What Is a Productype?

Here's the situation. You prompt an AI coding tool, it generates an app, you ship it, and people actually use it. It's not a prototype: you didn't throw it away. It's not a product: nobody's paying for it. So what is it? The definition A productype is software you maintain for a small audience that could become a product but hasn't yet. Picture a spectrum: Prototype → built to learn, then discarded. Productype → maintained, useful, serving real users, uncommitted to commercialization. Product → monetized, ed, marketed.