I was an early Alexa PM for Skills back in 2017. Even back then when Alexa had all the hype and first mover advantage, it was extremely difficult to provide any meaningful traction to “Skills developers” for various reasons (friction in VUI, discoverability issues mainly)
Fast forward to 2023 when OpenAI came up with GPT Store, it felt like a deja vu of Alexa skills in some sense. My understanding is that GPTs are also struggling to gain good traction.
There are some fundamental reasons why conversational 3rd party platforms are hard. If there’s any interest I will write about it in the Enterprise AI substack (nextword.substack.com)
Fast forward to 2023 when OpenAI came up with GPT Store, it felt like a deja vu of Alexa skills in some sense. My understanding is that GPTs are also struggling to gain good traction.
There are some fundamental reasons why conversational 3rd party platforms are hard. If there’s any interest I will write about it in the Enterprise AI substack (nextword.substack.com)