ChatGPT recommended this plugin for six days: 47x signups, then a platform change killed it
sanderssays · x · 2026-10-02
Audioscrape founder Lukas Campos documents the 'Router Economy' with first-party data: from Sep 4, ChatGPT's in-conversation plugin recommendations sent his audio search startup 36x daily signups (47x at peak) for six days. At 22:00 UTC on Sep 9, a platform-wide plugin-search change dropped plugins published after early August — including his — and recommendations stopped within the hour, a change unrelated to his product. Signups settled at 3.5x baseline and keep growing, but the episode shows AI assistants becoming routers between people and businesses, deciding who gets the work and where money flows.
Related event: Six Days of ChatGPT Referrals Sparked Dozens-Fold Signup Surge(2 posts)→
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