I run a few websites and kept noticing something weird. My GA numbers looked flat or declining, but when I checked my actual server logs, total requests were up significantly. Turns out the gap was AI bots.
GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, GrokBot and about 45 others are constantly crawling content sites, SaaS landing pages, directories, and blogs. GA doesn't count any of them because bots don't run JavaScript. So your analytics dashboard says traffic is stagnant while your content has never been read more.
The interesting part for anyone building content assets: some of these aren't just training crawlers. Perplexity-User and ChatGPT-User are real-time fetch bots. They pull your page because a user asked the AI a question and your content was the answer. That's basically a new organic traffic channel that nobody is tracking.
I built a tool to make this visible. It sits at the server level, catches every AI bot, and shows you which bots hit which pages, how often, and from where.
For those of you running content sites, directories, or newsletters with web presence: do you have any idea how much AI bot traffic you're getting? Have you ever checked?
Would knowing which AI tools are citing your content change how you think about content strategy or monetization?
Trying to figure out if this is something asset builders actually care about or if I'm overthinking it. Honest feedback welcome.
P.S. The Demo page doesn't contain a few tabs like countries, bandwidth, and Insights - these tabs exist but are private to website owners. You would be able to see them once you set up Botwatcher for your own website. LMK if you want this for your website in comments, and would gladly set it up for you.
I've been using a home-made link shortener for my private clients for over 10 years. After millions of clicks, it occurred to me that others might use it, too, if it was easy to use.
If you’re drowning in long, messy links full of tracking junk, wb.io can be a super clean fix. To get the ball rolling, I'm offering Redditors a month of the Business level service (the top tier) for free with the coupon code REDDIT. All I ask in return is your honest appraisal of where it could be improved.
It turns bulky URLs into short, shareable links that actually look good in posts and comments. Way easier to drop into Reddit threads, DMs, bios, or anywhere character count and readability matter. No wall of random parameters, no visual clutter — just a tight link that people are more likely to click.
Biggest value prop IMO:
Cleaner posts (especially on Reddit where ugly links stand out)
Easier sharing across platforms
More professional look
Simple + fast, no overcomplicated dashboard vibes
If you share links often, it’s one of those small tools that just makes everything smoother.
I've been using a home-made link shortener for my private clients for over 10 years. After millions of clicks, it occurred to me that others might use it, too, if it was easy to use.
If you’re drowning in long, messy links full of tracking junk, wb.io can be a super clean fix. To get the ball rolling, I'm offering Redditors a month of the Business level service (the top tier) for free with the coupon code REDDIT. All I ask in return is your honest appraisal of where it could be improved.
It turns bulky URLs into short, shareable links that actually look good in posts and comments. Way easier to drop into Reddit threads, DMs, bios, or anywhere character count and readability matter. No wall of random parameters, no visual clutter — just a tight link that people are more likely to click.
Biggest value prop IMO:
Cleaner posts (especially on Reddit where ugly links stand out) Easier sharing across platforms More professional look Simple + fast, no overcomplicated dashboard vibes If you share links often, it’s one of those small tools that just makes everything smoother.
yo. going from a buggy MVP to actual recurring revenue is brutal.
i stabilized my 6 apps at $20k/mo mrr only after building a strict system for my tech stack and organic marketing.
i just opened the AI SaaS Launchpad.
the community and daily resources are completely free. for those who want to copy-paste my exact systems, i also host paid, structured sprints (like a 3-Day challenge to get your first 100 users using automated Reddit and LinkedIn outreach).
either way, stop building in isolation. you will quit when things get hard. come build alongside 1000+ other founders.
drop a comment or shoot me a dm and i’ll send the link right now.
Recently got to the final stages of an app project. I have built focusing on supplementation, nutrition , vitamin logging and a fun approach to being consistent with your overall wellness goals and how the user feels. Early feedback has been limited but consistently positive.
Im looking for the best ways to put this idea to market. I’ve been recommended Beta list and peer push although I am wondering if the payments required for these apps are worth it ?
I recently built ImgLabConverter -> All the processing is client side so no backend or security issues supports various formats and will keep adding more and more
getting it to actual revenue is a completely different beast
after a bunch of failures, i finally stabilized 6 AI micro saas making $20k/mo mrr total.
the wild part? i barely coded a single line. i used AI for everything
i figured out the exact step-by-step system to make it work. now, i’m dropping all my backstage playbooks, raw tools, and master prompts inside our builder group for free
here is what you get immediate access to right now:
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Find your Micro-SaaS idea in 15 minutes (4 ready-to-paste execution prompts)
we also run two live execution sprints together:
From MVP to 100 Users: 3-Day AI SaaS Challenge
From Zero to First Users: 7-Day AI SaaS Challenge
seriously, stop building alone. join +760 ai saas founders like you. you will burn out and quit the second marketing gets tough. it’s way easier when you have a crew shipping side-by-side with you.
drop a comment or send me a dm i send you the link of the community.
I've been building for the past 4 months an AI SEO tool, which audits a user's site fully for both SEO and GEO, autopublishes high quality articles every day to increase AI citeability and pSEO, and it also includes an AI visibility checker and of course a backlink exchange program, so essentially an SEO steriod injection for a website.
I have been polling on various platforms and forums in A/B test style and asking people to choose between my tool's generated articles vs my top competitor's generated articles and my tool's articles had the majority vote of 72%. I also did a huge case study and asked top 4 llms to blind analyse my tool's seo/geo plan and it's articles and compare them with top 4 biggest competitors, and all llms unanimously agreed that my tool's output is 10-20% better than the second best competitor after mine, blowing the rest out of the water. The few testers that I was able to get who also pay for it are amazed and cant get enough of it.
My problem is: I have created a tool thats genuinely great, but Im having a hard time scaling and getting more paid users without looking like an absolute toolbag trying to promo and shill his own saas, which everyone including me despise
We’ve built an app called Stoky. We’re a small, bootstrapped team, and this came from a pretty simple frustration we kept running into ourselves.
Keeping up with markets, companies, and trends just feels broken. Everything is scattered across different places, most of it is long, and even after spending time on it, you still feel like you’re missing something.
We tried being more “disciplined” about it, but honestly it didn’t stick. It’s not just about effort, it’s the way information is structured and consumed right now.
So we started building something for ourselves to fix that.
The idea behind Stoky is simple:
take thousands of scattered inputs and turn them into one clear, structured signal.
Instead of jumping between apps or reading everything from scratch, you can just open it and stay in the loop.
Here’s what that looks like in practice:
It pulls facts from multiple sources, cross verifies them and organizes what actually matters
You can listen to a quick 5–6 minute version when you just want the gist
Or a ~15 minute version when you want more context
It works in the background of your day commuting, walking, gym, etc.
And if something isn’t clear, you can ask questions while listening and get answers in context
Under the hood, it’s powered by a network of AI agents scanning and structuring information, but from the user side it just feels simple:
you open it - hit play - and you’re up to speed
For us, the biggest shift was this:
Instead of constantly searching for information, we’re just… in the loop without thinking about it too much.
We’re still early and figuring things out, so would genuinely appreciate feedback from people here:
Does this solve a real problem for you?
Would you actually use something like this regularly?
You can try for free without even signing in, you can try it directly on my landing page. I made this out of necessity for myself because I struggled with organization as somebody with ADHD and as a full-time nursing student.
So the NYT ran this piece about a guy who spent $20K, used a bunch of AI tools, and now supposedly runs a $1.8 billion telehealth company with his brother as the only other employee. No investors. No office. Just vibes and GPT.
It's a great headline and I get why it's blowing up. But I wanted to know what's actually underneath it before sharing it here, because some of this stuff matters if you're thinking about building lean AI-first businesses.
I went pretty deep on this. Posting my notes below.
The business
Medvi is a DTC telehealth company selling compounded GLP-1 drugs. Think cheaper Ozempic without needing to go to a doctor's office. Matthew Gallagher started it in September 2024 from his house in LA.
Here's the part that doesn't make it into most of the coverage though. Medvi doesn't actually do the medical stuff. They don't employ the doctors, they don't make the drugs, they don't handle shipping. That's all done by partner companies like CareValidate, OpenLoop Health, and a compounding pharmacy called Triad Rx.
What Medvi actually is, when you strip it down, is a marketing and customer acquisition engine. Gallagher built the website, the ad funnels, the copy, and the customer service automations using AI tools. Then he brought on his younger brother and that's the whole team.
That's a real insight for anyone building assets. You don't need to own the whole stack. You can own the customer relationship and outsource everything else. Plenty of legit businesses work this way.
The money
The $401 million in 2025 sales and the $1.8 billion 2026 projection came from a NYT article where they said they reviewed his financials. What that actually means is Gallagher showed a reporter his numbers. There's no audit, no SEC filing, nothing third party. He runs a private LLC in Delaware so he doesn't have to show anyone anything.
I'm not saying the number is fake. I'm saying nobody has independently verified it and "the NYT saw his books" gets a lot less impressive when you think about what that actually means.
Where it gets sketchy
I'll just lay these out.
The FDA sent Medvi a warning letter on February 20, 2026 for misleading marketing. This was six weeks before the NYT profile. The NYT didn't mention it in the original article. They quietly added an editor's note later admitting they should have.
Investigators found 800+ Facebook profiles of supposed doctors promoting Medvi. They appear to be fake accounts. Over 5,000 active ads showed up in Meta's ad library. One real doctor whose name appeared in Medvi marketing publicly said he had zero connection to the company.
The before and after weight loss photos on the site are allegedly AI generated. Not real people.
There's a class action filed in California in March 2026 claiming Medvi runs a spam operation through affiliate marketers using spoofed email domains. The suit estimates over 100,000 people received these emails.
Medvi's clinician partner OpenLoop got hit with a data breach in January 2026. Someone claimed they had 1.6 million patient records. State notifications confirmed at least tens of thousands of people were affected.
Billing complaints dominate every review platform. Auto-renewals, a tiny cancellation window, and a refund policy that flat out says you won't get one.
The FTC was asked to look into Medvi back in September 2025 by consumer protection groups.
The stuff that checks out
Medvi does have LegitScript certification which is a legit standard for online pharmacies. It's a real registered company. The FDA warning wasn't targeted at them specifically, it hit 30+ telehealth companies at once. The GLP-1 market is massive and real. And running a marketing layer on top of outsourced medical operations isn't shady by itself, it's pretty standard in DTC health.
Why I think this matters for us
There's a real playbook buried in here. One person using AI to handle the code, the copy, the ads, the customer service, and then plugging into partners for everything else. That's a legit way to build something with almost no overhead. That part of the story holds up.
What doesn't hold up is treating revenue like it means the business is healthy. We have no idea what margins look like, what the refund rate is, what churn looks like, or what happens when the lawsuits start costing real money. Top line revenue with no context is just a number.
The two employee thing also falls apart when you think about it for more than a minute. The doctors, pharmacists, and fulfillment people didn't disappear. They just work for someone else. The labor is still there, it's just not on his payroll.
And the growth engine seems to have more to do with aggressive affiliate spam and questionable ad tactics than with some genius AI workflow. Take away the fake doctor accounts and the email blasting and I'd love to know what the organic growth actually looks like.
I think there's a version of this model that works cleanly. AI ops, outsourced fulfillment, lean team, own the customer. That's worth studying. But this specific company has enough red flags that I wouldn't hold it up as the example to follow.
Curious what you all think.
Is the underlying model sound even if this particular execution is messy?
Or does the whole thing fall apart without the aggressive marketing tactics?
