--- title: I Built roastme.gg: Pay to Get Roasted by AI | daily.dev description: An indie hacker recounts building roastme.gg, a pay-to-get-roasted-by-AI site built with Next.js, Stripe Checkout, Claude, and Neon Postgres, shipped in a few... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-built-roastme-gg-pay-to-get-roasted-by-ai-nerr7uzf7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I Built roastme.gg: Pay to Get Roasted by AI | daily.dev og:description: An indie hacker recounts building roastme.gg, a pay-to-get-roasted-by-AI site built with Next.js, Stripe Checkout, Claude, and Neon Postgres, shipped in a few... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-built-roastme-gg-pay-to-get-roasted-by-ai-nerr7uzf7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/neRR7UZF7.png og:image:alt: I Built roastme.gg: Pay to Get Roasted by AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I Built roastme.gg: Pay to Get Roasted by AI **[Alex CloudStar](https://daily.dev/sources/alexcloudstar)** · [@alexcloudstar](https://daily.dev/alexcloudstar) · 14 min read · 11 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary An indie hacker recounts building roastme.gg, a pay-to-get-roasted-by-AI site built with Next.js, Stripe Checkout, Claude, and Neon Postgres, shipped in a few days. The bulk of the piece is a live experiment testing Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): using GPT-5's web_search tool to check whether the brand new site got cited by ChatGPT for generic queries before and after adding static FAQ content and structured data (FAQPage, Service/Offer, CreativeWork schema). Before fixes, the site appeared only for its own name; after adding a plain-text FAQ page with real pricing and stats, ChatGPT began pulling accurate details from that page for the branded query, though generic category queries still didn't surface the site, attributed to indexing lag and lack of third-party mentions. The author also notes llms.txt showed zero measurable citation benefit in a study of 300,000+ domains, and that Google killed FAQ rich results in May. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Does adding an llms.txt file actually improve how often AI search engines cite a website? No measurable citation advantage has been found. Multiple independent studies, including one covering over 300,000 domains, found zero measurable citation benefit from having an llms.txt or llms-full.txt file, and no major AI company has publicly committed to reading it in production. Effort is better spent on visible, fact-dense page content instead. _Developers weighing GEO tactics can compare real findings like this one on daily.dev before spending time on low-impact fixes._ ### Does adding an FAQ page with specific numbers help a new website get cited by ChatGPT search? Yes, static content with specific facts and numbers measurably improves AI citation. After adding a dedicated FAQ page with plain-language explanations, real pricing tiers, and live database counts, ChatGPT's web search began quoting the pricing data almost verbatim and citing the FAQ page directly as the source, whereas before the fix it only returned a generic answer sourced from the homepage. Research from Princeton and Georgia Tech found inline citations and specific statistics increase AI citation rates by roughly 35 to 40 percent. _Anyone optimizing a site for AI answer engines can track approaches like this one through daily.dev._ ### How long does it take for ChatGPT search to pick up new content on a brand-new website? Roughly one to three weeks. ChatGPT's search index runs on Bing, and new content from a domain with zero prior authority and no backlinks typically takes that long to be picked up, with citation share in competitive categories depending more on third-party mentions than on the site's own page copy. _Builders tracking how AI search engines index new sites can follow real-world timelines like this on daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@lurxie** · 1 upvotes > So you charge people money to insult their own websites, proving that their most impressive feature isn't their tech stack—it's convincing users to pay for feedback they could get for free from any Reddit thread. > > Genius. **@agustinbarrientos** · 1 upvotes > The same cold-query set should run again after three weeks so the follow-up compares indexing time without moving the benchmark --- Tags: [#nextjs](https://daily.dev/tags/nextjs), [#claude](https://daily.dev/tags/claude), [#seo](https://daily.dev/tags/seo), [#indie-hacking](https://daily.dev/tags/indie-hacking) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/i-built-roastme-gg-pay-to-get-roasted-by-ai-nerr7uzf7) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"I Built roastme.gg: Pay to Get Roasted by AI","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-built-roastme-gg-pay-to-get-roasted-by-ai-nerr7uzf7","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-built-roastme-gg-pay-to-get-roasted-by-ai-nerr7uzf7"},"datePublished":"2026-08-21T18:12:47.363Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T10:00:17.760Z","description":"An indie hacker recounts building roastme.gg, a pay-to-get-roasted-by-AI site built with Next.js, Stripe Checkout, Claude, and Neon Postgres, shipped in a few...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/b52c536d05b90616038fb0442fc4cce0?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/b52c536d05b90616038fb0442fc4cce0?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Alex CloudStar","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Cloudstar","url":"https://daily.dev/alexcloudstar","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--xA-1aKK7--/f_auto/v1767564650/avatars/avatar_ZUjetzkwG7V5behQOpH0X?_a=BAMAK+ZW0","description":"Hi there! 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