It was pretty easy to see coming, and I think we’ve arrived — AI tools that are built for a single purpose are dead.
Over the last few years, we’ve seen thousands of very specific AI tools launch (mostly powered by ChatGPT behind the scenes), that really didn’t offer much.
There have been AI tools for social media posts, and AI tools for email marketing, and AI tools for organizing data, and the list goes on. As Dustin Stout shared, these were “nothing more than a preset prompt wrapped in a pretty interface.“
If you pay for an AI tool other than one of the big ones (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Gemini), I’d be very curious to hear about your use case. The only ones that might make sense today are tools that do heavier lifting (like video), but even those are in big trouble in the coming months.
It wasn’t theirs
I think a big part of the problem here is that the tools weren’t really owned by those that created them. Most of them pulled in ChatGPT and then just pointed it in a specific direction. That was mildly helpful for a little while, but as the AI platforms have becoming more advanced the need for that kind of tool has vanished.
Do you use any AI tools other than the major players right now?
