Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT

Posted by tananaev 12/17/2025

Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT(openai.com)

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ipnon 12/18/2025|

The implicit announcement is that GPT is not forecasted to be an everything machine anytime in the near future.

dcre 12/18/2025|

Not much of an announcement if you’ve paid attention to anything the company has done in the past two years.

asimpleusecase 12/18/2025||

ITS A TRAP! If your app is successful their infrastructure will see all the traffic, your responses and will be able to mimic what you do and kick the husk of your app in the weeds. (Unless your function comes from some massive unique dataset they can’t by access to.)

FergusArgyll 12/18/2025|

How would they mimic zillow or canva??

Eldodi 12/18/2025||

If you want to quickly get started, we developed a react-based, type-safe framework to build chatgpt apps: https://github.com/alpic-ai/skybridge

timfsu 12/18/2025||

It's not clear how much ChatGPT is investing in the discovery part of the app store experience, so this seems like mostly a way for users to install apps they're already familiar with and use them from inside a chat. For now, it seems like you have to explicitly @-mention an app to use it.

quinncom 12/18/2025||

What is the execution environment of ChatGPT apps? If it’s users’ browsers, do I now need to worry about code that is running without my permission? Is ChatGPT gonna be cryptojacking?

fellowniusmonk 12/17/2025||

Is this an attempt to engender developer goodwill that they've lost over 5.2s overfitting issues?

I've canceled my subscription, I don't plan on releasing an app to their platform.

deepvibrations 12/18/2025||

Also cancelled - it does feel like commoditisation is here now for LLMs. Recently, I've found Gemini & DeepSeek as good or better at 95% of what GPT can do now, so I can no longer justify paying for it.

dcre 12/18/2025||

They’ve been planning this since October.

Zufriedenheit 12/18/2025||

Before artificial general intelligence there will be artificial general interface. One AI model will become the UI to all other services and apps. Maybe.

vrighter 12/19/2025||

All they seem to be creating is new APIs to interact with the models they created years ago. It's pretty clear that new models are not viable to train and that the supposed "scaling laws" are bovine feculence.

simonw 12/17/2025||

This was the feature they announced at DevDay in October. I've not heard a great deal of buzz about it since, but that may just be because it takes a couple of months for credible teams to build something interesting on top of this.

bertwagner 12/17/2025|

I'm interested to see which companies and industries are willing to put ChatGPT between them and their customers, and how many will strongly push back against this feature.

petcat 12/17/2025||

I'm guessing it will be wildly successful. Companies don't really care about middlemen between them and their users. They just want to reach them wherever, however they can.

9rx 12/17/2025|||

Has there been any successful app stores since the mobile app stores, which made developers fortunes selling fart apps, thus making it highly appealing for others to try and chase the same?

Every one I can think of since gets a bit of initial interest hoping to relive the mobile app store days, but interest wanes quickly when they realize that nobody wants to buy fart apps anymore. That ship sailed a long time ago.

And ChatGPT apps are in a worse position as it doesn't even have a direct monetization strategy. It suggests that maybe you can send users to your website to buy products, but they admit that they don't really know what monetization should look like...

baby_souffle 12/17/2025||||

I can certainly think of some organizations that fit into that bucket. I can also name organizations that are hyper controlling and micromanage every aspect of the interaction with their core products and services because they value consistency above all else.

I wonder if we'll have a situation where out of two competing organizations only one is elected to use this and the other one staunchly opposes. That will be telling.

a_vanderbilt 12/17/2025|||

Atlas being created is kinda the shot across the bow. You can integrate with us willingly, or we'll hook into your web apps anyways. One retains at least some control. Same outcome as Disney's deal with Sora.

Eldodi 12/18/2025|||

You'd be surprised! In B2C at least, almost every company we talked to is building a ChatGPT App out ouf fear of missing out this agentic wave like so many missed mobile 15 years ago

gondo 12/17/2025||

Travel. Finding hotels, flights etc.

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