Developer: ChatGPT Desktop App's Polish is Unmatched, Hard to Emulate with Small Teams
mark_k · x · 2026-07-23
A developer replying to OpenAI noted that the high level of polish in the ChatGPT desktop app and Codex makes it incredibly difficult for competitors to keep up. Building such a refined app requires a singularly dedicated team that eats, dreams, and lives the product 24/7 while constantly dogfooding it. The developer emphasized that trying to emulate this success with just a couple of developers is simply unrealistic.
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