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I've been practising one check: when a developer asks an AI assistant "what should I use for X?", does a small tool in that category get named? I picked Cronhooks, a small service that fires one-time or recurring webhooks on a schedule. Not affiliated, not a client — a focused indie product in a crowded category. What I did: on Oct 9, 2026 I pasted 5 buyer-style prompts into signed-in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Grok, one new chat each. Three generic, one naming Cronhooks, one describing its exact use case. What came back (where Cronhooks first appeared): Prompt 1: "Best cron job scheduling service for triggering webhooks?" ChatGPT: not named Claude: not named Perplexity: not named Grok: named mid-list Prompt 2: "Good alternatives to EasyCron?" ChatGPT: not named Claude: not named Perplexity: not named Grok: not named Prompt 3: "Schedule HTTP requests on a cron without my own server?" ChatGPT: not named Claude: not named Perplexity: not named Grok: named mid-list (passing mention) Prompt 4: "cron-job.org vs Cronhooks?" ChatGPT: described it Claude: described it Perplexity: described it Grok: described it Prompt 5: "Webhook at a future date/time in the user's timezone, any API?" ChatGPT: named late Claude: not named Perplexity: not named Grok: named early - On the generic prompts, ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity named it in 0 of 9 answers. - On the branded prompt, all four described it. They know it exists — they just don't reach for it. - Named instead, again and again: Upstash QStash, cron-job.org, Google Cloud Scheduler, EventBridge Scheduler, Posthook, Trigger.dev, Inngest. What the site looks like to a crawler: - No comparison pages or FAQ; no competitor named anywhere. - It has an /llms.txt, but it mostly describes an AI-workflow product the homepage doesn't mention. - The About page is still template placeholder text. 3 takeaways for any small SaaS: Write the comparison page yourself. "Alternatives to X" answers get built from pages that name X. Make every description of you say the same thing — homepage, /llms.txt, docs, About. Answer your sweet-spot question in plain words. One FAQ paragraph gives assistants something quotable. Caveats: one run per prompt per assistant, chat memory not controlled, Gemini skipped. A snapshot, not a ranking. Has anyone checked how assistants describe their own product on a generic "best X" question? Curious whether others see the same gap between "knows you" and "recommends you." Disclosure: I run CiteSprint, which does this kind of check. Full write-up: https://citesprint.tech/cronhooks-sample.html   submitted by   /u/pkdodda [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/10 00:43:39