Let me rephrase: The problem is that I can’t “rent”. Not sell. It should work like in a partnership: OpenAI enters with the platform and the engine, and, we enter with our knowledge in our specialties, and a customer-base.
It’s quite unfortunate, because this GPT platform has everything to sell a lot in in the enterprise world - at least for ERP customers on mid-size to large-size implementations.
Well said. The point I’ve been trying to make over and over.
Trust me, I and everybody else reading this, gets it. The GPT architecture sort of revolutionized RAG, or rather, democratized it to the point where anybody could upload a few files, write a prompt, and Bam! – you’re in business.
Great idea. Who could be against that?
What I do not get is why you fail to even entertain the idea of writing your own interface? I mean, if this idea has as much potential as you believe, seems to me it would be worth the effort to hire the talent to put it together and make it happen. Not only would you now have 100% control, but you could use any model available (open or closed source), monetize it any way you want – and not be held captive to any feature changes or deprecations OpenAI may choose to arbitrarily make.
This makes perfectly good sense to me and you and probably most developers in the forum. But, if OpenAI has a different “monetization” plan, it ain’t gonna happen.
There is a guy on this developer forum who is offering to fund new, innovative ideas. Maybe he’ll be interested in helping you get it jump-started. Anyone has any business idea?
Thanks, and I appreciate it.
Again, there are tons of low-code/no-code models to work with and leverage APIs, and I get that.
I think you didn’t get this idea of being “captive.”
The idea is to partner with OpenAI and distribute their GPTs across my customer base.
Why OpenAI, and why not Google, NVIDIA, Facebook, AWS, OCI?
Their time will come, but the disruption of GPTs, the ease of integrating with enterprise systems (I integrate ERP software), and the results are unbeatable for this moment. And, to me, that’s crucial, not only starting first but providing such technologies to my customers first. Then, with their foundation built, they can switch (if that’s the case) to the model/platform they want.
Also, I see my points are completely achievable - add access roles and security to a GPT for enterprises - and build a partnership ecosystem - not for “anybody” but for integrators, ISVs, and consulting firms to embody their knowledge integrated into a GPT and distribute it. That’s the difference. A distribution channel for enterprise users - whether people in the field looking for an asset location or the financial officer who needs to understand his company’s sales volume. There are so many use cases. I’ve been creating and baking these ideas using my demo systems and building a lot of attention in the industry - so far, nobody has come close to what I’m delivering, and, to me, it’s crucial this timing.
Now, if I can’t protect my IP with a GPT, I can sell my knowledge to my customers, show them how to build it, and transfer that knowledge. From a valuation perspective, I’d charge twice the funding available for that guy to build a business idea for a 3-day workshop for my clients, but my goal is to build MRR - for my company, as well as OpenAI.
There is precedent. I, myself, created and marketed “Infobases” to enterprise customers using Folio Views technology way, way back in the early 1990s. This was the ground-breaking text retrieval technology back in the day. I had complete control over the production and marketing, and paid Folio a quarterly license fee based upon my sales.
As for GPTs and what I like to call “Knowledge Bases”, I am right there with you. In fact, I think a lot of us here are the same. Because I am a developer, I have positioned myself to be able to take advantage of GPTs – or do my own thing – depending upon which works best. Like you, I’m betting on OpenAI.
But, who really knows at this point?
Good luck!
I’m a developer, too, and I see we’re in the same boat. Again, this is just a matter of organization, gatekeeping, and community building.
Now, I bet with you that other big players will achieve the same capabilities of a GPT, and they can add those features and focus on the enterprise channels - perhaps Microsoft? That’s the reason I’ll not invest resources to write anything from scratch. This will happen whether we like it or not, and I’m sure our customers can jump to their solutions, and we’ll not recover the investment for developing our solutions.
This is an environment that is too volatile for now. We don’t even know whether GPTs will stay. They can phase this out in the blinking of an eye - and that’s why we don’t “own” the GPTs like our friend @anon22939549 is saying all the time.
But I can tell you it’s AMAZING seeing the GPTs in action. I built an invoice processor and integrated it with Oracle JD Edwards. In one of my tests, I uploaded a .PNG file of an invoice, and I didn’t notice the invoice had a calculation error in the total. The GPT was smart enough to fix the API response error but also provided a note saying the values didn’t match. It costs, on average, $53 for a medium to large size company to investigate and fix errors in invoices with such errors - per invoice. Imagine the volume, quantity of errors, and unbalanced batches this solution can avoid. Amazing!!
In response to this point, it should be noted that OpenAI is a platform upon which devepers build services. Since you have announced and launched a GPT store so we can resell services. The relationship is then between developer and our clients. How we provide access to our clients is none of your business as long as it adheres with your Ts&Cs. OpenAI does not own everything.
On billing and revenue, where is this located? I have had GPTs in the store since day one. No metrics or reports. Can’t even find my earnings page.
On buying more chips, it’s clear the contributor lacks deep insights on the unit economics of Cloud + AI. The more we do the cheaper it gets. It could technically be free were it not for growth.
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What are you talking about?
@kevinpiac Hey bro! As far as we know, Stripe is not supported in many developers’ regions, can you integrate PayPal into Kobble?
We can’t wait to use it. Looking forward to your reply.
Kind of how your data is OpenAI’s data–not yours.
If you want your data to be yours. Build your own damn LLM.
So if they’re not my GPTS why do you call them my GPTs?
The obvious answer is that OpenAI wants all your data and all your IP and they refuse to regard themselves as a level playing field for fair marketplace activity.
Really there should be legislation to treat them as a utility. They’ve already pilfered so much content that was published on the web with no intention of having it serve their proprietary purposes the way they’ve used it. But now, having already accomplished their aim with it, they want more, without sharing the opportunity to create new saleable IP with their product. Sounds like they learned well from the Gates’ and Zucks of the world. Thanks SAMA. Hey, guess what. We see what you did, bud.
You seem kinda angry. Maybe take a break for a while?
Is that a threat? Or just a non sequitur?
I’m not sure how it could be construed as a threat. 
Really just an observation.
No one here is your enemy so just relax a bit, maybe?
So non sequitur.
But since you’re responding, let’s be clear. When I create a “myGPT” [sic] and I allow OpenAI to “learn” from my custom knowledge (which may or may not be copyrighted) and from the user inputs, I get nothing for their assimilation of that data. But if I want to charge users for their use of my initellectual work product, suddenly the “myGPT” is Sam’s GPT and gimme that money son it ain’t yours, you in my house? Do I have that about right?
Read the terms of service. You can use the services or not at your discretion.
do you have any tutorial, how to add my GPT wiht this website? . also yea, I woul d like to use gumroad to sell products. and give access buyers, so they can learn and use my GPT .
And, we are still waiting for the Q1 monetization criteria.