Meta’s Threads got their first million users in 0 days and 1 hour (reportedly).
Many celebrate this speed of user acquisition, but frankly, if you have a social media app with 500M users, and create a companion app that got 100M users from the former, it doesn’t sound as compelling.
Meanwhile, ChatGPT, the second fastest-to-million app in history, got to the first 1M in 5 days. Which is remarkable for many reasons:
- completely new technology;
- no previous user base;
- doesn’t have a cheap user acquisition channel;
- no access to users contact list or phone book (got you, Meta);
- completely new meta-language for interaction (prompting);
- fairly innovative interface for AI conversations (chats + plugins + prompts);
- doesn’t collect user data to sell to third parties or allow retargeting (note: it still collects it to train models on new datasets).
Cheers to OpenAI for making such a technology free/relatively cheap with no ads.
Many celebrate this speed of user acquisition, but frankly, if you have a social media app with 500M users, and create a companion app that got 100M users from the former, it doesn’t sound as compelling.
Meanwhile, ChatGPT, the second fastest-to-million app in history, got to the first 1M in 5 days. Which is remarkable for many reasons:
- completely new technology;
- no previous user base;
- doesn’t have a cheap user acquisition channel;
- no access to users contact list or phone book (got you, Meta);
- completely new meta-language for interaction (prompting);
- fairly innovative interface for AI conversations (chats + plugins + prompts);
- doesn’t collect user data to sell to third parties or allow retargeting (note: it still collects it to train models on new datasets).
Cheers to OpenAI for making such a technology free/relatively cheap with no ads.