I'm interested to see which companies and industries are willing to put ChatGPT between them and their customers, and how many will strongly push back against this feature.

I'm guessing it will be wildly successful. Companies don't really care about middlemen between them and their users. They just want to reach them wherever, however they can.

Has there been any successful app stores since the mobile app stores, which made developers fortunes selling fart apps, thus making it highly appealing for others to try and chase the same?

Every one I can think of since gets a bit of initial interest hoping to relive the mobile app store days, but interest wanes quickly when they realize that nobody wants to buy fart apps anymore. That ship sailed a long time ago.

And ChatGPT apps are in a worse position as it doesn't even have a direct monetization strategy. It suggests that maybe you can send users to your website to buy products, but they admit that they don't really know what monetization should look like...

I can certainly think of some organizations that fit into that bucket. I can also name organizations that are hyper controlling and micromanage every aspect of the interaction with their core products and services because they value consistency above all else.

I wonder if we'll have a situation where out of two competing organizations only one is elected to use this and the other one staunchly opposes. That will be telling.

Atlas being created is kinda the shot across the bow. You can integrate with us willingly, or we'll hook into your web apps anyways. One retains at least some control. Same outcome as Disney's deal with Sora.

You'd be surprised! In B2C at least, almost every company we talked to is building a ChatGPT App out ouf fear of missing out this agentic wave like so many missed mobile 15 years ago

Travel. Finding hotels, flights etc.

Some context around what this is might be helpful.

I keep hoping that someone else sees something in it and comes up with a neat description :D

People often surf the internet, or even chat with friends - to simply rediscover concepts. Noticing a word, "trust", for example, and thinking "ha, that's that word that explains most of the friction in our team". Then your mind starts coming up with all the associations related to the concept of trust and how it applies to your situation. "Time well spent" you think to yourself, often downplaying the tax that you have to pay.

This application is an attempt to gather some of those keywords without all the extra noise. To help a user to register information from his experience, to find connections and to get new perspectives on ordinary things.

Thank you and I'm glad you enjoy the project. I'll have to look more into UDP for this type of solution.

Author here. Thanks for reading. This was a massive learning project for me, I'm happy to answer questions or feedback.

FYI: A couple of the images down in the article are not loading (And later some seem to be incorrectly formatted). I'm especially looking forward to the exploded button.

D'oh. Thank you for letting me know. All fixed now. Hopefully "exploded button" wasn't too misleading (more of an exploded view of the design).

bro your images are giant. every load of the page is transferring 40ish MB. back_panel_back_render.png is 11.3 MB. replace those with smaller versions and click to link to the larger.. but I do see both cloudfront and cloudflare headers so not sure why these aren't being cached by them

Thanks for letting me know, I will have to fix this soon. This was the first post as part of a new blogging setup I'm using and clearly I'm missing some of my old processes (like image resizing).

They are photographic images saved as PNG, which is lossless and intended for digitally created images with large areas of pixels with the exact same value. Please use a format intended for photographic images. Splashflag.png is 4.5 MB, it's 10.5 MB as an uncompressed BMP file, but only 600 KB as a JPEG with indistinguishable quality loss.

They probably need the origin server to set the right cache headers, otherwise the cdn would get blamed for stale images

Almost Name Twin here (brett wagner) just saying hey.

Thanks for sharing, I will give this a try today. What is the rationale for requiring the app to be open and leaving the screen on (draining battery)? Was this a technical limitation?

Thank you, feedback greatly appreciated !!

I tried a few different implementations (e.g. using background video/audio), but ultimately the device’s unpredictable management of background apps made it impossible to distinguish between navigating away from the app and locking the phone. I ended up going with the “dumb” solution.

It actually works quite nicely (especially as a PWA on iOS) because it makes the stretch feel more intentional, and it discourages “gaming” the system by recording long stretches while sleeping.

I’ve found the battery drain is also pretty negligible over 2-3 hour stretches, the dark screen / pixels seem to help a lot.

Fun game, reminds me of the numbers round of Countdown. I would love to be able to use keyboard shortcuts instead of having to click.

I get the desire for menu personalization to get customers to buy more, but many of these other solutions seem to be jamming AI into non-AI problems:

Other tech initiatives Dine Brands is testing include AI-powered cameras that can detect when a table needs to be cleared

Is this really more efficient than looking out over the dining room (or taking a quick walk around) to see which tables need to be cleared?

Who cares? It's cheaper if you plan on letting go of all staff except for one overworked person who just follows prompts from the AI.

I've never thought of using a smart plug button as a switch to run a script - pretty neat idea I might use for some other projects.

I hope you have more luck than me with sticking with the switch instead of just editing /etc/hosts.

I rigged up one of these so my wife could go push the button and her phone would play an alarm sound so she could find it when it goes missing.

Was a good hack for a bit, but then the children figured out they could actually use the same button to _find their mom_, since the she was usually colocated with the phone!

Did you need to write an app for the phone?

I had the script call the phone, and set the phone to "emergency bypass" for that incoming number and set the ringtone to alarm bells