Launching GetIndexed: an honest beta announcement

TL;DR

GetIndexed is in closed beta today. 13 free SEO tools are live at /tools, the dashboard works, billing is wired (Stripe test mode), and the rate-limited public API ships next sprint. Lifetime deal at $499 is capped at the first 200 customers — after that, it disappears for good.

If you've been waiting for an Ahrefs/Semrush alternative that doesn't cost $99–$500/mo, you're looking at it.

The pitch in one line

Same SEO tools the pros use. One-fifth the price. Free tier that's actually free — no credit card, no signup gate.

That's it. There's no growth-hacking gimmick under the hood.

What's live as of beta

13 free, no-signup SEO tools, all hitting real data:

• Word Count, Readability, Keyword Density, Schema Generator — pure-function tools, instant
• SSL Certificate Checker — real TLS handshake, A-F grade
• Meta Tag Analyzer — fetches the URL, grades title/description/canonical/OG/Twitter
• Google Index Checker — site: SERP parse
• Broken Link Checker — fetches the page, HEADs every link (cap 100, concurrency 5)
• Page Speed Checker / Core Web Vitals / Mobile-Friendly Tester — real Google PageSpeed Insights API
• Domain Rating — real Open Page Rank lookup
• SEO Score Card — flagship: pastes a URL and composes 5 sub-tools into a single 0–100 grade with a "top 5 wins" list

Every tool: real cache (Upstash Redis), real rate limit (10/h guest, 100/h Pro), real usage logging (SHA-256 IP, never raw).

What I've actually tested

Being straight with you because building-in-public means receipts:

• 121 automated tests pass — 102 unit, 19 security
• Typecheck clean. Lint clean with --max-warnings=0
• Full Playwright drive of the whole app captured 27 screenshots: anonymous homepage → real Supabase login → dashboard → Cmd+K palette → 5 settings pages → all 13 tools (each with real input → real response rendered) → logout → re-login
• Curl smoke against every tool returns real data: github.com SSL → B, 64 days left, Sectigo cert; example.com PageSpeed → 100/100 mobile + desktop; example.com Score Card → 62/D with breakdown

What I have NOT tested yet (and that matters)

I'd rather you read this than discover it the hard way:

1. Cache hit < 50ms in production — measured ~370ms in dev (down from 483ms with the Sprint 6 fast-path refactor). Production next start should be far lower because dev's turbopack overhead disappears, but I haven't deployed yet.
2. Real Google OAuth signin — works in code, not yet driven end-to-end in Playwright.
3. Password reset email flow — Resend is sandbox-restricted to my verified address right now, so synthetic test accounts can't actually receive the reset email.
4. Upgrade-required UX — code path is right, no Pro-locked tool exists yet to exercise it.
5. Status page real data — /status is wired with stub data today, real uptime checks land Sprint 9.

The bet

I think the SEO tools market has overbuilt for enterprise and underbuilt for the rest of us. Most indie SEOs, agency owners, and bloggers don't need 90% of what Ahrefs does — they need: (a) monitoring that yells when Google deindexes their best post, (b) a fast technical audit when something feels wrong, (c) AI content tools that don't price like ChatGPT Enterprise, and (d) a clean API so they can wire it into their own work.

That's what GetIndexed ships. At $29/mo or $499 lifetime, the unit economics make sense without VC funding.

Pricing, plainly

• Free — All 50 tools (13 live today, 37 lifting from coming-soon → live over the next 5 sprints), 1 project, GSC.
• Pro $29/mo — 10 projects, unlimited audits, AI content tools, API access.
• Lifetime $499 (capped at 200) — Pro forever. When the 200 slots are gone, this offer is gone permanently.

India billing in INR via Razorpay. Global via Stripe. No surprise FX charges.

Roadmap, transparently

The full sprint plan is at /roadmap. Sprint 7 (this one) ships the marketing site, programmatic SEO foundation, and consent-banner wiring. Sprint 8 ships real billing. Sprint 9 lights up GSC integration + observability. Launch is Sprint 11.

How to try it

Hit /tools — no signup, no card, just run any of the 13 live tools.

Signup at /signup gets you a project + the dashboard. If you want a lifetime slot, it's here — slots remaining will be visible at the top of /pricing once Sprint 8 lands.

Why I'm publishing this now

Building-in-public + write-up-the-receipts is how this gets better. If you spot a bug, hit support@getindexed.com. If a tool returns wrong data, send me the input — that goes straight to the top of my list.

Thanks for reading.

—Surya