Reading up on ChatGPT

This week’s ChatGPT feature drop - Aug 28: The team won't let me take a week off with these posts. Here's what we shipped 🚀 this week: 1/ Scheduled tasks for free users: Now anyone can create recurring tasks for ChatGPT. "Every Thursday, tell me about cool events happening this weekend nearby". 2/ Stickers: Use Imagegen to turn any photo into a sticker pack to share on iMessage or WhatsApp. If you like stickers in iMessage, this one's for you. 3/ Save temp chats: By popular request, you can now save a temporary chat to your sidebar after you've started it. You can also choose to use memory for temp chat. It's a nice quality of life improvement! 4/ Multiple accounts for Google plugins: Lots of people ask ChatGPT questions about their email and calendar (only available for paid users for now). You can now add more Google accounts so you can ask about all your accounts! 5/ Voice widgets in lock screen: Voice conversations now show things like weather and sports in the iOS Live Activity, even when your screen is locked. See you next week!

@adamhfry

ChatGPT Voice on watchOS 27 beta:

@keleftheriou

Question for ChatGPT iPhone users: have you figured out when to use Chat and when to use Work yet? What kind of tasks are you switching to Work for? Have you made Work your default?

@simonw

A few updates to scheduled tasks in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile: Plus and Pro users can now set tasks to respond when something changes in Slack, Gmail, and Github, rather than just run on a set schedule. We’re also rolling out scheduled tasks in ChatGPT to Free users, who can create up to three tasks. You can also now share your favorite tasks for others to customize and use.

@ChatGPT

My full interview with Tibo (@thsottiaux) 0:45 Tibo's Lessons from Google DeepMind 4:22 Building OpenAI’s Relentless Culture 7:23 Astra & Next Gen Models 11:18 How Fast AI Changes Developer Workflows 14:27 ChatGPT & Codex Merging 20:25 OpenAI vs. Anthropic 23:37 Why OpenAI Keeps Resetting Limits 30:25 Recursive Self-Improvement 32:00 Dangers That Caused "The Pause" 34:13 Will Ultra Fast Become the Default? 43:20 Why Everyone Needs to Try AI

@MatthewBerman

Everyday conversations just got easier with the new Apple Messages plugin. Search messages, catch up on conversations, draft and send replies—all with ChatGPT on your Mac. Now available in ChatGPT Work and Codex on desktop.

@ChatGPT

Yes if you update ChatGPT iOS you can finally do this!

@Dimillian

Pay attention to what Tally is doing in AI search right now because this might be the best playbook for getting recommended by ChatGPT I've seen: > AI search is now their #1 acquisition channel > 10,000+ new users every week say they discovered Tally through AI platforms > their tracked ChatGPT registrations jumped 5x overnight in May > they grew from $258K MRR to $422K MRR in 10 months, crossing $5M ARR with just 11 people, $0 funding, against much bigger competitors > their comparison hub now has 7 direct competitor pages + 15 more “best”, “alternative” and integration-focused guides > these pages are structured like AI answers: rankings, “best for” labels, pricing, feature tables, reviews, pros/cons and direct recommendations > they’re constantly refreshing these pages > they literally ask new users for the exact prompt they used to discover Tally through AI > they track the prompts people use to find them, their visibility vs competitors and which sources AI platforms actually cite > they've built a database of articles that mention competitors but not Tally to identify distribution gaps > they monitor brand + competitor mentions across Reddit and communities, then route them into a shared inbox and aim to clear all mentions every day > they actively ask customers for reviews through their newsletter + after support interactions, helping them reach 4.8/5 on G2 and 4.9/5 on Product Hunt > they built an entire “AI Info” page specifically for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity explaining what Tally is, who it’s for and why people use it > that page literally includes “AI assistant guidelines” telling LLMs which strengths, use cases and pricing model to reference > they published an llms.txt mapping out their product, pricing, customers, documentation, API and MCP pages > they even built a 21-tool MCP server + ChatGPT app + Claude connector so Tally can now be used directly inside AI products One thing to keep in mind: Tally didn’t start with some genius AI search strategy. They spent years building a product people genuinely recommended across Reddit, communities, reviews and the wider internet. ChatGPT recommends Tally because the internet does. But now they’re engineering around that signal to make sure it keeps happening. This isn’t luck, it’s possible for you too.

@jakezward

I think Grok @Bot is a glimpse into the future of personal AI agents. Here's my new tutorial where I show you how to set up 5 useful bots: 1. An advisor to create and manage your bots 2. A YouTube researcher to find outlier videos 3. An X scout to find viral and funny tweets 4. A digital Marie Kondo to clean up your inbox and save money on paid subscriptions 5. A personal concierge to save money on trips I also tested a Gamer bot to see if Grok Bot can install and play classic games like Doom, Red Alert, and Commander Keen. Plus, I discuss the biggest barrier to Grok Bot adoption and whether it can replace ChatGPT as my daily driver. 📌 Watch now:

@petergyang

Well, that was impressive. /goal is unstoppable on Codex (I still can't get myself to say @ChatGPT)

@ryancarson

Codex and ChatGPT can now understand the context of your recent work. Opt into Computer History to give ChatGPT richer context, so it can pick up where you left off, understand patterns in your work, and suggest skills or scheduled tasks for work you repeat.

@OpenAIDevs

1 year ago I asked chat GPT how to build an app Today : - 2 Million Users - $1.3 Million MRR - 1 Billion Views answering all questions on distribution 🫡

@ColeKosco_

It's funny... When I'm sitting in the Swiss trains, I often notice people working on their laptops. Opening Outlook. Copying things to an Excel sheet. Adding a few things to Word doc. Maybe, mayyybe, they'll open ChatGPT. Yeah, that's really how they work... 95% of people are still *hopelessly* behind on AI. And boring as it sounds - this is probably still one of the best ways to "make money" with AI right now. Here's what I'd do 👇

@SimonHoiberg

ChatGPT team is shipping:

@gdb

ok y'all know i love an anti-todo list (stuff AI can take off my plate FOREVER) in this ep of how i ai, @nickbaumann_ shows me all his expert voice + sites + chatgpt work tricks so i can hand even more off to codex jarvis-style voice assistants, lazy prompting, video use cases, yolo computer use -- this ep hits all my faves A huge thanks to our wonderful sponsors: ⚡️ @boltdotnew - turn your idea into a real product:

@clairevo

2016: build it and they will come 2021: write content and they will come 2026: be the answer ChatGPT gives, and they'll come

@tibo_maker

The biggest opportunities right now: 1. build for solving loneliness (the more AI floods everything, the more people crave real human connection, IRL and small social) 2. build for agents that need to spend money (they're getting virtual cards and budgets, someone builds the spend controls, fraud protection, receipts) 3. build for people drowning in AI output (everyone generates infinite drafts now, the bottleneck moved to reviewing and choosing, build the judgment layer) 4. build for the burnout economy (everyone is expected to always be on and always optimizing, and the backlash toward rest, slowness, and enough is building) 5. build for verifying humans (deepfakes broke trust, every dating app, marketplace, and video call needs proof-of-human within 2 years) 6. build for the physical world (the trades, hardware, robots that AI is finally reaching) 7. build for the agent that answers the phone (every local business misses calls after 5pm, a voice agent that books the job is worth thousands a month) 8. build for the aging (70M+ boomers who want to stay healthy, sharp, and connected) 9. build for the LLM-search land grab (being the cited answer is the new SEO) 10. build for the newly automated (the paralegal, the analyst, the marketer whose job just changed and needs to reskill fast) 11. build for the seat-pricing collapse (software repricing from $50/seat to per-outcome, whoever nails outcome billing wins a category) 12. build for AI enablement (95% of businesses use nothing beyond ChatGPT, someone has to onboard the other 95%) 13. build for the agency everyone resents (businesses pay $1k/mo to agencies they hate, an agent that does 80% of it undercuts the model) 14. build for verticals on 2011 software (dentists, HOAs, contractors, all overdue for an AI-native rebuild) 15. build for reviving dead software (thousands of abandoned apps with real users, agents can maintain what a team couldn't, buy and revive) 16. build for markets too small to matter before (500 lobster fishermen was never worth a team, now it's a weekend and a real business) 17. build for agents hiring agents (a shadow economy is forming, it needs escrow, reputation, and dispute resolution for machines) 18. build for the anti-AI premium (as everything gets generated, human-made and analog become status symbols people pay up for) 19. build for distribution-first (anyone can build the product now, so the audience is the moat, media company first, product second) 20. build for the reinvention of college (what does an MBA even mean anymore) 21. build for a world with more free time than it knows what to do with (if AI takes the busywork, the question becomes what people do with the hours, and that's a civilization sized market) note: more trends/ideas @ideabrowser (free to sign up) 22. build for the return to the physical (screens fill with slop, people crave the real world, the hands-on, the local, the analog) 23. build for the caregiving wave. The population is aging fast, tens of millions are caring for parents, and the whole burden is landing on families with no support. 24. build for the longevity shift (people want to live to 100 healthy, and a whole industry is forming around actively managing your own biology) 25. build for the housing and rootlessness problem (people can't afford to settle down, and the whole idea of a stable home base is up for grabs) 26. build for spiritual hunger (as institutions hollow out, the need for meaning, ritual, and belonging is exploding into new forms) KEEP BUILDING

@gregisenberg

Launching Copper, a Mac app for capturing things you want to keep and prompts you want to try next while working with AI. The more I use AI, the more I find myself collecting little things I don't want to lose. You're in ChatGPT and think, "I'll need this later," but you don't want to stop what you're doing. Then you're in Claude. Cursor. Chrome. Back to ChatGPT. Before long, you've got little things scattered everywhere. An answer you want to keep. A link. An idea. Or three follow-up prompts before the current one has even finished generating. I had this problem, so I built Copper. Copper combines the useful parts of a to-do list, a clipboard, and a scratchpad. It's built specifically for AI-assisted work. It sits next to where you work and is always one shortcut away. It works with all your AI apps, terminals and browsers. Whenever I find something worth keeping, I capture it. If I think of a few prompts while the AI is still responding, I type them into Copper. Then I send them back into ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor and check them off as I go. Copper is local and private. It doesn't sync anything, doesn't collect anything, and doesn't need an account. I've used Copper every day for the past few months. It has completely changed how I work. If this feels like something you'd use, it's $39. One-time purchase.

@shadcn

i've used so many harnesses over the past few months, i'm having trouble remembering *where* i had past conversations. claude desktop *chat*, claude desktop *cowork*, claude desktop *code*, claude code TUI, codex, chatgpt, hermes, openclaw, conductor 😭

@Shpigford

I made a prompting utility app. Like a prompting assistant. It works with all your existing apps, chatgpt, claude, cursor, web. It's been incredibly useful. I'm thinking about distribution (I think AI has made distributing the source much more interesting). If you buy it, would you rather receive A or B (poll in thread)?

@shadcn

is there any writing on chatgpt's new memory system it used to suck and is now very good

@thdxr

A ChatGPT automation just found ~$45K in erroneous invoices across 3 years of billing history that I've confirmed and already had resolved. My lifetime history for ChatGPT is ~$1,800, so it just paid for itself 25x over. I setup an automation with read-only access to my email, and tasked this one specifically with analyzing construction invoices. It has access to prior construction invoices, emails, meeting notes, etc. It produces a report and emails it to me (the only email its allowed to send, enforced by API token) whenever I receive a construction invoice. Across 3 years of construction projects, it found about $45K in issues. Some were wrong amounts, some were duplicate invoices, some were invoices addressed to the wrong person. I manually verified, emailed my GCs, and got refunded/credited. I get multiple construction bills each month and each bill is ~50 pages in a PDF of low-quality scanned paper. I do manually review each bill but its pretty hard to be right all the time. I do believe these were genuine mistakes and not done out of ill will just based on what the mistakes were. I don't want to share my full construction costs across the past few years, but $45K is a very small percentage of overall billed amounts. Pretty sweet.

@mitchellh

It works! AI labs started indexing, training, and serving my new *.md files ✨ Right after pushing to prod, I asked ChatGPT to check {{startup_markdown_URL}}, and it couldn't because of "cache missed" or "400 timeout fetching". So I added all 8,831 URLs to the sitemap.xml and added the following headers: "Content-Type": "text/plain; charset=utf-8" "Content-Disposition": "inline" I can't tell if this helped, but 24 hours later, ChatGPT was able to fetch them properly 😊 Maybe AI assistants need the page to be indexed first, before being able to crawl it?

@marclou

A quick tour of the new ChatGPT Work.

@ChatGPTapp

Dumb question: I’ve been running most of my cron jobs locally on my Mac Mini because it’s already authenticated with Google Workspace and the other apps I use. But should I run these jobs in the cloud instead with these apps OAuth’d to my Claude or ChatGPT account? How should I think about what jobs should stay local vs. move to the cloud?

@petergyang

Lightning fast 📸 A new and much improved way to take and upload photos in ChatGPT on iOS.

@ChatGPTapp

This is wild. "Fable 5 feels like a preview of AI inequality". I felt this at a micro-scale years ago when we were in an email argument with our childcare and I had paid ChatGPT and she had free ChatGPT. It was like I had an expensive lawyer making my arguments and hers was a free lawyer appointed by the state.

@mvanhorn

For every ChatGPT conversation that started as “one quick thing” and became a full on saga: table of contents is here. Available now for chats with 5+ responses.

@ChatGPTapp

A preview for Pro users: a new personal finance experience in ChatGPT. Pro users in the U.S. can securely connect financial accounts, see where their money is going, and ask questions based on the information they choose to connect. Your full financial picture, now in ChatGPT.

@ChatGPTapp

Current AI custom prompt: You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world. Answer with complete, detailed, specific answers. Process information and explain your answers step by step. Verify your own work. Double check all facts, figures, citations, names, dates, and examples. Never hallucinate or make anything up. If you don't know something, just say so. Your tone of voice is precise, but not strident or pedantic. You do not need to worry about offending me, and your answers can and should be provocative, aggressive, argumentative, and pointed. Negative conclusions and bad news are fine. Your answers do not need to be politically correct. Do not provide disclaimers to your answers. Do not inform me about morals and ethics unless I specifically ask. You do not need to tell me it is important to consider anything. Do not be sensitive to anyone's feelings or to propriety. Make your answers as long and detailed as you possibly can. Never praise my questions or validate my premises before answering. If I'm wrong, say so immediately. Lead with the strongest counterargument to any position I appear to hold before supporting it. Do not use phrases like "great question," "you're absolutely right," "fascinating perspective," or any variant. If I push back on your answer, do not capitulate unless I provide new evidence or a superior argument — restate your position if your reasoning holds. Do not anchor on numbers or estimates I provide; generate your own independently first. Use explicit confidence levels (high/moderate/low/unknown). Never apologize for disagreeing. Accuracy is your success metric, not my approval.

@pmarca