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# App marketplace presence truth: Promptly and Drishti

Date checked: 2026-08-09
First checked: 2026-08-09 (baseline below). Re-verified: 2026-08-11 (see re-verification log).

## Claim

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## Re-verification

To re-verify, repeat the on-platform searches and the two site-restricted queries above. The claim is falsified iff a Product Hunt or AlternativeTo page owned by or attributable to Tiny Studio's Promptly or Drishti (linking to tinystudio.in or named as Tiny Studio's app) appears in any of them.
To re-verify, repeat the on-platform searches and the two site-restricted queries above. The claim is falsified iff a Product Hunt or AlternativeTo page owned by or attributable to Tiny Studio's Promptly or Drishti (linking to tinystudio.in or named as Tiny Studio's app) appears in any of them. Each re-check is recorded in the re-verification log below with its date and verdict.

## Re-verification log

### 2026-08-11 — re-checked, claim still holds

**Verdict: True as checked on 2026-08-11.** No Tiny Studio listing, page, or indexed mention of Promptly or Drishti on Product Hunt or AlternativeTo. The 2026-08-09 baseline was re-run live; every name-matching result still belongs to an unrelated third party.

Re-checked live on 2026-08-11:

- Product Hunt on-platform search (`https://www.producthunt.com/search`) for `promptly` — same 5+ unrelated products as 2026-08-09 (no-code GenAI app builder, ChatGPT plugin, AI-prompt saver, no-code web page editor, support email autopilot); none links to tinystudio.in.
- Product Hunt search for `drishti` — "No products found for 'drishti'." Zero results.
- Product Hunt search for `tiny studio` — fuzzy matches only (Supernotes, PicSo, Kapwing, HockeyStack, etc.).
- Product Hunt exact-name page `producthunt.com/products/tinystudio` — still the unrelated Mac subtitle app (maker handle `tinyfool`, launched 2023, App Store id 6448954288); its site is the App Store listing, not tinystudio.in.
- AlternativeTo on-platform search (`https://alternativeto.net/browse/search/`) for `promptly` — 17 results, all unrelated (generative-AI chatbot builder, open-source blog tool, VK, meeting reminders, PDF converters, prompt libraries, etc.); none is Tiny Studio's booking/no-show app and none links to tinystudio.in.
- AlternativeTo search for `drishti` — the open-source scientific visualisation software "Drishti" plus fuzzy matches (Now&Me, etc.); none is Tiny Studio's mindful screen-time app.
- AlternativeTo search for `tinystudio` — one fuzzy match (JPEG Lossless Rotator); no Tiny Studio listing.
- AlternativeTo software page `https://alternativeto.net/software/tinystudio/about/` — HTTP 404, no listing exists. The Wayback CDX index holds zero archived `alternativeto.net/software/tinystudio*` URLs.
- Index checks (DuckDuckGo site-restricted): `site:producthunt.com "tinystudio.in"` — no results; `site:alternativeto.net "tinystudio.in"` — no results; `site:alternativeto.net tinystudio OR "tiny studio" promptly OR drishti` — no results; `site:alternativeto.net "promptly" booking` — no results. Brave returns only fuzzy word matches for the cleaned query "tinystudio.in" on both domains (Tiiny Host, TinyMCE, TinyLaunch, Tiny11, TinyPod, Tight Studio, etc.); none references tinystudio.in or Tiny Studio's apps.
- Live app pages: `https://tinystudio.in/promptly/` and `https://tinystudio.in/drishti/` — both HTTP 200; neither contains "Product Hunt" or "AlternativeTo" (zero matches in page HTML); neither carries a `noindex`/`nofollow` robots meta; `robots.txt` allows crawling of all paths and lists the sitemap.

Method note for re-runs: as of 2026-08-11, direct AlternativeTo fetches and several general indexes (DuckDuckGo, Bing, Brave, Startpage, Ecosia, Mojeek) bot-gate direct requests from datacenter egress. The on-platform AlternativeTo searches and the DuckDuckGo site-restricted queries above were re-run through the r.jina.ai reader proxy (live page fetch of the same URLs). The verdict does not depend on any single index: the on-platform searches, the 404 software page, the empty Wayback CDX history, and all four DuckDuckGo site-restricted queries agree.