alt Hacker News> 5 days ago: 7M users
> 4 days ago: 8M users
> 3 days ago: 9M users
That's some incredible growth.
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I was thinking about this. How do they measure this? Every upgrade of the ChatGPT apps get counted?
I have an inkling of a feeling that this generosity is a stunt only to help juice the growth and “story” specifically for the IPO…
Best use the AI subsidies while you can!
They, like every startup ever, count users in a very stupid way.
One person using the app on two computers and a phone? That's obviously 3 users.
Growth Hackers and SEO types have done so much to make the world an insufferable place. I congradulate them on the OpenClaw psyop, that was some very inspired bullshit that did fuck all and is now irrelevant.
They just merged the ChatGPT app and the Codex app into one super app.
It is a clever growth hack.
tbf they turned previous ChatGPT macOS app into Codex, so getting a "new" Codex user might mean someone using ChatGPT just updated their app.