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From Custom GPTs to Apps — Has Anyone Made the Move?
I’m looking for practical experience from anyone who's already traveled this road. I built a suite of 21 custom GPTs focused on authors, publishing, and book marketing—tools for opportunity research, reader pain points, competitive gaps, book positioning, and related publishing workflows. Each was designed as a focused tool, not a general chatbot. My original plan was simple: distribute individual GPTs by direct link, with customers using them inside their own ChatGPT accounts. Then the ground shifted. OpenAI has ended new GPT creation and publishing on personal accounts. Existing GPTs still work, and ChatGPT Business may preserve some link-sharing options, but that feels more like a bridge than the long-term destination. So I’m now exploring the next question: What is the best way to turn an existing custom GPT into a standalone App or web-based tool? Ideally, I’m looking for a path that: - preserves the GPT’s instructions and workflow rather than rebuilding the concept from scratch; - gives authors and publishers a simple interface without requiring them to understand prompts; - allows me to control access and eventually sell individual tools; - does not require maintaining an elaborate SaaS operation. I’m not wedded to any particular platform. I’m interested in what people have actually built and deployed—whether with the OpenAI API, ChatGPT Apps, WordPress, no-code/low-code platforms, or another approach entirely. If you’ve converted a custom GPT into something customers can use outside the GPT Store ecosystem, what path did you take, and would you choose it again?
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There are a few options out there, but the do the, “How do I rebuild my GPT on their platform?” thing, which just recreates the locked in aspect that the custom GPTs are exposing now. I’m building the migration infrastructure/system that answers, “How do I extract my intellectual property from Platform A, preserve it faithfully, and deploy it to Platform B, C, or my own infrastructure?” Copying a prompt into another product’s chatbot builder (even via an API or integrated connector) isn’t going to cut it without a lot of additional (beyond baseline) regression testing. It might not be traditional source code, but I agree and hear what your underlying concern might be … that your GPTs have activity that needs to be preserved (prompt engineering + documents + schemas + guardrails + workflows + APIs + test cases + tacit design decisions).
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@Dr. John Elcik that is exactly what I’m building. 😊 Individual tenancies that are encrypted and yours, to then deploy your assets wherever. I’ve put out a data/help request to the group if you want to help 😊
Request 😊
Hey team, I have a slightly nerdy request for the group. 😁 With OpenAI now deprecating Custom GPTs and moving towards Plugins, I’ve been digging into what this actually means for people who have spent a lot of time building their own GPTs. There’s an interesting gap in the information available at the moment. OpenAI has documented parts of the GPT > Plugin migration process, but the rollout and exact experience vary depending on account/workspace type, and it’s surprisingly difficult to establish exactly what information an owner can retrieve from an existing GPT in a structured form. I don’t actually own any Custom GPTs, so I’ve hit an annoying practical roadblock in investigating it myself. 😂 Would anyone here who has created their own GPT be willing to volunteer one for a little technical investigation? 🤔 I’m particularly interested in people on Plus or Pro personal accounts, although Business/Enterprise examples would also be useful. Bonus points if your GPT has Knowledge files and/or Actions configured. I don’t need access to your account, your proprietary prompts, Knowledge contents, credentials, or anything sensitive. The exercise involves you opening your own GPT in your own ChatGPT web client, and looking at some browser Developer Tools information while the GPT editor loads. Anything proprietary can be completely redacted. I’m essentially trying to answer the question, “When the owner opens and edits an existing Custom GPT, what information about that GPT does ChatGPT actually make available to the owner’s browser, and in what form?” It should only take about 10-15 minutes. If you’re willing to help, then please reply here or DM me and I’ll send you the exact steps. No technical heroics will be required, and I’ll happily walk you through DevTools if you’ve never used it. I’d ideally love 2–3 volunteers across different account types so I can compare what OpenAI is actually doing rather than relying solely on documentation and assumptions. 😊
Custom Instructions or a GPT? Use the smaller tool first
Custom Instructions and GPTs can both save you from repeating yourself, but they solve different problems. Use Custom Instructions for the rules you want in most chats. Your usual tone, your audience, British spelling, how concise you like answers, and a reminder not to invent facts are all good examples. Keep this short and stable. If it changes every week, it probably does not belong there. Use a custom GPT when you have one repeatable job with its own instructions, examples or reference files. Think of a proposal helper, a content brief checker, or a meeting-notes organiser. It gives that job its own little workspace, so your everyday chats do not become a filing cabinet with no labels. A simple rule: start with Custom Instructions if you want better answers across the board. Build a GPT when you keep doing the same specific task and want a reusable starting point. Before creating anything, write down the job in one sentence and test it in a normal chat twice. If the same instructions keep coming back, that is your cue to turn it into a GPT. Which repeat task would you most like to stop explaining from scratch?
Custom Instructions or a GPT? Use the smaller tool first
2 likes • Aug 20
@Sondra Verva Custom GPTs are still very much a thing. The UI has changed so that building/editing GPTs is currently web-only. You can use GPTs on mobile, but creation and editing require the web interface..
2 likes • Aug 20
@Sondra Verva I have to apologise. 🙏🏻😊 I hadn’t actually created/edited my custom GPTs since June. 😞 You’re right though. The ability has been removed for all but Business, Enterprise, and Edu workspaces. Existing custom GPTs still function, however, which is why I didn’t notice. That was a sneaky change. 😡 I did some digging in the docs … no direct official announcement or release note, which is very poor show. Only thing vaguely suggesting a remova of/change to GPT’s was from an announcement on 22 April, “GPTs will remain available while teams test workspace agents with their workflows. Soon, we’ll make it easy to convert GPTs into workspace agents.” I dug a little more, and it looks like the change was being rolled out around 12 Aug when the help pages were updated to reflect the new policy (still no announcement though 🤷🏻‍♂️😡).
I need help to make prompt.
1. The domain of this prompt should be: Shopping Craft a clear, natural-language question that requires web research to answer and has exactly one verifiable answer. The question should be complex enough that reaching the correct answer requires consulting at a minimum of 3 distinct sources. Please ensure your prompt is between 70 - 150 words in length. Test Your Prompt Please review instructions to start a new chat through this video to copy your prompt and submit your prompt into 3 new chats using 3 different tabs in your ChatGPT using GPT-5.5 Pro Thinking Extended. You can test all three at the same time. After the models finish responding, confirm that at least 2/3 produce a meaningful model failure, meaning it reaches an incorrect final answer. The following do not count as model failures and will result in task rejection: Minor rounding or formatting differences Abbreviations or stylistic variations Failures caused by an underspecified or ambiguous prompt Responses with incorrect reasoning but the correct final answer 2. Confirm the Model Failure Review the models final answer and compare it to your verified answer. Only continue if 2/3 the models produced an incorrect final answer. The failure must be caused by the model, not by an ambiguous or underspecified prompt. Do not continue if: The final answer is correct. The only differences are formatting, abbreviations, or minor rounding. The prompt is ambiguous or lacks enough information to determine a single correct answer. Please confirm how many responses failed felow: To ensure difficulty, after you submit your completed task, an automatic evaluation will run your prompt against the model 8 times to confirm it stumps the model at least 4 times. 1/3 Response Failed 2/3 Response Failed 3/3 Response Failed
1 like • Aug 18
I ran over 12 different prompts of increasing complexity and have yet to find a failure in all 36 separate tests. 😳 Interestingly, I said to self, self, this will be easy … until it wasn’t. 🤣 I think that my flaw for the first 12 was human in nature as I used the same underlying structure for all: Named products > named sources > extract stated figures > follow explicit calculation rules. I created some, what I thought were complicated prompts, but GPT‑5.5 divided the work into clean retrieval and arithmetic steps. Increasing quantities merely made the same task longer. 😳 I’m then moved outside of standard query and on to an inverse identification problem: 1. Define a finite product universe, such as one manufacturer’s Australian range. 2. Never name the target product (leant my lesson on that after the first few tries). 3. Derive independent constraints from at least three different sources. 4. Include two or three extremely plausible near-matches. 5. Hide the decisive disqualifying fact in a manual footnote, compatibility table, regulatory record, archived specification, or regional SKU distinction (in other words, don’t make it obvious). 6. Ask only for the surviving exact model or article number. In theory, this made it materially harder because: - The model must search exhaustively rather than find the first plausible match. - The correct answer depends on intersecting constraints, including negative evidence. - Similar regional and superseded products contaminate search results. - Arithmetic cannot rescue incorrect product identification. - A wrong model number is unequivocally a wrong final answer. I then added a provenance chain (identify an unknown product from a replacement-part code, trace that code through a supersession notice, reject the apparent successor because of a regional electrical or mechanical incompatibility, and find the only currently purchasable compatible SKU). To remove common data structure with easily traceable many to many relationships, I then built and verified the entire finite candidate table, including every near-match and its precise reason for exclusion.
ChatGPT Voice just had its biggest upgrade yet: what GPT-Live actually changes
OpenAI has released GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models that now powers ChatGPT Voice. It started rolling out globally yesterday across iOS, Android and the web. The headline change: it can listen and speak at the same time. Every previous version of Voice worked in turns. You talked, it waited for silence, then it answered. That is why it kept butting in when you paused to think, and why the whole thing felt a bit like a walkie talkie. GPT-Live processes what you say continuously, so you can interrupt it mid-sentence, pause to gather your thoughts without it jumping in, or tell it to stay quiet and just listen. It even gives the small acknowledgements a real person does, the odd "mhmm" so you know it is following. The second change is the one I think matters most for business use. When you ask for something that needs real work, a web search, proper reasoning, digging through a file, it hands that job to GPT-5.5 in the background and keeps the conversation going while it runs. You can also pick a reasoning level: Instant for quick answers, Medium or High when you want it to think harder before it speaks. A few practical details worth knowing. GPT-Live-1 becomes the default for paid plans, with a mini version as the default for free users. It can now show visual cards while you talk, things like weather, stocks and sports. It is better at ignoring background noise. And at launch it does not support video or screen sharing, so if you use those, the older voice modes are still available. Here is my take on why this deserves your attention. Voice has been the feature most business owners try once and quietly abandon, because talking to a turn-based bot feels like effort. The interesting shift is that voice can now hold a natural conversation while real work happens underneath it. That starts to look less like a gimmick and more like thinking out loud with an assistant. The obvious first test: next time you are driving or walking, talk through a business problem with it for ten minutes and see what you come back with.
ChatGPT Voice just had its biggest upgrade yet: what GPT-Live actually changes
1 like • Jul 10
@Jason West wait, so you can’t simply create a project, upload the relevant reference files (stock and pice lists, google drive links for constantly fresh/live data, etc.), and then run voice within that project? 🤔 Or, is @Christina Ramirez referring to during the voice convo? I’m confused. 🤣
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