PRACTICAL GUIDES
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Practical guides for choosing AI tools and for building, pricing and launching AI products, backed by sources and our own data.
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How to evaluate an AI tool before adding it to your stack
A practical checklist for comparing AI tools by task, evidence, failure behavior and maintenance cost.
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How AI products price in 2026: free plans, credits and the $20 tier
We checked the public pricing pages of 116 AI products. Most offer free usage, $20 a month is the usual entry price, and half meter usage with credits.
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How to get your AI product found by ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity
Which AI crawlers to allow, what they need to read on your site, and what 182 AI product sites actually do today.
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SEO basics for a new AI product site, and where established products slip
Titles, descriptions, share images, sitemaps, JavaScript and renames: what 158 AI product homepages get right and what new founders should copy.
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An AI product launch checklist: Product Hunt, Hacker News, X and directories
What to prepare before launch day, the posting rules of each channel, and the mistakes we see most often while listing 199 AI products.
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AI products that were renamed, acquired or shut down: what we tracked in 2026
Renames, acquisitions, pivots and shutdowns we found while maintaining a catalog of AI products, with sources.
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Open-source AI tools and their licenses: MIT, Apache 2.0, AGPL and source-available
What the licenses behind popular open-source AI tools allow, with examples from our catalog. Not legal advice.
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