OpenAI’s Everything App Trap

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This week, on AppStories, we return to a topic that’s an old favorite: the Everything App in honor of OpenAI’s announcement that they are building a Super App.

On AppStories+, Federico consolidates the tools and services he uses.

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Links and Show Notes
The Everything App Trap
• OpenAI raises $122 billion to accelerate the next phase of AI (openai.com/index/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai)
• OpenAI Bets Big on Building an Everything App (macstories.net/linked/openai-bets-big-on-build…)

• Daring Fireball (daringfireball.net/2026/04/openai_future)

AppStories+ Post-Show:
• Federico’s AI Tool Consolidation
• Services and Apps Discussed:
• Claude (claude.ai)

• Claude Code (anthropic.com/claude-code)

• ChatGPT (chatgpt.com)

• Perplexity (perplexity.ai)

• Google Gemini (gemini.google.com)

• Telegram (telegram.org)

• Firecrawl (firecrawl.dev)

• SerpAPI (serpapi.com)

• Parallel.ai (parallel.ai)

• Feedbin (feedbin.com)

• Obsidian (obsidian.md)