Changelog

What has Paperboy shipped?

One line per change, newest first. Built from the merge history of the production branch. Nothing is listed until it is live.

Since launch

57

changes shipped between October 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026.

Open-source repo coming soon

October 202657 changes

  1. Improved

    The showcase now lists every site that publishes with Paperboy by default, not only sites that turned the badge on. Owners can opt out any time in site settings. The badge stays optional and still earns one extra article a month.

  2. New

    Added 11 more comparison pages (Rankscale, Promptwatch, LLMrefs, WriterZen and others) and 5 more AI agent setup pages (Roo Code, Warp, Raycast, LibreChat and Open WebUI).

  3. Improved

    Mobile menu now shows Start, Sign in and Pricing first, opens as a full sheet and closes when you tap a link or press Escape.

  4. New

    New settings, billing and API keys pages, and a /start onboarding flow that takes you from your address to your first article.

  5. New

    Added API keys and a REST API (v1, with an OpenAPI file), plus a remote MCP server that your AI agent can use with the same key and credits.

  6. New

    New look for pricing, about, changelog, contact, security, agencies, help and the legal pages, with a full plan comparison and credits explained.

  7. New

    Added in-app analytics: Search Console charts for each site, a view across all your sites and a weekly email with a chart.

  8. Improved

    Mobile polish for the new home page: badge spacing, a sticky call to action and a compact dashboard preview.

  9. New

    Added a page for each AI agent client (25 so far), 41 side-by-side comparison pages and an integrations wall.

  10. New

    New light-first home page with a switch between SEO done for you and an agent view, plus a new header and footer.

  11. Improved

    The article engine can now pick topics for sites without Search Console, makes a second fix round and cites more carefully.

  12. Improved

    The MCP server (at /mcp), the REST API (at /api/v1) and credits are live, and the engine is open source under AGPL-3.0 for self-hosting from GitHub. The CLI is in the repository and is not on npm yet.

  13. New

    Added a content calendar with drag and drop scheduling, an editor for your own posts and a media library.

  14. Improved

    Multi-site dashboard, and one step to connect Search Console for all your sites.

  15. New

    New logo everywhere and a redesigned blog.

  16. New

    Added a badge you can put on your site, a showcase page and a link assistant.

  17. Improved

    First article flow: paste your address, read the result, then start a 14-day trial on any plan.

  18. New

    New design system and home page: ink and newsprint colors, fact-check pills and brand marks.

  19. New

    Added pages for each publishing platform and AI agent, and an autoblogging guide.

  20. New

    Added the AI crawlers list: 34 AI user agents with exact robots.txt lines, one page per crawler, and the data as open JSON and CSV (CC BY 4.0).

  21. New

    Added the Results board: sites that run the Paperboy engine, with Google Search Console clicks and impressions for 90 days, the start date and the article count. Sites we own are labeled, and a site's numbers hide when its data is more than 4 days old. Customers can opt in from site settings.

  22. New

    Added two free tools: a blog post cost calculator and a Search Console page two finder that reads your export in the browser.

  23. New

    Added two free tools: a robots.txt generator for AI crawlers and an llms.txt generator.

  24. Improved

    Technical SEO: one-hop redirects to paperboyseo.com, a split sitemap, more structured data, a share image for every blog post, and a full-text llms-full.txt.

  25. New

    Added pages for pricing (with a machine-readable pricing.json), about, changelog, contact and security.

  26. Improved

    Reconnecting Search Console on Paperboy's own site now refreshes the home page numbers right away instead of at the next daily run.

  27. Improved

    A blog with no successful Search Console fetch now hides the impressions, clicks and chart instead of showing Waiting for Google.

  28. Improved

    Topics now skip searches where most of the top ten results are large, strong sites, and the next topic is tried in the same run.

  29. Improved

    Search Console numbers on the home page now come from daily totals, show when they were fetched, and hide themselves when they are more than 3 days old.

  30. Fix

    Removed the sample article and the illustration from the home page, and made the contact address a working link.

  31. New

    Published a dated robots.txt snapshot of 55 well-known sites, with a CSV, showing who blocks AI crawlers.

  32. Improved

    Second design pass on the agencies, help, legal, free checker and sign-in pages.

  33. New

    New look for the marketing site: header, footer, home page, blog index and article pages.

  34. New

    Added guides on AI blog writer alternatives, fact-checking AI writers and AI search statistics, plus an FAQ on the blog and the free checker.

  35. New

    Added eight comparison and buyer guides, including Surfer, SEO.AI, Frase and BoltSEO alternatives.

  36. Improved

    Updated Next.js to 16.4.3 for a security advisory.

  37. New

    Added Koala alternatives and an AI blog writer buyer's guide for small businesses, and refreshed the robots.txt and ChatGPT guide.

  38. New

    Added a Jasper alternatives comparison.

  39. New

    Added RankYak alternatives and a guide to automatic blog posts for WordPress.

  40. New

    Added a RightBlogger alternatives comparison.

  41. New

    Added Arvow alternatives and SEObot alternatives comparisons.

  42. Improved

    Old netlify.app addresses now redirect to paperboyseo.com, and the site gained an llms.txt file and FAQ markup.

  43. Fix

    Fixed the scheduler so one stuck article can no longer stop a site's weekly publishing.

  44. Improved

    Each customer site now gets a daily Search Console review: pages to fix, topics to add, and a 28 day score for every change.

  45. Improved

    Blog newsletter signups now go to our own mailing tool.

  46. New

    Added the agencies page and the Agency plan card, with every site after the first at 20 percent off.

  47. New

    New home page hero, a monthly and yearly price switch, and live blog numbers.

  48. Improved

    The article writer now takes competitor prices and features only from the competitor's own website, with the date it was read.

  49. New

    Added structured data, canonical addresses and an RSS feed link site-wide.

  50. Improved

    Launch readiness: Paperboy's own blog now runs on the article engine, with its own Stripe billing portal and a newsletter signup.

  51. New

    Launched the free AI visibility checker: see if Google, Bing, ChatGPT search, Perplexity and Claude can read your site.

  52. New

    Added a topic queue where you can add your own topics and block ones you never want, plus lifecycle emails and an optional cancel survey.

  53. New

    Added a Search Console style traffic chart to the dashboard, and live progress while an article is being written.

  54. Improved

    Fact check: a citation the source seems not to support now gets a second look with more of the source before it blocks publishing.

  55. Improved

    Fact check: an article passes with a score of 70 or more and no blocking issue.

  56. New

    Added the free article limit: one per person and per website.

  57. Improved

    First release: sign-up, site scan, article engine, fact check, publishing, billing, dashboard and hosted blogs.

See what we ship next, on your own site

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