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About Indie Stack Lab

Indie Stack Lab reviews and compares marketing tools for indie creators, in five categories:GEO & AI Search, Newsletter, SEO, Hosting & Domains, Video & Design. It also runs a free checker that shows whether ChatGPT and Perplexity cite a given website.

How we test

• Free plans and no-card trials only. We sign up for the free plan, or a trial that does not ask for a card, and never enter payment details.
• Only on our own sites. Every test runs on sites we own (ai-seo-hacker.cc and indiestacklab.com), with the same set of tasks for every tool in a category.
• Untested tools are labelled. If we have not used a tool ourselves, the article says "Compared using official documentation" and sticks to what the vendor documents.

Screenshots come from our own test accounts, with email addresses and account details hidden. We do not publish ratings, results or screenshots we did not produce ourselves.

Author: Hulk Chen

Hulk Chen runs AI SEO Hacker, a content-led SEO and generative engine optimization agency whose clients are mostly businesses in Taiwan. At Indie Stack Lab he signs up for the tools himself and writes down what the free plans and trials actually did on real sites.

Hulk Chen runs the tests and writes the reviews on this site.

Contact

Email hello@indiestacklab.com.