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Curated product directory and weekly leaderboard for indie makers and solo founders

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BuiltByMe scores 77 of 100: 40 of the 50 base points, 36 of the 50 agent-layer points, no penalties.

Earned

40 of the 50 base points above the line, 36 of the 50 agent-layer points below it.

77

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18

Still open

Behind the checks below, with prompts in Pro.

5
Penalties0
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Through a bot’s eyes

“BuiltByMe is a curated product directory and weekly leaderboard for indie makers and solo founders to showcase software and discover tools.”

Simulated from the response GoodForBotsBot received on , not a live answer from any AI assistant.

What it can read, and what stays hidden →

What a bot can read

A language model reading the provided text learns that BuiltByMe is a directory and community platform for indie developers and bootstrapped teams. The homepage content outlines current weekly rankings, top makers, and active product sponsors. The provided llms.txt file substantially expands on this by detailing specific directory statistics, category counts, listing plans with pricing details ($9 launch plan and $19 sponsor plan), contact information, RSS feed endpoints, and a comprehensive list of eighteen free SEO and AI visibility tools provided directly on the site. The JSON-LD schema adds structured organization data including foundational metadata, search actions, and social profile links.

What is BuiltByMe?

BuiltByMe is a curated product directory and weekly leaderboard designed for indie makers and solo founders. It helps independent developers and bootstrapped teams showcase their software products to users, earn backlinks, and discover tools built by others.

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The platform lists hundreds of approved products across various categories such as AI tools, SaaS, productivity apps, developer tools, and marketing software. In addition to the product directory, BuiltByMe offers a blog with guides on marketing and SEO, maker profiles, and a collection of free browser-based SEO and web utility tools for developers and solo founders. Listing options include a free queue, a paid launch plan, and sponsor placement.

3 prompts, 17 points

For Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. The score moves after the next scan.

+10score from 77 to 87

Serve Markdown when asked for it

None of the 4 pages read pass. Asking the homepage for markdown still returns text/html.

Read prompt

+5score from 87 to 92

Mark up content so a reader can find it

2 of 4 pages read pass; 2 partly. The homepage is partly structured: The outline jumps from h1 to h4, which the standard forbids.

Read prompt

+2.5score from 92 to 94

Declare AI usage preferences

No usage declaration found in robots.txt or the final successful homepage response header.

Read prompt

Pro

14 more prompts in Pro

Pro shows a prompt for every fix and drafts your llms.txt and robots.txt. It never changes the score.

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Readable base

40.4 / 50

Passes.

3.3 of 3.3 points.

robots.txt is valid, with 5 user-agent groups.

Passes.

8.3 of 8.3 points.

Sitemap declared in robots.txt, listing at least 200 URLs.

Passes.

8.3 of 8.3 points.

3 of 4 pages read pass. The page at /blog publishes no structured data at all: no JSON-LD, no microdata, no RDFa.

Half passes.

5 of 10 points.

2 of 4 pages read pass; 2 partly. The homepage is partly structured: The outline jumps from h1 to h4, which the standard forbids.

Passes.

8.3 of 8.3 points.

6 of 6 assessed homepage navigation links expose usable destinations.

Half passes.

2.1 of 4.2 points.

129 of 130 assessed homepage links and buttons have a nonempty accessible name.

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Fails.

0 of 2.5 points.

1 of 4 assessed homepage form fields meet the static naming and field-semantics checks.

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Passes.

2.5 of 2.5 points.

134 of 134 assessed homepage controls and role declarations meet the static role, state and relationship checks.

Passes.

1.7 of 1.7 points.

All 4 pages read pass. The homepage declares itself as its canonical URL.

Agent layer

36.3 / 50

Passes.

11.3 of 11.3 points.

/llms.txt is well formed: 28 links across 7 sections.

Passes.

7.5 of 7.5 points.

/llms.txt is descriptive: a summary plus descriptions on 100% of links.

Passes.

12.5 of 12.5 points.

/llms-full.txt serves the site's content as markdown (at least 64 KB).

Fails.

0 of 10 points.

None of the 4 pages read pass. Asking the homepage for markdown still returns text/html.

Passes.

5 of 5 points.

States a position on 6 AI crawlers, across 3 purposes (training, user-fetch, search).

Fails.

0 of 2.5 points.

No usage declaration found in robots.txt or the final successful homepage response header.

Penalties

− 0

Passes.

Penalty: 0 of 15 points.

Our crawler reaches the page without being challenged.

Passes.

Penalty: 0 of 20 points.

Nothing on the homepage tells a crawler to skip it or to withhold its snippet.

Passes.

Penalty: 0 of 25 points.

The captured homepage HTML contains 298 content words; completeness is not assessed.

Passes.

Penalty: 0 of 25 points.

robots.txt allows every known search and user-fetch crawler to reach the homepage.

Passes.

Penalty: 0 of 10 points.

The homepage is served over HTTPS and returns HTTP 200.

Passes.

Penalty: 0 of 3 points.

The homepage provides both a non-empty title and meta description.

Passes.

Penalty: 0 of 3 points.

The homepage is reached in 0 redirects.

Passes.

Penalty: 0 of 3 points.

The homepage reached a plain crawler in 134 ms.

Agent capabilities

0 of 11 · no points

Each one found adds +1 to the badge.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No API catalog published.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No /auth.md published.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No AI Catalog published, so no MCP server card can be discovered.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No A2A Agent Card at /.well-known/agent-card.json, and none listed in an AI Catalog.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No usable Agent Skills index was found at either well-known path or in the AI Catalog.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No WebMCP declarations were found in the collected HTML or inline scripts. External scripts were not inspected.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No Web Bot Auth key directory at /.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No HTTP 402 payment challenge on the homepage or robots.txt, and no manifest at /.well-known/x402.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No ACP discovery declaration established at /.well-known/acp.json.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No UCP discovery declaration established at /.well-known/ucp.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No public AMP discovery declaration established. Private or hidden agents may not advertise one to our crawler.

Access & usage policy

Who can read this page, and for what purpose?

GoodForBotsBot received HTTP 200 via a direct request. No indexing restriction was observed in the supported homepage directives.

Sampled URL: https://builtbyme.io/

Declared crawling rules

No matching refusal for this URL was found for the listed identities.

Sources and scope: declared crawling rules
  • Declared allow · Scan admission

    • GoodForBotsBot/1.0 (+https://goodforbots.com/bot)

    The recorded robots admission decision allowed our crawler to proceed.

    GoodForBotsBot admission along the homepage request chain

    https://builtbyme.io/

    robots.txt is present and valid

  • Declared allow · robots.txt

    • goodforbotsbot (Site diagnostics)
    • * (Default robots group)
    • claude-searchbot (ai-search)
    • mistralai-index (ai-search)
    • kimi-searchbot (ai-search)
    • amzn-searchbot (ai-search)
    • meta-webindexer (ai-search)
    • exasearchbot (ai-search)
    • aiwebindex (ai-search)
    • duckassistbot (ai-search)
    • shapbot (ai-search)
    • yandexadditional (ai-search)
    • yandexadditionalbot (ai-search)
    • mistralai-training (ai-training)
    • kimibot (ai-training)
    • ai2bot (Unknown)
    • applebot-extended (ai-training)
    • webzio-extended (ai-training)
    • claude-user (user-fetch)
    • perplexity-user (user-fetch)
    • mistralai-user (user-fetch)
    • kimi-user (user-fetch)
    • amzn-user (user-fetch)
    • diffbot-user (user-fetch)
    • firecrawlagent (extraction)
    • webzio (extraction)
    • meta-externalfetcher (user-fetch, agent)
    • meta-externalagent (ai-training, product-improvement)
    • amazonbot (ai-training, product-improvement)
    • ccbot (open-dataset, ai-training)
    • googlebot (search)
    • bingbot (search)

    No matching refusal for this URL in the applicable robots group. This is a declaration, not an access test.

    Acquisition of https://builtbyme.io/

    https://builtbyme.io/robots.txt

    User-agent: *
    allow: /

    robots.txt is present and validStates a position on AI crawlersAllows search and user-fetch crawlers

  • Declared allow · robots.txt

    • oai-searchbot (ai-search)
    • gptbot (ai-training)
    • chatgpt-user (user-fetch)

    No matching refusal for this URL in the applicable robots group. This is a declaration, not an access test.

    Acquisition of https://builtbyme.io/

    https://builtbyme.io/robots.txt

    User-agent: gptbot
    User-agent: chatgpt-user
    User-agent: oai-searchbot
    allow: /

    robots.txt is present and validStates a position on AI crawlersAllows search and user-fetch crawlers

  • Declared allow · robots.txt

    • perplexitybot (ai-search)

    No matching refusal for this URL in the applicable robots group. This is a declaration, not an access test.

    Acquisition of https://builtbyme.io/

    https://builtbyme.io/robots.txt

    User-agent: perplexitybot
    allow: /

    robots.txt is present and validStates a position on AI crawlersAllows search and user-fetch crawlers

  • Declared allow · robots.txt

    • claudebot (ai-training)
    • anthropic-ai (Unknown)
    • claude-web (Unknown)

    No matching refusal for this URL in the applicable robots group. This is a declaration, not an access test.

    Acquisition of https://builtbyme.io/

    https://builtbyme.io/robots.txt

    User-agent: claudebot
    User-agent: anthropic-ai
    User-agent: claude-web
    allow: /

    robots.txt is present and validStates a position on AI crawlersAllows search and user-fetch crawlers

  • Declared allow · robots.txt

    • google-extended (ai-training, grounding)

    No matching refusal for this URL in the applicable robots group. This is a declaration, not an access test.

    Acquisition of https://builtbyme.io/

    https://builtbyme.io/robots.txt

    User-agent: google-extended
    allow: /

    robots.txt is present and validStates a position on AI crawlersAllows search and user-fetch crawlers

Observed access

GoodForBotsBot received HTTP 200 via a direct request.

Sources and scope: observed access
Coverage and interpretation
  • Crawler coverage includes the registered identities and up to 50 user-agent entries from robots.txt. Source excerpts and detail groups are bounded; omissions are labelled.
  • Observed access describes GoodForBotsBot only. Other crawler entries describe declared rules, not tests of those operators' access.
  • Coverage is the sampled homepage response and collected robots.txt files. No indexing or citation is guaranteed. Usage preferences are declarations, not a legal determination of permission.
  • This explanation adds no points or penalties. Any score effects belong to the linked checks.
  • AIPREF and Content Signals keep their own definitions. AIPREF search can include processing used exclusively for search; training preferences are not a blanket ruling on every search process.

In its category

3rd of 19 in Directories & Aggregators

Whole category →
  1. 1SwipeToLaunchswipetolaunch.com
  2. 2SaaS Cubessaascubes.com
  3. 3BuiltByMe · this reportbuiltbyme.io

The prompts above would take BuiltByMe to 94, 2nd in its category.

To the prompts ↑

Category average 59. The percentile appears once the catalogue holds a few hundred sites.

Scanned

Site profile

Login
Detected
A sign-in or sign-up link
API
Not established
Commerce
Not established

It decides which conditional checks apply. “Not established” means no proof in what we read, not proof of absence.

Scan details

Every scan is kept. Pro draws the history as a chart →

Scanned
20 Oct 2026
Rubric
0.9.0
Requests
23
Fetched
5.2 MB
Took
26.5 s
Homepage
134 ms · direct
Pages read
4
robots.txt
allowed
Which pages the scan read

The homepage and up to three pages from the sitemap and homepage links. Structured data, page structure, Markdown negotiation and typed links check each page read and take the median page; other checks read the homepage.

  • Homepagealways read
  • /blog/cleansmart-review-no-code-crm-data-cleaningarticle · linked from the homepage · from the sitemap · read
  • /products/afterlaunchproduct · linked from the homepage · read
  • /blogcollection · linked from the homepage · from the sitemap · read

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