He Gets 50 Downloads a Day From ChatGPT and Pays $0 for Ads
Two weeks after launch, a solo iOS dev is clearing 100+ downloads per day with zero ad spend — and more than half of it arrives from inside a chatbot. Not App Store search. Not TikTok. People asking ChatGPT "what's the best alternative to X?" and getting his app named first. He noticed the referrer in App Store Connect before he understood why. Then he reverse-engineered it in a few days.
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