Will ChatGPT become the new app store?

Will ChatGPT become the new app store? Doubt it.
The idea is logical: you need more long scenarios, more content (why, I hope, is obvious), more reasons to stay inside the ecosystem.
But let’s remember what we’ve already seen, and what questions you should ask yourself in advance:
1/
Telegram
already tried to launch its own AppStore. And it even kinda worked for a couple months. Remember that boom of crypto scams? The problem was simple:
no real recommendation system.
No traffic distribution at all, just invites and external UA from bots lol. And on top of that — very limited options for developers.
2/ “
What about WeChat?
” Yeah, WeChat is cool. But it’s important to understand the context: a closed internet environment, language barrier, dense interfaces (historically), government regulation. And the main thing is that everything rests on
payment integration.
3/
Google
? Not mini-apps either, but at least it’s clear
how distribution works.
There are rules of the game: PageRank, keywords, content quality, links. And what do we know about ChatGPT Apps? Right, we don’t know shit.
4/ Which brings us to the main question:
how do you even compete?
How is a developer supposed to influence traffic distribution at all?
5/ Some people will see this announcement as an Apple AppStore analogue. But no. Apple has APIs to work with the hardware. ChatGPT doesn’t. Your main “super app” is your phone. You don’t need a new one.
I don’t think ChatGPT should be getting into the engagement-via-apps game. Content is a much more logical direction.
Though overall it’s a decent move, respect to the team. The speed at which OpenAI ships new stuff is just insane.
We’ll see where this whole “GPTs” story leads. Integrations are needed, yeah.
But the real power is always in
the long tail.
I want to be wrong. I want a new app store.