I asked ChatGPT about my app. It mostly didn’t mention me.
I make Hearing Buddy, an iPhone app that puts live captions on the conversations around you. I assumed that when someone asked ChatGPT for a caption app, Hearing Buddy would come up.
I built Fogline to check. I gave it my website. It found my competitors, wrote down the questions real people type when they’re looking for an app like mine, and asked ChatGPT every one of them.
Out of 20 questions, ChatGPT named Hearing Buddy twice.
Not for the dad who keeps missing dinner conversation. Not for the doctor’s appointment, the book club, the family reunion or the grandkids. Those are exactly the people I built it for, and ChatGPT was sending them to other apps.
That’s the problem with AI answers. There’s no page two, no ranking report and no lost click you can see. You’re in the answer or you’re not, and nobody tells you which.
Vague questions like “how does this technology compare to other options?” Nobody types that. ChatGPT gave generic advice and named no one.
Rewritten the way people actually ask: “my dad keeps missing what people say at dinner.” Now real apps get named, and Hearing Buddy is one of them, sometimes.
Twice as many questions, the next day. One competitor was named in 8 answers. Hearing Buddy was named in 2. That left 18 questions where customers never heard about it.