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by mvkel2 days ago |
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upvoteby lekevicius2 days ago|
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tbf they turned previous ChatGPT macOS app into Codex, so getting a "new" Codex user might mean someone using ChatGPT just updated their app.
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upvoteby an0malous1 days ago|
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I don’t even know what Codex is anymore and at this point I’m too afraid to ask. I remember the days when it was a VSCode extension.

Didn’t they also name their new hardware product Codex?

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upvoteby brookst1 days ago|
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Yes, they’re following the Microsoft strategy of “if you name everything Copilot, you can report high Copilot usage”
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upvoteby woadwarrior011 days ago|
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To me, it's the cli.
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upvoteby ozgung1 days ago|
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Numbers are for Codex AND ChatGPT Work users. So if a ChatGPT subscriber tries Work tab they must be counted as a new active user. So it’s not like 1M new developers daily.
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upvoteby ayuhito1 days ago|
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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!

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upvoteby Verdex1 days ago|
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Which seems a bit off to me. Can they even ipo right now due to the apple business?

Although I don't think you're wrong. The number of "organic" social media posts I've seen in the past few weeks of the form: 'Wow, Anthropic users are ugly losers...nothing like those handsome openai tiger blood winner sages' is simply too high in my mind for anything other than an ipo prelude.

[Also are altman and musk really fighting on x? Like, that's got to be a sign of some sort of internal stressors right?]

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upvoteby sebjones2 days ago|
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I was thinking about this. How do they measure this? Every upgrade of the ChatGPT apps get counted?
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upvoteby rvz2 days ago|
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They just merged the ChatGPT app and the Codex app into one super app.

It is a clever growth hack.

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upvoteby ipsum22 days ago|
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I would expect them to grow faster than 1 million users a day in that case, since chatGPT has almost a billion users. Maybe everyone's just using the web app or mobile?
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upvoteby 8n4vidtmkvmk1 days ago|
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I was using the web app. Don't see any reason to use anything else for basic chat. Not having access to my computer is a feature
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upvoteby mvkel1 days ago|
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As someone who just used computer use to successfully perform a "change of address" across 52 different services, hard disagree. It's magic.
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upvoteby fatata1231 days ago|
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upvoteby monster_truck1 days ago|
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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.

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upvoteby solumunus1 days ago|
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Such a counting method doesn’t explain that incredible growth. Do you think day by day huge portions of users are using additional devices in perpetuity?
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upvoteby monster_truck1 days ago|
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I know it for a fact. Have you never worked at a startup before or even seen "growth hacking" at work?

Turning <100k claude refugees into seven figures by counting their web sessions, their codex sessions, and the mobile app as separate "users" is pratically the only way you can get such numbers.

Then you do it again by offering ex-users like me who have already given them a grand or two a free month of plus or pro (this is the third time they have done so for me)

When you hear founders and investors talk about "the magic of storytelling" "the power of momentum", this is what that is.

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