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20 points by seandotexe ↗ HN
With AI, it's faster than ever to ship a marketing site... but most of what gets generated is slop that was never built to be found. Plus the tools meant to catch that fall short: most SEO auditors cost money, don't play nicely with your agents, or tell you what's wrong without telling you how to actually rank for SEO and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization: being cited by AI search like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews).

crawlie fixes that! It's 100% free, it's local-first, it's agent-native (MCP baked in!), and every issue it finds comes with why it matters and how to fix it.

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SeriousM
That's nice! I like that it also checks for the llms.txt. It seems to me that no SEO agency is aware of this simple but powerful file.
mathisdev7
Nice, thanks!

edit: in the docs, the command to install the npm package seems to be wrong (crawlie doesn't exist), it should be: npm i -g @spronta/crawlie

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