Only a few products can achieve a "verb status" in the past 40 years history of the Internet:
Just Google it Can you Venmo me? I'll Uber there. The latest product that became a verb is Zoom: Let's Zoom.
ChatGPT is getting there but it's still not as common to say "ChatGPT it" yet.
If a product wants to achieve the verb status like the ones above, it needs to:
1, solve a very very clear and unique problem so people always think of it when facing that problem, 2, achieve a critical mass user base so it's people know what the name means in any everyday convo, and 3, be very memorable and simple.
I think if ChatGPT was called something a bit simpler it could have achieved the verb status already.
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Only a few products can achieve a "verb status" in the past 40 years history of the Internet:
Just Google it
Can you Venmo me?
I'll Uber there.
The latest product that became a verb is Zoom: Let's Zoom.
ChatGPT is getting there but it's still not as common to say "ChatGPT it" yet.
If a product wants to achieve the verb status like the ones above, it needs to:
1, solve a very very clear and unique problem so people always think of it when facing that problem,
2, achieve a critical mass user base so it's people know what the name means in any everyday convo,
and 3, be very memorable and simple.
I think if ChatGPT was called something a bit simpler it could have achieved the verb status already.