Remember when the iPhone App Store launched in 2008? Developers suddenly had a direct line to millions of users. The entire software economy transformed overnight.
The App Store didn’t just give us apps. It gave us a dream: build something useful, click publish, and millions of users could find it. No sales team. No distribution deals. Just you, your idea, and a platform.
That dream died somewhere between algorithm changes and app store optimization hell.
But what if I told you it’s being reborn — not in a marketplace of icons, but inside the one interface people already use every day? What if the next great platform isn’t something you download apps to, but something that brings apps to you?
OpenAI just made a move that could redefine software distribution for the AI era. They’ve built something that looks like two separate announcements but is actually one audacious bet: that ChatGPT can become the App Store for intelligent agents.
And here’s the twist — they’re giving you the tools to build those agents without writing a single line of code.
The Platform Play Nobody Saw Coming
At OpenAI’s developer conference in San Francisco this week, they unveiled two…