The difference is the App Store was purely a platform, whereas ChatGPT apps are more like future product features.
The more pertinent analogy is Amazon Marketplace and Amazon Basics: Where Amazon lets vendors experiment with ideas at their own risk, and then spots opportunities to add to their assortment of Basics products and undercut existing suppliers.
OpenAI did this recently with its “chat with PDF” feature, for example.
For me the OpenAI marketplace is nice for making a quick buck, or building a cool portfolio project - which is not a bad outcome, just not quite the chance to build a business...
@nick I think you're partially right. The big difference for me is the fact that you will still be able to build using external APIs. The means, for example, you can create a GPT that will link through to some sort of external revenue stream (or external product).
Example built by OpenAI: StickerWhiz
1. Design your own sticker
2. Confirm quantity and size
3. Click link generated by ChatGPT to external website to complete your purchase
If you can build something like this - and bake in some form of defensibility so others can't simply copy you - then there's an opportunity to build a great business
Oh 100%. I saw for example @levelsio made a dating app profile review GPT that redirects you to his AI photo generator (paid) webapp as an optional next step. So you don't even need formal integration necessarily depending on your value prop
The difference is the App Store was purely a platform, whereas ChatGPT apps are more like future product features.
The more pertinent analogy is Amazon Marketplace and Amazon Basics: Where Amazon lets vendors experiment with ideas at their own risk, and then spots opportunities to add to their assortment of Basics products and undercut existing suppliers.
OpenAI did this recently with its “chat with PDF” feature, for example.
For me the OpenAI marketplace is nice for making a quick buck, or building a cool portfolio project - which is not a bad outcome, just not quite the chance to build a business...
@nick I think you're partially right. The big difference for me is the fact that you will still be able to build using external APIs. The means, for example, you can create a GPT that will link through to some sort of external revenue stream (or external product).
Example built by OpenAI: StickerWhiz
1. Design your own sticker
2. Confirm quantity and size
3. Click link generated by ChatGPT to external website to complete your purchase
If you can build something like this - and bake in some form of defensibility so others can't simply copy you - then there's an opportunity to build a great business
Oh 100%. I saw for example @levelsio made a dating app profile review GPT that redirects you to his AI photo generator (paid) webapp as an optional next step. So you don't even need formal integration necessarily depending on your value prop