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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 4documentation 3third-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 AI visibility tracking category high third-party effort S flips 3 Open-source and self-hosted AI visibility

Where: https://openalternative.co/categories/ai-visibility-tracking
Must say: Submit a Popcorn listing to this directory, which shaped the P1 answer. The listing should state: MIT licensed, a single Docker container, search and recall tracks, and a ranked fix list. Link the listing to the new comparison and self-hosting pages rather than only the repo.
Done when: The Popcorn listing is live on openalternative.co, and a rerun of prompt 1 on search shows Popcorn at a position better than 17.
Displaces: https://openalternative.co/categories/ai-visibility-tracking/using/drizzleorm
Why: P1: shaped by openalternative.co/categories/ai-visibility-tracking; Popcorn was at position 17

Prompt for Claude Code
# Get Popcorn listed on openalternative.co 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
- Are there open-source tools for measuring AI search visibility?
- Is there an open-source alternative to Profound or Peec AI?
- We want to track AI answer visibility without sending our data to another SaaS vendor. What are our options?

## What the assistant said
P1: shaped by openalternative.co/categories/ai-visibility-tracking; Popcorn was at position 17

## Who wins the question today
https://openalternative.co/categories/ai-visibility-tracking/using/drizzleorm. 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 a Popcorn listing to this directory, which shaped the P1 answer. The listing should state: MIT licensed, a single Docker container, search and recall tracks, and a ranked fix list. Link the listing to the new comparison and self-hosting pages rather than only the repo.

## Done when
The Popcorn listing is live on openalternative.co, and a rerun of prompt 1 on search shows Popcorn at a position better than 17.

## 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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