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My small SaaS got recommended my Google in the AI search overview

4 points by kaave ↗ HN
okay, so this is not so big to many of you , but today , i was just bored and tired of doing any marketing , cos nothing seemed to have been working. so i decided to do a search (i searched for quite a number of keywords) like error tracking for supabase , error tracking for next Js , but my saas didnt rank (if you dont know what im building , im working on a dead simple error tracker that notifies you when something breaks in prod, no bloated dashboards or config hell) , i built this cos sentry had too much noise and i just wanted something that lets me know when there's an issue in prod.

so i decided to do a search on "error tracking for shipfast(by marc lou)" and guess what ?? Bugmail was the first recommended result , now i dont know how this worked, i mean ive done some seo and stuff but i wasnt expecting it , and now i feel like im back , which is funny cos i didnt make a sale , i didnt onboard a new user yet i feel like o have conquered , life of a founder , i guess

i just wanted to share this here, also if you have any advice on how to rank higher on GSC and how to nail this marketing thing , any advice or feedback will be valuable

in the meantime , incase you want to check out what ive built;

you can check it out here ; https://www.bugmail.site

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4rb1t
just randomly opened this post thought i would chime in. Google results are personalized and since you own and visit bugmail.site its going to show up at the top. if you want a true view open incognito and preferably in a different browser where you arent signed in and then try and see where you rank. good luck!
gitbit-org
That's awesome. Congrats bud! Keep going. Keep grinding.
theorchid
Try promoting your project not with conventional SEO in search engines (GSC), but with the help of AI (chatgpt, perplexity, etc.). However, if you create a blog or articles on your website, they may not rank in AI chats. However, if you post the same content on other high-trust websites, these articles will appear in AI overviews within a week, including Google AI overviews. Along with the answer to the user's question, AI will take a link to your service from the article and offer it to the user. You can get much more traffic through gpt & perplexity than through Google search.
13pixels
This aligns with what we're seeing too. LLMs often distrust new domains but will happily cite the same content if it appears on a platform they already trust (like Reddit, Medium, or established industry sites).

Another factor we've noticed is structured data (JSON-LD). If your own site has clear Schema markup for the Product/SoftwareApplication, it seems to help LLMs 'understand' the entity better, even if they don't rank the page itself for the query. It's like giving them a cheat sheet.