I'm still surprised to see that there are barely any consumer apps. Loads of business, productivity, retail, etc. But what about all the consumer AI use cases?
I would love to see games, journaling, dating, content apps. Any idea why they are not (yet) there?
one of the biggest problems of many consumer apps is convincing people to download it and give it a try. For many consumer apps like journaling, fitness tracking, nutrition, ... it seems that letting people use them where they are already spending a lot of time (i.e. ChatGPT) could be a great distribution advantage. Yet I could barely find any purely consumer ChatGPT apps and so I'm wondering what's missing. Any ideas?
None of those are "ChatGPT apps" which is just a poor and early UI layer over regular chat. No one wanted to use those or make them for other people.
but why not?
personally i find it much easier to track my food, workouts, daily diaries etc. in ChatGPT/Claude as I already use them for everything else. no need for a standalone app when the app could simply plugin into ChatGPT.
wondering if it's a UX problem or a more fundamental one like platform risks