Comparison
ChatGPT helps you. A fad helps your customers.
ChatGPT is a general assistant. You open it, ask anything, and it answers from its wide training. It is excellent for writing, planning and learning. A fad is different. It is a chatbot you build for your business, fed only your files and notes, living at fad.fyi/yourname where your customers can chat with it any time. Different jobs, both useful.
| fad.fyi | ChatGPT | |
|---|---|---|
| Knows your business | Yes. It answers only from the files, links, text and Q&A you feed it. | No. It knows nothing about your shop unless you paste details into every chat. |
| Your customers can use it | Yes. Anyone opens fad.fyi/yourname or your website widget and chats, no account needed. | No. Customers cannot chat with your ChatGPT at a public link. |
| When it does not know | Says it does not know and offers your WhatsApp or contact details. | May answer from general knowledge, which can be wrong for your specific business. |
| WhatsApp handoff | Built in. One tap opens your WhatsApp with the question prefilled. | Not available. |
| Hindi and Hinglish | Understands and replies in English, Hindi and Hinglish, matching the visitor. | Understands many languages well, including Hindi. |
| Setup | About 5 minutes on a phone. Feed a file or text and share the link. | Nothing to set up. Open it and start typing. |
| General knowledge and writing help | Not for this. It sticks to what you fed it. | Excellent. Drafts, summaries, ideas, translations, code and more. |
| Cost | Free plan: 3 fads, 10 sources each. Pro coming soon. | Free tier available; paid plans for more features and heavier use. |
- You need help writing emails, product descriptions or social posts. ChatGPT is built for that.
- You want general knowledge, research or brainstorming for yourself, not a tool for customers.
- Your questions change every day and none of them are about one fixed business.
Use both. Open ChatGPT when you need a smart assistant for yourself: writing, planning, learning. Build a fad when your customers need answers about your business while you are busy. You can even use ChatGPT to write the notes you then paste into your fad. One is a helper for you. The other is a helper for the people you serve.
Try fad.fyi freeQuestions people ask
Is a fad built on ChatGPT?
A fad is a chatbot you build and feed on fad.fyi. What matters for you is how it behaves: it answers only from your sources, says so when it does not know, and lives at your own link. You do not need a ChatGPT account to create or use a fad.
Can I just share my ChatGPT chat with customers?
Not in a useful way. Your customers cannot chat with your ChatGPT at a public link. Even if you paste your shop details into a chat, that knowledge stays in your account and your conversation. A fad is made for this: one public link, your knowledge loaded, open to every visitor.
Which gives better answers about my shop?
The fad, because it only uses what you fed it and refuses to guess. ChatGPT may give a confident general answer that is wrong for your shop, like a return policy you do not have. For anything outside your business, ChatGPT knows far more.