Consumers Overpay for Subscription Apps That Are Thin GPT Wrappers
Many popular consumer subscription apps are simple prompts wrapped around GPT with minimal added engineering, yet keep growing revenue through marketing and users forgetting to cancel. A community member built a site listing which features of these apps could be replicated with a free prompt, though the reception questioned whether this approach itself just duplicates the same shallow pattern.
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