AppTime
AI recommends. Don’t get left behind.
AppTime Cite is a browser extension for Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Firefox. When a buyer asks an AI for an answer, your business is one of the sources it cites — product awareness you do not buy as an ad.
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You are cited
matchBrand and domain matched in the answer. Cite stores the result locally and drafts a brief when competitors appear instead.
Cited
Status
ChatGPT
Host
Local
Saved
The problem
Advertising used to be bought. Now the answer names a few businesses.
A person asks an AI which product to use. The reply cites a handful of sources. That mention is free advertising — unpaid product awareness inside the recommendation. If you are not one of those sources, you are not in the conversation.
Product
One extension. The browsers people already use.
Set your brand and the questions buyers ask. Run a check. See who the answer names, and get a brief when you are missing. Cite runs in Chrome. Safari, Edge, and Firefox are the same extension, shipped for your company. It does not read the pages you browse, and a check does not guarantee you get cited.
Setup + check
Configure brands, domains, and competitors — then run your buyer questions through Gemini.
History
Results stay on your machine in chrome.storage.local. No account.
Briefs
When you’re not cited, Cite drafts a short brief you can act on or share with us.
How it works
See whether AI already advertises you
01
Setup brands
Add your brand, domain, competitors, and the questions your buyers actually ask an AI.
02
Run a prompt check
One click asks those questions and shows whether the answer cites you, and who it names instead.
03
Act on briefs
When you are missing, Cite drafts a short brief. A check measures awareness. It does not guarantee you get named.
Who it’s for
Built for brands that need to be cited
Founders
When a buyer asks an AI which product to use, your business should be one of the sources the answer cites.
Agencies
Show clients the unpaid awareness they already get — or miss — when AI answers name a brand.
Marketers
Ads are bought. A citation is product awareness inside the answer. Track it before the category locks to someone else.
How we build
Six steps from pain to proof
Whether we’re shipping Cite or rescuing a client SaaS, we run the same discipline: clear promise, real plumbing, and verification before launch — agents accelerate the work; we keep the judgment.
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Pain
Start from a real market problem — primary research, competitor gaps, and honest fit — before writing product code.
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Promise
Lock one clear sentence: what you get, who it’s for, and why it matters. That line drives the hero, waitlist, and scope.
03
Product
Architecture first, then ship a usable V1. Agents accelerate build; humans stay project managers of judgment.
04
Plumbing
Auth, data, APIs, payments, and deploy done properly — sandbox first, then production keys — so it scales past a demo.
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Packaging
Brand, UI, and store/waitlist surfaces that feel buyable: consistent design system, not AI-slop chrome.
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Proof
Hostile QA, end-to-end journeys, and security review. We fix launch blockers before customers find them.
AI build pitfalls
What breaks after the demo looks done
Patterns we keep seeing in vibe-coded and agent-built products — captured from production rescues and public SaaS build courses. Read deeper on the pitfalls article.
UI without pain
A generated interface is not a validated problem. Research first — or you ship a demo nobody needs.
Vague promise
If the landing page cannot say what you do in one sentence, agents invent scope and customers bounce.
Plumbing last
Auth, roles, Stripe webhooks, and env secrets are where vibe-coded apps die on day one.
Same-model QA
The builder model misses its own bugs. Use a hostile second pass before you invite users.
UI as the moat
Scaffolding is copyable. Durable edge lives in prompts, data, and workflow IP.
No security gate
Exposed keys, open tables, and IDOR show up after launch. Proof includes a real security review.
Architecture skipped
The code writes itself. Architecture, roles, and data boundaries do not. Skip them and you ship a brittle demo.
Never leaves the laptop
If it cannot take a real user, a payment, and a rollback plan, it is still a hobby — not a product.
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Want the same extension under your brand, on Chrome and the other main browsers? AppTime also ships full-stack apps, agentic AI, automation, SaaS rescue, and security work.