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📣 maxalbarello

Where are all the consumer ChatGPT apps?


For several months I've been checking https://track.appsdiscoverability.com which is tracking all the apps built on ChatGPT and Claude.

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?

  👤 dtagames Accepted Answer ✓
LLMs are being used in all those apps but it's inside the codebase where you're not going to see it. They either use AI-assisted development or they have app features that call an LLM from the inside.

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.

👤 Daishiman
Turns out that even when an LLM does most of the brunt work you still need the guidance and steering of experienced engineers, who have no interest in selling their apps as being “made by ChatGPT”.