The Problem
Arrival of clones was taking a market-share, however, it was no-where close to the actual problem that we were facing. You see, template-based platforms, be it Wix, Shopify or Sttabot always face one major problem of limited functionality.
Our users at Sttabot were able to create a chatbot from 3 or 4 UI templates that we used to provide them. To get started, it is fine. However, if you are paying for a service, you do not want to be dependent on some other platform for your creation to work or get an upgrade.
There were certain drawbacks that none of the prompt-to-app platforms were able to solve and the users desperately needed it :
An AI Application isn’t a chatbot. If you are building a content generation app, you don’t want your users to chat to get output. You just want a tool where they can put in the input and get the results.
Limited UI Control. Businesses integrating an AI have no option to take full control over how the application looks. Also, as templates are limited, there always remains a high possibility that their users might understand that the enterprise is using a third-party service for running the AI.
Functionality Control. You can not integrate third party services, nor can you add more functionalities in your AI so far. You need to hire a development team to code an AI from scratch to do this.
Server-Side Dependency. All the current AI apps are deployed on the platform’s server and hence are fully dependent on them. In case of an uptime dysfunctionality of the platform, users’ applications will also stop working. Any data-loss on the core server will also mean a data-loss for the client.
Scalability Issue. The applications are the platform’s assets. In case the platform decides to wind-up from the market, their apps will also be lost. Also, users have no way to scale their application if their MVP or early version performed well and now they want to scale it into an actual solution.
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