Stay up to date with the latest features, improvements, and fixes in ShubHQ.
The Growth Points system has been removed. Tools that used points now run on the monthly allowance included in your plan.
Backlink Growth Plan has been removed from ShubHQ. Its pages now redirect to Backlink Analytics.
Directory Tracker answered one question: which directories have you submitted to. That is rarely what you need to know. The two questions that matter are whether the queue is moving and whether a submission ever turned into a link. The page has been rebuilt around those, and it now hands verified listings straight to your backlink tracking.
Every record now keeps three separate dates: the day you added it to the panel, the day you submitted to the directory, and the day the listing went live. There used to be a single date trying to stand for all three, which meant it told you none of them.
On top of that sits a waiting time column. For a submission still pending it shows how many days you have been waiting; for a live listing, how many days it took to publish. Rows that have been waiting a long time are colour coded.
A status marker runs down the left of each row, the list can be sorted and filtered, and the default order puts the rows that need action first. Each row has its own edit window where name, address, dates, fee, login details and notes are all in one place.
Some directories publish your listing and link nowhere. No amount of authority on the directory changes that, and it is easy to miss, because the listing looks live.
The link type field now has a “no link at all” option. Choose it and the row gets a red marker, and that directory’s authority score is shown de-emphasised, because authority that never reaches you is misleading.
This is a fact about the directory itself, not about one listing. You see it before you spend time on that directory again.
A directory may be waiting on something from you before it publishes: a fee, an extra image, a request for information. The row showed as pending, but not why, and weeks could pass.
You can now write a short blocker label on any record. The label appears in red on the row, that row moves to the top of the list, and the summary bar tells you how many records are waiting on you.
Longer notes have their own field. Rows with a note carry a small marker, and clicking it opens the full note under the row.
Once you confirm that a directory listing gave you a link, that listing is added to your My Backlinks page automatically. If you had already added the same listing by hand, it recognises the existing record instead of creating a second one.
On the My Backlinks side these rows carry a marker showing which directory they came from, and the filter lets you list only the links that came from directories.
The page opened but the table stayed empty with a database error. Your records were never affected; only the listing query was failing. It is fixed.
Records added in the evening showed the next day’s date. Dates are now written in your own time zone.
This mattered because those dates feed the waiting time calculation. Dates on records created before the fix do not correct themselves; you can adjust them from the edit window if it matters to you.
Clicking a directory name in the list sometimes took you back into the panel instead of to the directory, because the address had been saved without https:// in front of it.
Your listing address can also be opened straight from the row now. Checking your own link no longer means opening the edit window.
The section holding the ready made text you paste into directory forms has been reorganised. Every field has a character counter beside it, and fields with a character limit warn you when you go over.
This was a quiet problem: the directory form truncates long text without saying anything, so you never find out that your last sentence did not make it into the listing.
Rank Tracker gets the biggest change in this release: every plan now includes a number of rank checks each month that cost no GP, and checks no longer hold the panel hostage while they run. The rest of the release is about billing you honestly, keeping a failed lookup from being recorded as a lost ranking, and repairing the fallback path behind AI Visibility.
Every plan now includes a set number of rank checks per month that do not spend GP. The allowance renews on the first of each month and is independent of your GP balance, so your rank tracking keeps running even if you have spent your credits elsewhere.
A badge shows how many checks you have left. Once the allowance is used up, checks continue as before and are charged to GP.
The page used to lock up while a check ran, and updating several keywords at once ended in a timeout. Checks now run in the background: press the button and carry on using the page.
Select more than one keyword and they queue up and run one at a time. Rows that are still waiting are marked in the table.
When search results could not be retrieved, the outcome was saved as “not in the top 50” and charged for. A keyword that had not moved at all could therefore look like it had dropped.
A failed lookup is now free, and your previous position is kept. When a scan cannot be completed, the panel says so.
Updating a keyword by hand could be followed shortly after by the automatic refresh checking the same keyword again. A manual check now also postpones the next automatic one.
If you press check again on a keyword that was checked within the last 10 minutes, you get a confirmation prompt first so you do not spend for nothing.
Automatic refresh runs weekly on the free plan and daily on paid plans. How often it runs is now written next to the toggle in the panel.
For accounts that have not signed in for a long time, automatic refresh pauses on its own and resumes when you come back. There is nothing to switch off and on again.
Results from automatic refresh were written to the database, but a page left open never showed them. The table now refreshes when you return to the tab and at regular intervals in the background.
Manual checks were written into the history record as costing 1 GP. The correct amount was always deducted from your balance; only the cost chart on the Analytics tab was wrong. The history record has been corrected.
Rank Tracker, Backlink Analyzer and LLM Visibility were described in the entry level SaaS plan as limited until you had data. That caveat is gone: all three are part of the plan.
The Growth OS workflow on this plan now includes every stage as well. The Rank, Authority and AI Visibility stages were previously missing from the flow.
The fallback path that takes over when the primary provider cannot answer has been repaired for brand visibility measurement. All four measurements, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, have been verified through the fallback.
The fallback had been failing silently. It went unnoticed because it only engages when the primary provider is down, and those conditions occurred for the first time on 31 August.
Trend Intelligence collects from four different kinds of source, but until now only one of them ever reached the analysis stage. Everything else was being stored and then ignored. This release fixes that, adds a new source for e-commerce, and cleans up the reporting quirks that came with it.
When a weekly report was generated, all of the content that went into the analysis came from a single source. Data gathered from the others was saved to the system but never made it into the report. Each source now has its own reserved share of the analysis. The result: reports reach past AI discussion into the practical SaaS and e-commerce topics that were being collected all along.
E-commerce reports gained a new source: the community forums where sellers discuss their actual day to day problems. Payment issues, shipping and fulfilment, app hunting and storefront design now feed into the weekly analysis.
A discussion that stayed popular for a week was recorded again every day, so the weekly analysis counted the same content several times. Entries are now deduplicated by address, and the slots that frees up go to other content.
A report generated by hand before the week is over is now regenerated automatically once the full week is in. Until then, opening it shows a partial data badge and the date its coverage actually reaches.
Weekly reports cover the last completed week by design, but the page was looking for a report for the current week and showed an unnecessary warning on every weekday visit. The warning now appears only when a report is genuinely missing.
Suggested actions in the signal list could only be produced by hand, 30 records per click. They are now populated automatically every week.
The layer that gathers content from search results stopped returning data on 26 August, which quietly starved the pipeline that feeds Trend Intelligence. It is repaired, and the safeguards below exist so a similar outage surfaces on the same day instead of showing up later as a thin report.
Content collection from search results returned nothing from 26 August onward. The cause was a change on the source side, not in your data. It has been fixed, and daily collection volume is now higher than it was before the outage.
When a source stops responding, the system now halts and reports it rather than working through the whole queue on requests that cannot succeed. That removes the processing quota that used to be burned during an outage.
The alarm threshold now compares each day against the median of the last two weeks instead of a fixed floor. A source no longer has to go completely silent to raise a flag: falling to half its usual volume is enough.
This release is a correction. While reviewing how our background jobs run, we found that several of them had been failing quietly, producing incomplete data instead of an error anyone could see. Trend Pulse was missing sentiment for four weeks, AEO scores were being calculated without three signals that should have counted, and the automatic monthly AEO audit had never completed a single run. Everything below has been fixed and the affected historical data has been recomputed from the raw records, which were intact throughout.
Between 6 July and 2 August, entity and theme charts showed mention counts but no sentiment breakdown. That matters more than it sounds: sentiment is what separates a tool that is growing from one that is having a bad week. Without it, a spike caused by an outage looks the same as a spike caused by momentum. All four weeks have been recomputed from the underlying posts, so the positive/neutral/negative split is now complete across the full history. If you drew conclusions about momentum from that period, they are worth a second look.
The week of 13–19 July produced no AI insights at all: no top tools, problems, trends or editorial summary. The underlying posts were collected normally, so that week has been regenerated and now reads like every other week.
Three signals were silently never registering in the SERP analysis: People Also Ask questions, whether your brand appears in an AI Overview, and related searches. Because AI Overview presence feeds the score, every audit run so far, from the panel as well as the monthly job, calculated a lower score than it should have. This is fixed, so expect your next audit to move. A change in your score does not mean your visibility changed; it means we are finally measuring all of it.
The scheduled monthly audit had been failing at startup on every run since it launched, so every AEO score you have seen came from an audit you started yourself. The underlying query has been fixed and the job now completes. It also reports failures instead of exiting quietly, so a repeat would surface the same day rather than going unnoticed.
The AI relevance score applied to Reddit alerts had stopped working, so alerts were arriving unranked and unfiltered. It is working again. In the first run after the fix, roughly a quarter of incoming alerts were correctly filtered out as irrelevant.
Several scheduled jobs could fail and still report success, which is how the issues above went unnoticed. Monitoring for these jobs now keys off whether they actually produced work, not merely whether the process finished. Partial hiccups stay quiet; real outages surface right away.
Backlink Analyzer is back in the menu, and this release is all about trust. Backlink data comes from a crawl-based index, which means brand-new links take time to appear. Instead of leaving you guessing, the analyzer now tells you exactly how fresh the data is, lets you pull the latest on demand, and gives you a way to track the links you already know about while the index catches up.
The full analyzer returns to the Backlinks menu: overview with Health Score, every backlink, new and lost links, referring domains, anchors, trends, history, competitors and top pages. Analyze any domain, not just your own.
A new info icon sits next to every backlink list. Hover it and you get the honest answer: a new link becomes visible once the page linking to you is re-crawled, which typically takes 30 days to 4 months depending on how often that referring site is updated. Coverage then builds up automatically over the following crawl cycles, and the timing applies to every domain equally. No more wondering whether the tool is broken when a fresh link has not shown up yet.
Paid plans get a Refresh button on the backlink list that bypasses the cache and pulls the latest data from the index on demand. If your overview shows a backlink the list has not caught up to yet, one click closes the gap.
When the index has not discovered backlinks for a domain yet, the analyzer now explains why and what to expect, instead of showing a bare zero. New domains start with a handful of links and fill in over time; the page now says so.
Google Search Console often sees your newest links before any backlink index does. My Backlinks now has an Import from Search Console button: export the Top linking sites report as CSV, upload it, and every referring domain is tracked immediately with the rest of your links.
Tracked domains now show their real auto-refresh cadence: daily on Business, every two days on Pro, weekly on Starter. The label on the Tracked Domains card reflects your plan, so you always know how current your numbers are.
We rebuilt Growth OS from the ground up. The first version proved the idea; this one turns it into a real operator that knows what day you are on, what to do today, and what to do next. Instead of a static six-step canvas, Growth OS is now a guided program that adapts to the kind of site you have and walks you through months of growth, one clear day at a time. Everything below is new in this rebuild.
Growth OS now recognizes where you are. Brand-new sites with no rankings or links yet get an MVP track: a focused, foundation-first program that skips the tools that need data you do not have. Established sites with real ranking and link data get the full track with every phase unlocked. Your plan picks the right track automatically, so you never stare at an empty tool wondering why there is no data.
This is the heart of the rebuild. New sites follow a multi-month program shown in clean 30-day periods. Growth OS knows exactly which day you are on and surfaces the tasks that are due today, from the first technical fixes to tracking setup, performance, structured data, content, directories and social. Come back after a few days away and it tells you where you left off, so momentum never quietly dies.
Not every task is a one-time checkbox. Growth OS understands three kinds of work: one-time setup and fixes, recurring habits like submitting to a new directory every couple of days or running an engagement round, and progress goals you push toward a target. Recurring tasks come back on schedule so the important habits do not get forgotten.
The first task on day one is a deep technical audit that crawls your whole site, not just the homepage. It grades your on-page health and groups every issue by severity: critical, warning and notice. You see clear, plain-language problems like missing H1s, no content compression, duplicate titles, images without alt text and slow-loading pages, ranked by how many pages each one affects.
A count is not enough. Click any issue in the report and it expands to list the exact page URLs affected, so “38 pages without alt text” becomes an actionable list you can open and fix one by one.
We check your URL structure with our own logic rather than a black-box score, so clean URLs are never wrongly flagged. Growth OS only calls out URLs that genuinely have query parameters, invalid characters or excessive length, and confirms when everything is clean.
A brand-new page to run your directory outreach like a pro. Add directories from a curated list of high-authority options or your own, track each one from planned to submitted to live, and keep the domain rating, pricing, submission date and your listing URL in one place. Every entry has a private space for the login email, password and notes you need to manage the submission, and links straight into the full growth database to find more.
Filling directory forms is tedious. Write your product name, tagline and short, medium and long descriptions once, then copy any of them to your clipboard with a single click while you work through submissions. No more digging through old docs for the right blurb.
Some setup tasks verify themselves. Once Search Console is connected, Growth OS confirms the connection and checks whether your sitemap is registered, then completes those tasks for you so your progress reflects reality without extra clicks.
The rebuilt Growth OS is live. New sites see their day-by-day program the moment they open it, complete with today’s tasks, a deep audit and the Directory Tracker. Pick a project and start day one.
This is the big one. Growth OS turns ShubHQ from a collection of tools into a single self-running workflow. Connect a project once and Growth OS analyzes your site, hands you a prioritized monthly plan, tracks what you complete, proves the real growth, then replans the next month with AI. It gets smarter every cycle. Everything below is new in this release.
Growth OS opens on a dark, n8n-style canvas. Your project is the starting node, connected to six phase nodes: Project Analysis, Content, Authority, Rank and Demand, AI Visibility, and Social Growth. Run a phase and it lights up; completed phases turn green and unlock the next, with live connectors showing the flow. It is the first time your whole growth motion lives in one place you can actually see.
Most tools stop at a report. Growth OS runs a full loop. It reads your existing analysis, turns it into a prioritized monthly task list with real KPI targets, tracks completion, measures the actual deltas at month end, and feeds all of it into next month’s plan.
Each phase generates specific, prioritized tasks tied to targets pulled from your own data, for example “reach 70 points in Content” or “secure 7 quality links.” Every task links straight to the tool that gets it done. No generic advice, no staring at 50 metrics wondering what to do next.
At month end, Growth OS measures your plan completion and the real movement in authority, organic and visibility, then writes an honest performance summary and proposes next month’s plan. Unfinished critical work carries over, and the plan adapts to what actually moved. You review it and apply it with one click; nothing changes without your approval.
Tasks that can be measured from local data update themselves. Re-run your Scorecard and the matching tasks refresh and complete automatically once they hit target, so your progress stays accurate without busywork.
An AI copilot lives right in the canvas. It can see this project’s current tasks and your latest report, so it answers with real task titles and numbers. Ask what to focus on, how to finish a task, or what will move rankings fastest.
Growth OS reads the analysis you already have instead of re-running paid tools. Onboarding the workflow is free. If a phase needs data you have not generated yet, it points you to the right tool with a single click rather than charging you twice.
A gentle weekly nudge keeps momentum: if you have open tasks for the month, Growth OS emails you the top priorities with a link straight back into the workflow. Respects your notification preferences and never spams.
Growth OS is live in beta for all projects, with its own product page and full guide. Pick a project from the sidebar and run your first workflow.
A focused design pass on the Backlink Analyzer. The raw backlink numbers from v1.5 are now wrapped in a visual layer that reads at a glance; a Health Score gauge up top, distribution breakdowns across the Overview, and clear data-freshness signals on every tab.
A composite 0 to 100 Health Score now sits at the top of every Overview, rendered as a circular gauge ring with its band (Good / Fair / Poor) and a one-line recommendation. The score factors in referring-domain diversity, dofollow ratio, spam signals, and link velocity.
Click Why this score? to expand an explainer: a penalty breakdown (exactly what cost you points) on one side, and a prioritized “What to do next” action list on the other. No more guessing what a number means.
The Overview gained five visual breakdown panels rendered as horizontal bars:
Over-optimization and link-quality patterns that were buried in tables are now obvious at a glance.
Every tab now shows whether its data came fresh from the API (LIVE) or from cache (CACHE), so you always know how current the numbers are; and which views are costing credits versus served free from cache.
The Tracked Domains panel now renders inline sparkline trends for Domain Rating, Referring Domains, and Backlinks, each with its day-over-day delta, so movement is visible without opening the full History tab.
KPI cards gained sparklines and delta badges, tabular-aligned numerals, and consistent accent styling. The whole module now reads as a single cohesive dashboard rather than a stack of tables.
We’ve rebuilt Backlink Analytics from scratch on top of the DataForSEO Backlinks API. The old “My Backlinks” page is retired; the new Backlink Analyzer is a full Ahrefs/SEMrush-equivalent backlink intelligence module. Type any domain, get the full profile in under 30 seconds.
Overview New DR (Ahrefs-equivalent, calibrated via 0.63 factor), referring domains, total backlinks, referring IPs, spam score, and first-seen date. Six KPI cards on a single screen.
Backlinks New Full filterable list with DR, anchor text, dofollow/nofollow badge, broken flag, and first/last-seen dates. Server-side filter, sort, paginate, and CSV export.
Referring Domains New Every linking site grouped by domain, with top-countries and top-TLDs aggregations. Country filter and DR threshold slider.
Anchors New Automatic classification into six buckets (branded, exact, partial, naked URL, generic, empty) with a donut-chart distribution. Catches over-optimization at a glance.
History New Up to 3 years of monthly DR / RD / backlinks trend, plus a monthly new-vs-lost bar chart and a snapshot table. Ahrefs Lite ($129/mo) only gives 6 months.
Competitors New Sites that share the most referring domains with the analyzed target, plus a one-click Link Gap runner that surfaces every domain linking to a rival but not you.
Top Pages New Most-linked pages on the target, ranked by backlinks, referring domains, or page DR. Broken/live status per page.
“Track” any analyzed domain (plan limit: 1 / 3 / 6). A daily cron refreshes each tracked domain, diffs against yesterday’s snapshot, and sends in-app, email, and Telegram notifications when new backlinks or referring domains appear. You’re notified within a day of getting linked, not weeks later.
The new My Projects picker on the analyzer page pulls your brands and competitors from Settings > Profile > Competitor Tracking. Selecting a brand auto-fills the domain and pre-loads competitors into the Link Gap analysis; one click, full audit.
Domain Rating is now displayed on the Ahrefs scale (raw DataForSEO rank x 0.63) so numbers stay comparable across tools. No more “DR 62 here equals DR 39 there” confusion.
CSV download on every tab (UTF-8 BOM, Excel-ready). Printable PDF report that pre-fetches all data sections and opens a single-page summary ready for client delivery.
| Tab | Cost | Cache |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | 1 credit | 24 hours |
| Backlinks | 2 credits | 24 hours |
| Referring Domains | 2 credits | 24 hours |
| Anchors | 2 credits | 7 days |
| History | 4 credits | 7 days |
| Competitors | 3 credits | 7 days |
| Link Gap | 5 credits | 7 days |
| Top Pages | 2 credits | 24 hours |
A full one-shot domain audit with all tabs = ~20 credits. Cache hits are always free.
The old “My Backlinks” manual tracker has been moved to legacy. Sidebar entry renamed from “My Backlinks” to “Backlink Analyzer”.
Retired (September 2026): Backlink Growth Plan has been removed from ShubHQ and is no longer available. To track and grow your backlinks, use Backlink Analytics. The notes below are kept for the release history.
A new module that turns your tracked keywords into a curated list of link-building opportunities; listicles, comparisons and “best of” pages where your product belongs, each scored by AI and paired with a tailored outreach angle.
Listicle Opportunity Discovery New Amplifies your Rank Tracker keywords into listicle-shaped SERP queries (“best X 2026”, “top X tools”, “X alternatives”), pulls live Google results via API, and surfaces real link-worthy pages; deduplicated, self-domain filtered, and ranked by AI fit.
Hybrid AI Scoring New Two-stage pipeline: a fast pre-filter scores dozens of URLs in seconds, then Claude Sonnet writes a specific outreach angle for each high-fit opportunity; citing what the list is missing and why your product fits.
AI-Written Outreach Emails New Click Copy email on any opportunity and an LLM drafts a full, personalized pitch (subject + body) in ~1.5 seconds. Each email is article-specific and references your website; no templates, no boilerplate.
Smart Contact Finder New
Click Reach via on any card and we open a precisely-scoped Google site search; site:domain.com contact for email targets, "guest post" for editorial, claim for aggregator listings.
Pipeline Tabs New All, New, Saved, Contacted, Won. Live counts update with every status change and respect your active filters.
Permanent Blacklist New Hide an irrelevant opportunity once; it never reappears, even in future Generate Plan runs. URLs you’ve already secured a link from can also be dismissed cleanly.
Keyword Clustering New Similar keywords like “status page tool”, “public status page” and “status page free” are grouped automatically (Jaccard >= 0.6) so modifiers run once per cluster; cuts SERP cost by ~3x.
Monthly Modifier Rotation New Different modifier sets each month (best-of, alternatives, comparison, review). Repeat runs surface fresh opportunities instead of the same SERPs.
Past Plans History New Every run is archived. Open any past plan to revisit its exact opportunities. Tier-based limits (Free 1, Starter 5, Pro 20, Business unlimited).
Quota-based with credit overage:
The “Competitor Content Gap” section now pulls true keyword data via the DataForSEO Labs domain_intersection endpoint instead of scraping Google search results. Each gap row shows the actual monthly search volume, keyword difficulty (KD 0–100) and CPC, plus the competitor’s real ranking position. Up to 5 competitors and 25 deduplicated gaps per analysis.
Quick Wins (Pos 8–20) and High Potential (Pos 20–40) tables are now enriched with live DataForSEO metrics: Search Volume, Keyword Difficulty (color-coded badge), CPC, and a new Opportunity Score (0–100). Two API calls cover up to 1,000 keywords — no per-row overhead.
Every keyword now has a single 0–100 score combining traffic potential, volume, position, and difficulty. Tables are sorted by this score by default, so the most impactful keywords surface at the top.
A new section between High Potential and Competitor Gap lets you expand 1–5 seed keywords into long-tail variants via DataForSEO Labs keyword_suggestions. Built-in filters for Min Volume, Min Words and Max KD. The discovery automatically excludes keywords you already rank for in Google Search Console.
“Suggested Action” is no longer one of three canned strings. The backend now picks from six scenarios based on KD + Volume + Position + CTR (e.g. “High-volume opportunity — expand content”, “Skip for now — KD too high vs current authority”, “Add internal links + FAQ schema (low KD)”).
Cluster generation now feeds the LLM a richer keyword pool: your top GSC queries plus DataForSEO seed expansion of the top 3 performers. Each cluster card now exposes a Pillar article title and Target Keywords chips alongside the supporting ideas.
Topic clusters are cached per user for 7 days, keyed by your GSC snapshot + country, eliminating repeat AI cost on every page load. A new Refresh button bypasses the cache when you want to regenerate. A small status line shows whether the result is freshly generated or served from cache.
“Add to Growth Plan”, “Add to Content Calendar”, “Add Cluster to Calendar” and “Add All High-Impact” now persist to a new keyword_action_items table. Each entry stores the full keyword snapshot (volume, KD, CPC, opportunity, suggestion, source section). Duplicate adds are silently deduplicated. Inline toast notifications replace the previous browser alerts.
The three filters at the top of the page are now wired to the backend. Changing any of them re-fetches the data with the correct lookback, DataForSEO location code and device dimension.
The old “Difficulty (AI)” column — which was actually a CTR threshold — has been renamed to CTR Level, and a real KD column has been added alongside it driven by DataForSEO data.
Search intent inference now distinguishes Transactional (signup, demo, free trial, pricing) from Commercial and Informational, reducing the “Mixed” fallback that previously dominated the table.
The previous version of the Competitor Gap section generated volume and position values with rand() after scraping page titles via a site: query — surfacing data that looked real but wasn’t. The legacy code path has been deprecated and now returns an empty array; all competitor data is sourced from DataForSEO Labs.
Three new visualizations on the Rank Tracker page: Rising Keywords (biggest rank gains), Falling Keywords (biggest rank drops), and Keyword Volatility (standard deviation of rank movement). Each chart updates per project and supports 7-day, 30-day, 90-day, and 12-month windows. Live data from your historical rank checks — see at a glance which keywords are climbing, which need attention, and which are unstable.
Switch between your tracked domains with a single click. Each tab shows the domain, its live keyword count, and a “Primary” badge for your main project. Plan limit visible at all times (e.g. 2/10 projects used).
Compact horizontal strip showing all competitors tracked for the active project. Selecting a competitor lets you compare its keyword performance against yours. Limit per project varies by plan: Free (1), Starter (3), Pro (4), Business (5).
Your current plan (Free / Starter / Pro / Business) is now displayed in the page header with a color-coded chip — instant visibility into your limits without leaving the tool.
The “How API GP Work” section is no longer a giant card. Click the (i) How GP works button in the header for a clean popover showing exact GP cost per rank tier (1–10 = 10 GP, 41–50 = 50 GP, etc.). Less clutter, same information.
The Rank Tracker page has been rebuilt from the ground up using a new design system: neutral background palette, refined typography (Inter, 13–14px base), 6–8px corner radii, and accent-only turquoise. Buttons are solid (no more gradients), shadows are subtle, and every element follows a consistent 4/8/12/16/24/32 spacing scale. Result: cleaner, more professional, and easier on the eyes.
The “Add Keyword” composer is now constrained to a sensible width with a search icon inside the input. Country selector got 4 new options (Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, China) — all backed by local flag assets instead of a CDN dependency.
Each row now shows a numbered chip (#1, #2, …) for easier counting and reference. Sort the table by any column and numbers re-flow automatically. Flag icons have been replaced with sharper local PNGs.
Project tabs now show live keyword counts pulled directly from your active keywords — no more stale numbers from cached fields.
Fixed orphaned keywords that were not linked to any domain (domain_id IS NULL), causing dashboard counts to be lower than actual keyword usage.
Country select previously showed flags via an external CDN that occasionally failed to load — all flags are now bundled locally for instant rendering.
Project tabs and “Your Domain” card no longer duplicate the same domain in two places.
AI-powered subreddit recommendations tailored to your niche, content type, and brand. Get 6-8 curated subreddits with member counts, activity scores, moderation strictness, self-promotion tolerance, and best posting hours - all in one click.
Analyze any subreddit’s last 90 days of activity to find the optimal posting windows for your timezone. Visual weekly heatmap shows engagement intensity across all 168 hours of the week.
Your Subreddit Matchmaker and Best Time to Post searches are now saved automatically. Click the new Past Searches button next to either tool to re-run any of your last 20 queries in a single click. Searches persist across devices and browsers.
We’ve restructured the sidebar to surface our most powerful tools and make ShubHQ easier to navigate on day one:
Fixed cell stretching and column collapse on narrower viewports; the grid now scrolls horizontally on small screens.
When AI generation is temporarily unavailable, curated baseline recommendations are now shown instead of an error.
ShubHQ 1.0 is officially live. We could not be happier to share it with you.
From the day this project started, 28 April 2025, to today, exactly 52 weeks and 2,130 hours of focused work have gone into making it real. One year, one solo developer, and a single idea worth building: that organic visibility should not depend on the size of your ad budget.
I started ShubHQ as a solo developer, and I want to begin by thanking the two people who carried me through the hard parts. To my wife and my daughter, for the patience, the understanding, and the hours you gave up so I could keep building. Every late night and every weekend belonged to you, and you let me have them anyway. Thank you.
It all started on April 28, 2025, as a quiet side project on my laptop. A few months later, on July 12, 2025, I sent the very first tweet about the project — back when it was still called ScaleUpSaasHub.com. The idea was already crystal clear: help founders grow organically without burning money on ads.
In late 2025 the original ScaleUpSaasHub experiment was spun off as a free, open-source project that collects and shares marketing data for SaaS tools, while the platform side of the work kept growing into what you see today. Then on April 6, 2026, I shared the first peek at the ShubHQ login panel — and exactly three weeks later, on April 27, 2026, ShubHQ 1.0 went live. One year, one solo developer, two restless arrows, and a single idea worth building.
I have spent years working alongside SaaS founders and e-commerce operators, helping them grow organically, without the infinite ad budget that the playbook usually assumes. That work taught me one thing very clearly: for a growth specialist managing digital projects, visibility is everything. And visibility that you earn through real engagement is worth far more than visibility you rent through paid links that add nothing of substance.
We are entering a new era. The first quarter of 2025 made that obvious, vibe coding hit a tipping point, building software became dramatically easier, and the number of new SaaS projects, micro-SaaS, and indie e-commerce stores is going to keep accelerating. But the other side of that coin is harder: user acquisition and sustainable revenue are getting more competitive, not less. Solo builders are entering the market every day. Micro-SaaS founders are trying to launch with very little capital. Independent e-commerce operators are fighting to sell genuinely great products in an increasingly crowded space.
Visibility has never been more expensive or more difficult.
ShubHQ is my answer to that. The core question I kept asking was simple: how do you become more visible without spending money you don’t have? Everything in the platform is built around that question.
ShubHQ is a single dashboard that brings together everything an indie founder, growth specialist, SEO professional, AEO/GEO operator, or backlink analyst needs to grow organically, at a price that does not punish you for being early.
Across the past year I built and tested 22 growth modules, including:
Every module was built by testing it against real SaaS and e-commerce projects I work with, not in a lab. The advantage of being a solo developer who is also a real growth practitioner is that I could be the first user, every day, for a year.
22 modules in 52 weeks is a beginning, not a finish line. The modules are not perfect, none of them ever are on day one, but we have a test team and our earliest users already shaping what comes next. Your feedback is going to do more for this product than any internal roadmap I could write alone.
What I can promise is the energy and the discipline to keep improving. I hope to be updating this changelog with excitement for many years, and to keep serving the founders and operators who choose to grow with us.
If you are reading this, thank you for being here on day one.