[LarsenCC]

I tried a lot of things, I even work with AI professionally.

This is just a side project I had since 5 years ago. And it just reminded me how simple things can be sometimes. No need to put AI everywhere.

In any case, the reviews are not fake, I talked to these people personally in search for feedback. I am not going to share their personal info ofc.

But will consider improving the site to not make it feel fake!

[ch_fr]

Last line before you edited your reply was:

> P.s.: Noticed how when people buy the template the number on the landing page increases? Its real.

I did notice, so am I to believe that in the writing of my comment (less than an hour ago), this number jumped from 2300 to a clean 2360 (so a conversion rate of about 2 users per minute), and yet it has not received further updates since? I'm pretty sure that I've been writing for more than a few minutes already.

Also I don't think I've ever seen "inputting false profile images from randomuser.me" as a means to protect the personal infos of your client, if they don't want their name in there, I'm pretty sure they also don't want a fake name and fake image to represent them.

Finally, it's hard to believe that a thriving community of 2360 individual users would translate to a subreddit with... 5 monthly visits. https://www.reddit.com/r/WriteItDownTemplate/ (<- official subreddit listed on your site's page)

[LarsenCC]

You are right, I did edit the comment since after I read it again I found it too defensive, so I rephrased it a little. Hope you don't mind!

The reddit page you posted was made quite some time after the initial post that went "viral" (https://www.reddit.com/r/sheets/comments/178kf81/tracking_fi...). I also haven't put much effort in growing it, sadly.

I understand you might think these people are fake but I am not here to try to prove you wrong. I know what I've built, I know how many people have signed up and requested a copy. What I will do however is fix the landing page so that less people think this is some sort of trick to get people to buy.

In any case, I really do appreciate the feedback!

[giarc]

>P.s.: Noticed how when people buy the template the number on the landing page increases? Its real.

Huh? You mean that hardcoded text?

<span class="font-bold text-customOrange">2360</span>

[LarsenCC]

If you inspect a page you will likely not see that there is some JS logic in the background that polls from a DB.

But will try to make it more convincing!

[zsoltkacsandi]

He/she raised valid points respectfully, no need for this snarky tone.