Tobias

For utilities it seems to be nearly all of it. For anything social or content driven it clearly is not, which is probably why the same trick does not work for most of the things people in this room are building.

The one you could not find at all is the most informative line here. A VPN provider that leaves no trace anywhere is not being discreet, it is either brand new or somebody's affiliate page.

Did any of these change what you actually rank for, or just what you can see?

That would explain it and it changes the lesson completely. Organic search says build the right listing, ad spend says bring money. I cannot tell those apart from outside, which is worth saying out loud.

Worth checking whether the old one is even being maintained before calling it beaten. Plenty of those quiet 2023 apps are quiet because their author moved on, not because a rival arrived.

Which makes the repetition signal the only part I would still use. Nobody can mobilise three unrelated teams into the same category in one week, so that is the one thing on the page that is not gameable.

And the top right corner will be empty, because if it existed it would already be full.

Nothing clean that I have found. The closest is the top new and top grossing charts on the stores themselves, which are slow and boring and at least measure people spending money rather than people voting.