Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by JohnMakin 657 days ago
> I just don't understand why people seem so upset about these new companies being GPT wrappers.

I mean there's a big difference between varying degrees of what a "wrapper" is - the issue I personally have are applications/SaaS that make absolutely wild claims about what it can do by integrating AI and the application backend is a stupidly thin wrapper around GPT that just sends the prompt and returns the result.

If you're doing a lot of other stuff, fine, but in this space there's no real definition of what "integrating AI" means other than just being exactly that, a wrapper around GPT. Which really isn't innovative or groundbreaking.

Regarding other SaaS being "wrappers" - yea, typically these "wrappers" are around proprietary code the company has also developed, not just blatantly re-selling another SaaS's services.

1 comments

A business doesn't need to be innovative or groundbreaking to make money.
So which GPT wrappers are profitable?