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I've been a mobile developer for the past 10 years and my overall belief is that mobile app development has slower growth and companies with the mobile team are investing less on mobile Dev or testing+tooling+education. Do you think the market is still hot once it was to use your product?

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I would say that mobile apps are still the primary format for launching new consumer services, incl. new apps like ChatGPT and many others. However we’ve observed that teams are expected to do more with less—delivering high-quality products while ensuring compliance, often with the same or even smaller team sizes. This is why we focus on minimizing the engineering burden, particularly when it comes to repetitive tasks like regression testing, which can be especially painful to maintain in the mobile ecosystem due to use of third-party integrations (authentication, payments, etc.).

> mobile apps are still the primary format for launching new consumer services, incl. new apps like ChatGPT and many others

OpenAI launched ChatGPT to the public on the web first and it took like, several months I think from I used their public web version until they had an official app for it in App Store. In the meantime, some third party apps popped up in App Store for using ChatGPT. I kept using the web version until the official app showed up. And probably having the mobile app in App Store has helped them grow to the number of users they have now. But IMO, ChatGPT as a product was not itself “launched” on App Store and they seemed to do very well in terms of adoption even when initially they only had the web version. The main point, that mobile apps are still desired, I agree with though.

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