# Ask HN: Why so few consumer AI companies? > Source: > Published: 2026-07-09 22:13:04+00:00 | |||||||||||| 1 point by | I feel like everyone in SF is doing agentic b2b saas. For ai consumer founders-whats been your experience building? I have some hypothesis 1) almost all consumers dont accept ai(80%+) therefore market is small 2) investors dont believe it so no founders do it 3) consumers are used to free apps and LLM costs creates a cost floor which is unsustainable If I had to guess its most likely reason 3 | ||||||||||| |