Indie hacker confesses: repeatedly prompting ChatGPT daily to check if his tool makes the answer
tibo_maker · x · 2026-09-30
Indie developer tibomaker admits to asking ChatGPT "what's the best AI SEO tool" every day—with variations like "be honest" and "asking for a friend named Tibo"—just to see if his product appears in the answer. He points to dravenip's article explaining smarter ways to get into AI answers without refreshing 40 times a day.
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