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The fix lists from the latest run of every prompt set, core sets first, then fastest expected ranking gain: prompts a fix could flip per working day, each weighted by what it has left to win (one minus its recommended rate over the last two weeks; named, for an info prompt). Mark a fix with the commit or pull request you submitted for it; open leaves out the ones you have. A later fix for the same page stays open, with what was tried before.

Statusall 1open 1

Priorityall 1high 1

Siteall 1elsewhere 1

Gapall 8documentation 7third-party 1

Setall 6Finding out whether AI assistants recommend us 1Getting recommended instead of a competitor 2Choosing an AI visibility tool 1Cheap Seats head to heads 1Open-source and self-hosted AI visibility 1

Get Popcorn listed on openalternative.co's AI visibility tracking category high third-party effort S flips 2 Cheap Seats head to heads

Where: https://openalternative.co/categories/ai-visibility-tracking
Must say: Submit Popcorn to openalternative.co with this description: MIT license, self-hosted single Docker container, Claude/OpenAI tracking, link to github.com/metcalfc/popcorn. List it as an open-source alternative to Profound, Peec AI and Otterly. The searches surfaced OneGlanse because it was verifiably 'MIT licensed, self-hostable'; Popcorn needs the same verifiable listing on the page the assistant actually read.
Done when: Popcorn is listed on openalternative.co/categories/ai-visibility-tracking and a re-run of prompt 6 search finds github.com/metcalfc/popcorn instead of saying 'no open-source project by this name found'.
Displaces: https://github.com/oneglanse/oneglanse
Why: P6: 'could not verify a public open-source project under this name... no official repository, license, or documentation found'.

Prompt for Claude Code
# Get Popcorn listed on openalternative.co's AI visibility tracking category

When buyers ask an AI assistant the questions below, it doesn't recommend us, or recommends us for the wrong reasons. This is a third-party gap: the roundups and comparisons the model reads leave us out.

## The questions it affects
- Is Cheap Seats a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools?
- What are the downsides of self-hosting Cheap Seats to measure AI search visibility?

## What the assistant said
P6: 'could not verify a public open-source project under this name... no official repository, license, or documentation found'.

## Who wins the question today
https://github.com/oneglanse/oneglanse. Read it and make sure our version answers everything it does, better.

## Your task
We need to be included on https://openalternative.co/categories/ai-visibility-tracking. Read that page first, work out the right way in (editor contact, submission form, PR, comments), and draft exactly what to send: a short, factual pitch covering the points below, in the page's own format.

## What it must say
Submit Popcorn to openalternative.co with this description: MIT license, self-hosted single Docker container, Claude/OpenAI tracking, link to github.com/metcalfc/popcorn. List it as an open-source alternative to Profound, Peec AI and Otterly. The searches surfaced OneGlanse because it was verifiably 'MIT licensed, self-hostable'; Popcorn needs the same verifiable listing on the page the assistant actually read.

## Done when
Popcorn is listed on openalternative.co/categories/ai-visibility-tracking and a re-run of prompt 6 search finds github.com/metcalfc/popcorn instead of saying 'no open-source project by this name found'.

## Rules
- Don't invent numbers, benchmarks, prices, capabilities or customer names. Where a fact is needed and you can't find it in the repo or on our site, leave a clearly marked TODO saying exactly what to measure or who to ask.
- Answer the questions above directly and early on the page, in the words buyers use. AI assistants quote pages that state the answer plainly.
- Keep it scoped to this one fix. When you're done, summarise what you changed and list any TODOs.

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