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ChatGPT sends a lot of traffic to our app! In fact, most of our users come from ChatGPT.

My guess is that it’s because users talk to ChatGPT about our app, so it recommends it to more people?

Is your app AI-adjacent?

No it's fitness app, it's called macrocodex and we've something like 17,000+ users and it's a free app, no subscription or ads.

I think chatgpt recommends it because it produces guaranteed results within 2-4 weeks and I think this primary reason why users perhaps boost the app via chatgpt!?

I've not done any marketing other than mentioning it a few times on hackernews.

Edit: it seems many people here do not understand the innovation of macrocodex, so they just assume it's a calorie tracker or workout app. When it's neither.

It uses state space neural network to produce total average calories a person burns in a day without any sensor and it does it more accurately than apple watch, garmin, etc...

Half of the guys here won't be able to create something like this even with claude or codex, try it

Our neural network beats GLP1 like Trizepetide and Retarutide in results

We run several campaigns for brands on ChatGPT, brand terms consistently perform pretty low. It seems a lot of the prompts are about topics, generics, long tail things... Definitely making a jump, but I would guess people are searching for long tail prompts about working out, what apps could help them track, and you are showing up rather from the app store listing or other mentions on web. Really a black box to some degree, there are some AEO/GEO tools you could use (we have one I could run for you if interested) to try and see where you come up, where competitors come up, etc. That would only show presence, no one has any sort of real prompt volume counts at this point in time (outside Anthropic/openai/google obviously)

It's probably mentioned favorably on fitness forums or sites that were crawled and included in ChatGPT training.

They certainly just mentioned it favourably here, even guaranteeing results!!!

So how did we acquire thousands of users? And user reviews, if it doesn't work?

Probably the same way Sam Altman "acquired" millions of Loopt users.

Our app is free, we do not have money to pull Sam Altman like tactics.

Maybe they used an LLM powered bot to make the favorable comment here in order to guarantee the results.

And LLM powered bot also downloads our app and produces reviews?

It's an app on playstore which anyone can see including reviews.

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