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Ask HN: Where are all the consumer ChatGPT apps?

3 points by maxalbarello ↗ HN
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?

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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”.
maxalbarello
independently of whether the app is completely LLM generated or not, my point was more regarding the incredible distribution that ChatGPT offers and why it is not being taken advantage of.

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?

dtagames
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.

maxalbarello
> 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

dtagames
It not really even an app. It's just a thread. You'd be better off with something like Cursor where you are reading and writing files on your own drive.