The Great App Remix: How ChatGPT Will Gut the App Economy
OpenAI just made ChatGPT a command center for your apps, pulling info from everywhere and acting on it in one step. Nex step is agents taking actions on your behalf.
Hey Everyone,
Today OpenAI announced ChatGPT can now connect to gmail, drive, teams (/vomits), outlook, dropbox, box, and more.
What makes ChatGPT so powerful, and far better than Google’s outdated keyword search, is its ability to pull data from multiple sites and remix it into a single, smarter answer.
No more reading five blog posts just to figure something out. (Insert your obligatory “yeah, but what about hallucinations” guy here. That’s either getting fixed or will become such a low-probability issue that it’s worth the risk for the productivity gain—like when you DoorDash avocados and sometimes get crap ones, yet you still keep using DoorDash because the overall time savings are worth it.)
The Future of app interactions
Like it or not, most apps are just glorified databases, yet we still use them as if direct human interaction is the only option. It’s like asking a software engineer to manually run their code every time someone wants to use it, no automation, no efficiency.
Someone invites me to a party on Partiful. I need to RSVP and book an Uber. Why should I open two separate apps?
Soon, ChatGPT will just ask:
"Want me to RSVP, tell the host what you're bringing, and book your Uber?"
Any normal person would say yes.
No more tapping through low-value apps. Let your AI handle it so you can move on with your life.
ChatGPT adds value by doing work, not just giving info. It remixes apps like Partiful and Uber into one seamless flow, making both far more useful inside ChatGPT than through their own bloated UIs.
That’s the future.
App developers will resist it, like Airbnb’s CEO, but they’ll lose. They have to resist it because ChatGPT will either demand a cut of their revenue or redirect order flow to a competitor like Lyft, who’s happy to burn margins to steal Uber’s market share.
But what about agent misfires?
OpenAI will replicate what Microsoft did to indemnify early enterprise adopters of ChatGpt. OpenAI will create some sort of guarantee that if agent somehow falters, you can get a 100% refund on screw up.
I even spoke to a Google engineering director about how this will play out:
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Cheers,
Jordan