Ask HN: Why so few consumer AI companies?

A Hacker News user asks why there are so few consumer AI companies, hypothesizing that high LLM costs create an unsustainable cost floor for free apps, that most consumers do not accept AI, and that investors are skeptical of the market.

| |||||||||||| 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 | ||||||||||| |