick to that line, or move it?

4. Did you write down kill criteria before launch? If you did, what did it actually say?

Encouragement is nice but it doesn't help me decide anything. I'd rather hear the honest benchmark now than find out in six months that I was measuring the wrong thing the whole time.

(It's a search tool for cosmetics, Korean market. Leaving the link out on purpose. This is a real question, not a plug.)