Gillish Mesh
Competitor link-graph analysis, the WordPress-native way.
Gillish Mesh is a single-purpose WordPress plugin that crawls a competing blog, extracts its internal-link graph, computes structural metrics, and renders a side-by-side comparison against your own site, for niche bloggers who can’t justify the $129–200 / month cost of Ahrefs / Semrush / Screaming Frog. It is the standalone sibling of Gillish Node. These are the working documents, the design, the brief, and the plan, captured while the project is parked so re-entry costs almost nothing. Not a marketing page; nothing here ships to end users.
Documentation
What Mesh will do once built: the background crawler with realistic-UA Cloudflare handling, the internal-link graph and Link Gravity scoring, the Their site / Your site / Compare tabs, the Better Together bridge to Gillish Node, and the GDPR posture. Written as a planned-capability map, explicitly framed as not-yet-built, no feature is documented as shipped.
See the planned capability Strategic mapProduct brief
The full strategic picture: the niche-blogger problem, the
three personas (Sara / Jan / Linda), the
cheap × narrow-scope positioning, the
freemium-as-working-hypothesis pricing (OPEN), the Better
Together moat with Gillish Node, the deliberate non-goals, and
the success metrics. Mirrored from the in-repo
plans/PRODUCT-BRIEF.md.
Foundation plan
Where Mesh stands (Phase 0 skeleton, parked), why it is a
standalone plugin rather than a Node module, the six-phase
rollout from Foundation to Polish, and an index of the in-repo
plans/ corpus. Mirrored, not moved,
gillish-mesh/plans/ stays the source of truth.
Security & compliance
A source-cited tracking surface for GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, the EU
Cyber Resilience Act, EAA/WCAG 2.2 AA and
OWASP Top 10. Honest by rule: a parked skeleton is
mostly not assessed, no fabricated
"compliant" claims. Mirrors the in-repo
plans/security.md; canonical programme is
Core-owned.