#480 Get OpenChronology listed where AI answers look: AlternativeTo, SourceForge, Product Hunt, roundups

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Originally created by: athanclark

Nothing outside our own pages mentions OpenChronology yet, so AI assistants have no other sources to cite or recommend it from:

• A web search for "OpenChronology timeline editor" finds OpenChronicle, TimelineJS, TimeFlow and others, but nothing of ours.
• A search for "best open source timeline maker for historians research exact dates" finds AlternativeTo's pages (Timeline Software, Chronos Timeline and Time.Graphics alternatives) and a "Top 10 Best History Timeline Software of 2026" roundup (gitnux.org). We're on none of them.
• Those searches also found no source comparing timeline tools on dates before year 1 or date precision, which is what OpenChronology does best.

Plan, all by hand and honest, with no paid or fake reviews:

1. AlternativeTo: list OpenChronology, and add it as an alternative to TimelineJS, Chronos Timeline, Time.Graphics, Aeon Timeline and Timeline (the open-source one). Use its real description, free and GPL-3.0, its platforms, and the strengths that differ: exact BCE dates, sources per event, self-hosting.
2. SourceForge: a project page mirroring the GitHub releases, which search results cite.
3. Product Hunt: a launch, planned with the release notes and the videos.
4. Roundups: contact the authors of the "best timeline software" and "history timeline software" articles that searches return, with a short factual note and a link to an example timeline.
5. Communities where historians, teachers and worldbuilders ask for tools (r/AskHistorians' resource threads, r/worldbuilding, digital-humanities lists). Answer existing questions where it fits, without posting the link everywhere.
6. Software directories for the self-hosted server: awesome-selfhosted and similar.

Measure the effect with the monthly queries (separate issue).

Found in an AI-search audit of timescale.info on 2026-11-06.

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