DEV Community: MarinosVeis

A small hreflang bug that created hundreds of SEO errors

MarinosVeis — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:34:08 +0000

I recently ran into a painful SEO issue on a localized SaaS site.

Ahrefs showed hundreds of “missing reciprocal hreflang” errors.

The actual bug was small:

some localized privacy pages had valid URLs, but the hreflang matcher did not include the plain privacy slug as a safe alternate path.

So pages like:

/privacy/
/it/privacy/
/ar/privacy/
/hi/privacy/

existed, but they were not always returning the full alternate set.

That meant other localized pages pointed to them, but they did not point back.

Search crawlers see that as an incomplete hreflang cluster.

The lesson:

If you generate hreflang dynamically, do not only check whether a route “should” exist. Verify that every target actually renders and returns a reciprocal link.

I ended up writing a local check that crawls the built dist folder and verifies:

every alternate target exists
every alternate target links back
no internal links point to missing pages
no double-slash internal URLs exist

Not glamorous, but very useful.

Why I think AI tools should live closer to the browser workflow

MarinosVeis — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:00:31 +0000

Most AI tools still require a context switch.

You are reading something, writing something, or replying to someone, then you have to:

open another tab
paste the context
write a prompt
generate text
copy it back
edit it

That workflow works, but it creates friction.

I have been building ForSocials as a Chrome extension because I think some AI workflows make more sense directly inside the browser.

The goal is not to replace writing. The goal is to reduce the repeated context switching around writing.

The most useful places so far have been:

reply drafts
rewriting text
AI chat on the current page
reusable templates
transcription and thread writing

The product lesson for me has been simple: AI feels more useful when it appears where the task already happens.

If you are building AI tools, are you keeping users in their current workflow or sending them somewhere else?

For context, this is what I am building:
https://forsocials.com/ai-chrome-extension

Do creators actually want help with replies, or is this more of a founder/marketer pain point?

MarinosVeis — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:28:14 +0000

I’m trying to narrow the audience for a browser-based reply workflow I’ve been building.

On paper, creators seem like a strong fit because they spend a lot of time engaging.

But I’m not sure whether the real pain is bigger for:

creators
founders
marketers
or agencies

If anyone here falls into one of those groups, I’d genuinely love to hear who this sounds most useful for.

The page is here for context:
https://forsocials.com/ai-reply-generator