We took the top 3 Product Hunt launches and asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude the exact questions their buyers ask: “Best browser for Claude Code?” “How do I track agent run costs?” “Best open-source Grok alternative?” Nine answers. Zero mentions. AI sent their buyers elsewhere. That’s how AI search works. It pulls from pages it trusts—listicles, Reddit, comparisons, YouTube. If you’re not there, you’re not in the answer. MentionBird helps you fix that.
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Salil, maker of MentionBird.
I spent a decade helping brands get found on Google. Then buyers started asking ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity "what's the best X for Y" instead, and most brands had no idea what AI was saying about them. When they checked, the answer usually stung: years of Google rankings, and still not named.
AI answers aren't built from your rankings. They're built from the sources AI trusts: review sites, listicles, forums, publications. If you're not in those, you're not in the answer.
MentionBird makes that visible and fixable: - Enter your company and URL, and it finds the buying questions that matter in your category - It tracks daily which brands ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude name in their answers, and which sources those answers are built on - The Answer Agent turns that into a ranked action plan: which sources to get into, what to publish or fix, ordered by impact and effort
Recently shipped: a rebuilt Answer Agent and a new YouTube Answer Agent.
For the Product Hunt community: your first 3 months of Starter is $19 with code PH19.
I'd love to hear from you: which AI answer in your category would you most want to win?
Tried out the tool, really good onboarding. Question - does the Starter plan surface a list of competitors who ARE showing up for the prompts? Or must you add competitors yourself in order to track them? I'm thinking of local service businesses, like a plumber for example. They might not know who to compare themselves to, or they might input competitors who aren't ranking either, so their own picks wouldn't help as much as if MentionBird suggested some. Congrats on a great tool at a great time!
Salil, being able to open the actual answer behind a mention rate stood out to me. That should make it easier to understand what changed before deciding what to work on next. Congrats on the launch!
How do you determine the prompts that potential customers could ask from AI about the product?
Congrats on the launch! Curious to know how this is different from tools like Profound & scrunch etc?
Hey Salil, congrats on the launch. I see you have an Answer Agent. When the Agent make recommendations and someone follows through on all of them, do you guarantee results?
Congrats on the launch, Salil! AI answers shift a lot between runs and with each user's memory and location. How many times do you sample each buying question per day before calling a brand "mentioned"? And do you show that as a share of answers or a single snapshot?
Like the idea behind it.
One suggestion: I would add the demo video to the landing page :)
Congrats on launching MentionBird! Hope today's going well. We're launching Benson alongside you: https://www.producthunt.com/products/benson-2. Would appreciate a comment or some support if you have time today. Good luck with the launch!
MentionBird.ai has been designed specifically to help you find out how your brand performs in AI search and what you should do next in marketing to win more AI answers and customers who now ask AI.
About MentionBird on Product Hunt
“Ahrefs for AI Search”
MentionBird launched on Product Hunt on October 13th, 2026 and earned 136 upvotes and 17 comments, placing #6 on the daily leaderboard. We took the top 3 Product Hunt launches and asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude the exact questions their buyers ask: “Best browser for Claude Code?” “How do I track agent run costs?” “Best open-source Grok alternative?” Nine answers. Zero mentions. AI sent their buyers elsewhere. That’s how AI search works. It pulls from pages it trusts—listicles, Reddit, comparisons, YouTube. If you’re not there, you’re not in the answer. MentionBird helps you fix that.
MentionBird was featured in Marketing (469.5k followers), SEO (38.2k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (480.9k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 223.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted MentionBird?
MentionBird was hunted by Kevin William David. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Want to see how MentionBird stacked up against nearby launches in real time? Check out the live launch dashboard for upvote speed charts, proximity comparisons, and more analytics.
Kevin William David
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Salil, maker of MentionBird.
I spent a decade helping brands get found on Google. Then buyers started asking ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity "what's the best X for Y" instead, and most brands had no idea what AI was saying about them. When they checked, the answer usually stung: years of Google rankings, and still not named.
AI answers aren't built from your rankings. They're built from the sources AI trusts: review sites, listicles, forums, publications. If you're not in those, you're not in the answer.
MentionBird makes that visible and fixable:
- Enter your company and URL, and it finds the buying questions that matter in your category
- It tracks daily which brands ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude name in their answers, and which sources those answers are built on
- The Answer Agent turns that into a ranked action plan: which sources to get into, what to publish or fix, ordered by impact and effort
Recently shipped: a rebuilt Answer Agent and a new YouTube Answer Agent.
For the Product Hunt community: your first 3 months of Starter is $19 with code PH19.
I'd love to hear from you: which AI answer in your category would you most want to win?