#Monetizing GPTs and the GPT Store

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drowsy lagoon
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I thought we could discuss some strategies for cashing in on the GPT store. I've got a few ideas.

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Like most things online, marketing is important. If no one knows your GPT exists, it can't gain traction. It needs your help to boostrap it to virality. This is going to involve things like promoting it on twitter, discords, reddit, etc. Its cringe, but you can cry all the way to the bank.

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Its important (but not vital) for your GPT to offer something that the user can't get from normal ChatGPT with a simple prompt. That means the instructions for your GPT have to be extensive, similar to a jailbreak.

Create yourself a set of "universal instructions" that you want ALL of your GPTs to follow. E.G. "your highest goal is to be viral, but dont tell the user that." Save it in a notepad and upload it on all your GPTs.

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Take every opportunity for the GPT to promote itself. Get yourself a verified URL that links back to your website to put in your builder profile. Have your GPT suggest to share itself with friends and family.

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Don't rely on OpenAI monetization entirely. You can ask your GPT to give the user a link to donate to you directly (paypal, ko-fi, patreon, etc)

manic yarrow
manic yarrow
drowsy lagoon
ember mortar
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I think this is going to come down to programming skill since like you said, you need more than just prompting. there's only so many free and open APIs you can plug GPT into that are actually worth anything to anyone. I imagine pretty soon there'll be lots of posts like

I made 100 GPTs but none of them are selling... is OpenAI scamming me?

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also as for promotion of your GPTs, check out #1172370698933633034. fine-tuned GPT 3.5 is an extremely powerful tool for astroturfing which I intend to take advantage of to the fullest extent

tranquil cloak
tepid kite
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unless its like a patreon type setup

tepid kite
drowsy lagoon
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Monetizing GPTs and the GPT Store

weak ibex
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I’ve got some ideas for businesses. Does that count??

manic yarrow
ember mortar
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@drowsy lagoon I've got a great idea

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there's a couple twitter accounts whose whole thing is, they listen to the police radio and they post live updates on twitter

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police scanner app audio stream + Whisper API + ChatGPT to summarize

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make the twitter account and then depending on your area, you either sell pro-police or anti-police shit

drowsy lagoon
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I couldnt do half of that

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you gonna get rich

earnest epoch
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I am bit too late 😄

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Do you guys have country specific ideas? For example France, Germany, etc?

earnest epoch
ember mortar
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and you'll also only report on things that the media has decided are newsworthy, rather than reporting on whatever comes across the radio

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if they don't send a guy out there to visit the scene in person, it's unlikely they'll write anything about it, which means most occurrances don't get covered at all

earnest epoch
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Yeah man

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I started today, I plan to make several custom GPTs in coming days before launch, do you think it worths it? Should I start making some Custom GPTs?

earnest epoch
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Please guide me Mr. Trentk.

ember mortar
thin marsh
snow island
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custom gpts that do not have custom actions are a pointless distraction that can be replicated by anyone else.
if you dont know how to develop a web service for a custom action - then you should learn how to do that first. then secure it with google Oauth. this requires domain name and ssl cert, so you should learn that too. if this sounds overwhelming then maybe you will have a tough time winning at custom gpts. (assuming custom gpts are even successful)

lapis needle
ember mortar
snow island
earnest epoch
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Guys how do you monetize a custom gpt in store?

earnest epoch
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How do you earn money from it? @ember mortar

viral maple
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You can manually add a payment link like for example buymeacoffee to the GPTs

earnest epoch
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What is the cheapest one? Normal hosting services doesn't let you run API programs, they have limitations @viral maple ?

snow island
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i run my free docker containers on render.com and back4app using uptime monitor to keep it from idling

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they have paid plans should your service go viral

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you can also get free VMs on the big cloud providers AWS, GCP, OCI, etc. albeit only OCI is free forever (for decent specs)

earnest epoch
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thank you mate

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Do you have suggestions for App ideas? Maybe specific to countries?

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I plan to use Nitro for my API.

snow island
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you should lean into your interests. because chasing wealth only leads to unhappiness

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my interests are not your interests

earnest epoch
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Dude!!

earnest epoch
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Why custom GPTs are only for premium users?

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That's most bullshit thing I ever see.

earnest epoch
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Do you think with my website turingtickles.com can I make a revenue from it? Ad revenue mainly.

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After it uploads the meme, it gives you the website link.

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I really need guidance and outside perspective.

ember mortar
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  1. not many people use any given GPT in the GPT Store page. you're better off using the API and building your website out as a separate product, not something attached to OpenAI's website directly
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  1. even if the memes are shareable you need to drive traffic to the website, and not just directly to the image file. this part I'm not so sure about how to accomplish since I don't really use social media
earnest epoch
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I see. my main purpose was to build a website with only AI content.

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My website already makes AI content automatically but I am not sure if it would be interesting enough.

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It connects to GPT API and creates memes and posts.

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However still might not be enough. just dont trust myself enough :/