Aventos
An experiment in cheap AI SEO
Details
- External ID
- 46642490
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Aventos
- Website domain
- aventos.dev
- Launched
- Jan. 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 19
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.647562582345191
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN, we built Aventos- a cheap way to track company mentions in LLMs.Aventos is an experiment we're doing after spending ~6 weeks working on various projects in the AI search / GEO / AEO space.One thing that surprised us is how most tools in this category work. Traditionally, they simulate ChatGPT or Perplexity queries by attempting to reverse engineer the search process. Over the past year, many have shifted to scraping live ChatGPT results instead, since those are signficantly cheaper and reflect more real outputs.Building and maintaining scrapers is tedious and fragile, so recently a number of SaaS products have emerged that effectively wrap a small number of third-party ChatGPT/Perplexity/Google AIO/etc scraping APIs. What felt odd to us is that many of these still tools charge $70–$200+ per month, despite largely being wrappers around the same underlying data providers.So we wanted to test a simple idea: if the core cost is just API usage and commodity infrastructure and software costs are lower because of AI, can we be a successful startup if we price near our costs?What we have so far:1. Analytics similar to other tools (tracking AI citations, AI search results, and competitor mentions)2. Content creation features (early and still being improved)We’d love feedback- especially from a non-marketing perspective on:* bugs* confusing terminology or tabs* anything that feels hand-wavy or misleadingThere’s a demo account available if you want to poke around:username: [email protected] password: passwordHappy to answer questions about what other things we've built in the space, how these tools work, etc.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI visibility and marketing tools
- Vertical
- Marketing
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ai-powered seo tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The project tracks brand mentions across LLM search engines by running programmatic prompt queries against standard LLM APIs (OpenAI, Perplexity, Anthropic) and parsing the results into a dashboard.
Discussion
16 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Profound (query sampling/monitoring tool), ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AIO, Traditional SEO tools
Concerns raised: Unclear how to sample query distribution representative of real user queries, Difficult to measure actual ROI and conversion attribution from AI search visibility, Platform seems like wrapper around third-party APIs without differentiated value, Mobile UX issues and tour modal blocking, Unclear how this differs from traditional SEO fundamentals
Feature requests: Multi-product/brand tracking at different pricing tier, Recommended actions/insights on how to improve rankings, Better mobile experience and ability to dismiss onboarding tours
Competitors
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Attention rank: #47 of 120 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 78 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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