99% of GPTs Lack Moats, thoughts on the GPTs Store

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I talked about a similar topic recently on my show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__0smuR6HLA&t=1381s). I developed a plugin that has been live in the plugin store for months. It was an interesting exercise and certainly fun to make (It’s the ‘I am rich’ plugin) but without a way to monetize a plugin, I’m not sure what motivation there is for developers to make plugins. Then OpenAI released GPT-4 vision, then turbo and how many plugins did that render obsolete? Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they are working on the monetization issue when it comes to motivation, but what happens when developers work to create GPTs that are then rendered obsolete in a matter of months by the next iteration of the foundation model? I don’t think this is necessarily an issue of developers only creating thin wrappers, I think the technology is just moving too fast for the platform.