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How Yuka got its users

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Usage happens in supermarket aisles, in front of other shoppers. The act of scanning is itself in-store advertising.

Confirmed. The team said it publicly, or the signals leave no room for doubt.

Can you run this?
COPYABLE

You could start this on Monday. No budget, no audience, no permission needed.

Your time
12 months
Your money
Almost nothing
First signal
3 to 6 months
Upside
  • Free physical distribution
  • Recurring press coverage
Price of entry
  • Usage that happens in public
  • Independence you can defend

Viral product in 2026

The best channel when it exists. But it is decided in product design, not in marketing.

Everything on this channel →

The play

4 steps, in the order they ran them.

  1. 1

    Design a gesture of use that is visible in public

  2. 2

    Give a blunt, color-coded verdict. Nuance does not travel

  3. 3

    Let the press run with the conflict against the industry

  4. 4

    Never take money from the brands you rate. That is the whole credibility base

The product itself

read from yuka.io, live

Faites les bons choix pour votre santé

973 public pagesFirebase

Run this against your own product

In your chat

Carries the play above, and is written to tell you no when this channel is out of reach for you.

In your editor

The same twelve channels as an agent skill. It reads your repository and eliminates what you cannot run. Open source, MIT.

curl -o ~/.claude/skills/howtodistribute/SKILL.md https://howtodistribute.com/skill.md

Tens of millions of users, mostly in France

The evidence1 checkable
  • In-aisle usage, sustained French press coverage

They ran the same play

Want this verdict on your product?

Describe it. You get back the channel I would run in your place, the 30-day plan, and the number at which you stop.