2026-04-01. Nomoyu Daily for Indie Developers (Issue 319)

📰 News

Behind OpenAI’s retreat: is it finally time for the AI industry to settle the bill?

The AI industry has been telling stories for three years, and it has finally reached the moment when the bill must be paid.

OpenAI, which once crossed into a new hundred-billion-dollar market almost every week, suddenly announced at an all-hands meeting that it would cut all “side quests” and focus fully on the enterprise market.

Everyone is praising it for finally understanding strategic focus. I only see the panic it can no longer hide.

This contraction was never a voluntary choice. It is a defensive move after being forced into a corner by competitors. Axios data punctured all the dignity: just 10 weeks ago, OpenAI and Anthropic were roughly even in enterprise spending share. Now Anthropic has taken 73% of the market.

OpenAI once became a legend overnight through consumer users, but now it says consumer AI has “no future” and turns around to grab the enterprise market where its rivals are already firmly established.

That is not focus. That is losing its own home turf.

The split in the AI industry has never been as glaring as it is today.

Jensen Huang captured the essence in one sentence: companies with imagination use AI to create more possibilities; companies without imagination only use AI to cut jobs and costs.

Some use AI to open new growth frontiers. Others treat it as a fig leaf for management failure. The industry’s ceiling and floor are being stretched at the same time.

Even more ironic is that the metaverse, once hyped to the sky, is now mostly wreckage.

Meta’s Horizon Worlds closes and reopens like a joke no one cares about. Metaverse land that once sold for hundreds of thousands per square meter now cannot even attract a visitor.

Every concept without real user demand and matured only by capital will eventually burst, from the metaverse to the many consumer-AI gimmicks.

In 2025, the AI industry has fully moved from “who can tell the sexier story” into a survival knockout round of “who can actually make money.”

The tech industry will never lack romantic imagination, but the ones that survive are always the people with their feet on the ground.

🖥️ Software

Future Self

Future Self is an Android morning wake-up app that can play recordings and read task content through a phone call from your future self.

DeskClaw

DeskClaw is a local AI assistant installer that packages OpenClaw, supports switching between multiple models, and displays token usage and costs.

RemindFocus

RemindFocus is a minimalist Android brown-noise app focused on no ads and zero distractions to help users stay focused.

QuiccStatus

QuiccStatus is a simple status page and uptime monitoring tool that supports HTTP, TCP, and ping monitoring plus public status pages.

Zaiby

Zaiby is a receipt scanning and expense-splitting app with AI receipt recognition, item-level splitting, multi-currency support, and spending charts.

AI-meets

AI-meets is an AI mock interview app for practicing system design, behavioral interviews, and technical discussions.

书巢

书巢 is a home library management app that supports barcode scanning and ISBN lookup to organize books and track book assets.

Faurya

Faurya is a website analytics app that overlays traffic and revenue to help identify high-converting sources and funnel drop-off points.

RubixScript PDF Tool

RubixScript PDF Tool is a web-based PDF toolkit that supports offline signing, merging, splitting, and rotating, with no login required and no ads.

FiltersBase

FiltersBase is a generative AI image filter app that packages complex prompts and model settings into reusable filters.

ScoreLog

ScoreLog is an Android game-night scoring app that supports multiple game rules, real-time multiplayer matches, and league statistics.

Lift App

Lift App is a weightlifting motion analysis app that combines visual tracking, pose estimation, and watch data to evaluate training performance.

Boopity

Boopity is management software for independent pet sitters, unifying clients, appointments, pet profiles, messages, and payments.

PickOne

PickOne is an online polling tool that supports text, image, and video options, with cross-platform sharing and no registration required.

LandCopyAI

LandCopyAI is an AI landing-page generator that automatically analyzes competitors and creates SEO-optimized pages from a product description.

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