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17 products you can build with ChatGPT

ChatGPT is on fire. It took it only 5 days to reach 1 million users and it shows no signs of slowing down.

I did some diggin' around Twitter and Reddit to find ideas for viable products you can build using ChatGPT and found 15 good ones:

1. Suggest viable product features

Take a look at the following prompt:

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ChatGPT gave a pretty good answer to it:

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The idea: ChatGPT doesn't currently have access to the internet. But you do. You could make a tool that would scrape all bad reviews for a competitor, feed them to ChatGPT and ask it to create a product description/brainstorm product features based off those weaknesses.

2. Ad builder for creators

Take a look at this prompt:

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The answer:

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Another answer:

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The idea: One of the main problems when you're an creator is finding a natural insertion point in your organic text/video for a sponsor. You could build a tool that would analyze a text and prompt ChatGPT to provide some natural insertion points for a sponsor you specify.

3. An advanced rewriter

ChatGPT is pretty amazing at rewriting:

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Try doing that with a conventional rewriter.

The idea: You can make a rewriter tool with advanced options like:

  • Make the text sound more formal/informal
  • Make the text sound funnier/wittier
  • Shorten/make the text longer while keeping the same points
  • Provide it a bunch of bullets and let it write the text using a specific style

4. Create personalized plans (for weight loss, etc.)

This tweet inspired me for this idea:

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The person then continued providing input to ChatGPT, which ultimately came up with a custom food plan:

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Wow.

The idea: You can do this with almost every niche, not just weight loss. For example, you could make a tool called "What's the perfect business for you?" which will ask people a few questions about themselves, their expertise and then come up with personalized business ideas which suit their character

5. Advanced keyword research tool

Let's say you have a blog about pet food and want to get more search traffic.

ChatGPT could help you brainstorm some keywords to target:

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and also suggest some article ideas:

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The idea: Most conventional keyword research tools can't do this. With a few prompts, you could create a tool where you ask a person for their "core keyword" and brainstorm hundreds of good SEO-friendly titles. You could also add some interactivity so they can save their titles.

6. Slogan creator

ChatGPT is pretty creative. Especially when it comes to smaller pieces of text.

One person asked ChatGPT to create a new slogan for McDonalds and this is what he got:

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The idea: You could replace "McDonalds" with any company name (or company description) and you could also specify the tone of the slogan. If you do it enough you can even build a database of funny slogan names for major companies.

7. Answer tests & quizzes

ChatGPT can answer multiple-choice questions pretty well:

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The idea: You could create an universal answer bot where you ask it a few multiple-choice questions and record the answer. A user could feed a list of questions of a website with questions and then you would input that into ChatGPT and output the answer.

8. Realistic social media post creator

ChatGPT can take many personas and do, say, Facebook posts:

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The idea: After you prompt ChatGPT to write something, you could add something like "create 5 versions". When a person chooses a version, you could prompt ChatGPT to "create 5 more versions like X". You could also instruct ChatGPT to take a persona/character so the posts appear more genuine.

9. Personalized children's stories creator

There's an interesting post on Reddit I saw called ChatGPT revolutioned my kids bedtime.

Basically, the mom asked the daughter to give her a topic for the children's story she wanted. The mom then generated the story with GPT-3 which was a game changer.

The idea: Games engage children and ChatGPT is...kinda like a game. They can tell you what they want (a story about elves and a princess) and voila! You could actually train ChatGPT to be a game, which leads me to the next section...

10. Coding helper

ChatGPT can literally write an entire app.

It can also iterate things in case it gets something wrong:

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Not only that, but it can debug a code you specify:

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...and compile code in another language.

*The idea: There's a potential SaaS hiding behind all of these ideas. You could integrate everything ChatGPT does in a VS Code (or any other popular IDE).

11. Interactive text games

I've seen a lot of examples of people doing something along these lines:

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Another example:

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The idea: ChatGPT can be quite versatile with text games. The only limit right now is...your imagination. You could be the relay of ChatGPT, prompting it with various text games people would pay.

12. Creative humo

ChatGPT isn't the best at inventing jokes. But it can be quite good with a good prompt:

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The idea: You could create a 9gag AI alternative with ChatGPT using creative prompts like these. The fact you get text means it can be indexed by search engines, giving it long-term search traffic.

13. Educational/interactive tutoring website

ChatGPT can be pretty good at explaining things:

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The idea: You can create pretty good educational website around a topic by prompting ChatGPT to explain something "like I'm 5-year-old". You could also have multiple explanations for something for people who don't understand the initial explanation.

14. Script creator

ChatGPT can create a script for a movie:

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15. Customer support SaaS

Some businesses already started doing this:

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The idea: ChatGPT is highly interactive, meaning you can train it to be a highly interactive chatbot and do a lot of what human support is doing. This will be possible to do after ChatGPT has an option to save a chat session (which they announced as a feature several days ago).

16. Generate DALL-E 2 prompts

Yes, AI can be used as an input to another AI.

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This is more of a meta example, but you get the point.

The idea: To create a good image with DALL-E 2 (and other AI tools), it helps to be highly specific. ChatGPT comes to the rescue if you can't! In the future I wouldn't be surprised if people use ChatGPT as input to other tools.

17. AI replies to social media posts

Some people have already started using ChatGPT for Twitter replies

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I mean, sure...this is not the best example, but you get the point. Be more specific with your ChatGPT prompts and you could make realistic Twitter replies.

The idea: There are many social media tools that promise to grow your followers by being the first to reply to someone's Tweet/Facebook post, and so on. This is taking things to a whole new level where the bot can reply to you. To take this further, you could customize the replies, give ChatGPT examples of a few good replies to that specific person and so on.

The future is exciting..and scary.

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    Seeing a lot of Twitter "AI-like" replies to a lot of posts already.

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    Love these suggestions.

    If anyone is looking for hints on how to get started with GPT, I put together a thread on how I launched an MVP in just a couple of hours. These were the results:

    • 500+ visitors (ongoing)
    • 5 or so free backlinks (good for SEO)
    • A handful of people reaching out + AI Clout 😎

    This community also seems to offer a good course: https://buildspace.so/p/build-ai-writing-assistant-gpt3

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      +1 for the buildspace course.

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    So interested to see where ChatGPT goes. Don't love the social media posting/replying use of it already. At what point does social media become the text version of getting google home and alexa to talk at each other

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    Thanks for this incredible article. I am trying to make use of GPT3 for summarising non-fiction books (similar to blinkist or headway). Here’s my side-project https://quickreadai.streamlit.app

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      did your side project progress? I am looking for an AI app that I can load my non-fiction books into and store either locally or in cloud. As a chat gpt plus subscriber just want to have control of what data I feed it.

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      how did you use the gpt3 api, did they expose it yet or just reversed engineered its apis? i tried and failed on 'Too many requests'

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        The API is open to use for all. I am using da-vinci-03 which came out recently.

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        Openai api is open to use. You used to get free credits when you sign up, not sure if that's still the case.

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          You still get 18 USD worth of credits.

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    Personally, I can't wait until there is an open source equivalent in this space. ChatGPT has way to many protections build in now.

    Example, I was looking up the dog bite scale system, chatgpt basically said nope, we wont talk about bad things only rainbows and Disney rated G unicorns.

    Anywho, if you have an interesting chatgpt workflow, my little project https://copycatai.com (early alpha) allows node code up prompt chains, web scraping, and any api. DMs open on twitter, just hit me up.

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    This tool allows you to display ChatGPT response alongside Search Engine (Google,bing,...) results: shorturl.at/eqZ78
    Check out this video: https://www.tiktok.com/@ai_life26/video/7179865803003579674

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    So much value there! Thanks

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    That's quite a lot of ideas! Good post.

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    Good info...I really appreciate your post.👌

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    Nice. Regarding Nr. 16 - interesting idea. :-)
    I'll experiment a bit with TextUnbox VoiceDraw, since it's already using DALL.E in the background.
    https://textunbox.app/#demo

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    These are such awesome suggestions! Another idea is to ask ChatGPT to rewrite a song lyrics to another theme, like "rewrite Bohehmian Rapsody to be about a man living in new york city"

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    I've developed an essay generator tool that works really well. Feel free to check it out, it's available for free
    http://essay.bar

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    What a fantastic tool, go and use GPT3, It will blow your mind completely.

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    This post is amazing. I have admit I had great fun reading ChatGPT's replies. It seem to have a UK dark humour undertone in its funny replies.

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    Woah, Chat GPT is doing some crazy stuff.

    Chat GPT to the moon!

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    Thanks for the post, great ideas shared, many more to be explored with this new ground-breaking tool!

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      I honestly didn't know about this service, and I can see its very real and important use cases. However, I'm a bit puzzled by the fact that they only report the accuracy of their detection algorithm, while not even mentioning its true and false positive rate (at least, I couldn't find them anywhere in their website)...

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    I really appreciate your post , that's nice

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    Great post. Great eye-opener. Great ideas. Seems I will gravitate to ChatGPT to benefit from the ideas. Thanks for sharing.

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    We created 10 blog articles in 10 minutes. Now let us see the SEO value in three months.

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      The tool I'm building should speed that up even more - https://www.keywrds.ai

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    Wow thanks for sharing those. Its amazing how much AI can do nowadays. What industry will ChatGPT disrupt first? Would love your thoughts on this.

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    It's hard to imagine how you looked at that example about Germany and NordVPN and thought, "SLAM DUNK PRODUCT PLACEMENT" instead of "Jesus, what an incredibly insensitive and inane example that makes AI look like an absolute child."

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    Great article! With really good product ideas.

    Last couple of days I have started to use ChatGPT in my daily work. Its crazy to think about if this will be on of the tools I use daily as an Product Manager. Its like having your personal assistant, or an advisor to give their opinion when a decision needs to be made.

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    I tried creating twitter posts and replies using chatgpt and it was impeccable.

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    On the creative ones, kids stories, jokes, etc. I was wondering how high is the risk of plagiarism. ChatGPT still pulls from what it's learned, and tends to repeat itself sometimes.

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      I spent part of an afternoon creating a kids story with ChatGPT a couple of weeks ago. I tried searching for several differeent pieces of text (expressions, character descriptions, etc.) to see if I could find any hint of them online. I didn't find anything. It's pretty incredible.

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      I don't think there is an issue of plagiarism I have seen it create unique content each time. Also, we do give prompts and those tend to be unique i guess

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    I use ChatGPT for generating tweets every day

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      I started creating tweets with this tool

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    So good the ideas on this post! Keep the good work @zerotousers

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    When will the api be available to use?

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    You can also go meta and build services on top of GPT-3 for different platforms. For example I did one for WhatsApp :)

    https://www.gpthotline.com/

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      I love this. I wonder if there might be a ChatGPT usecase for kids learning. Not every family can have Alexa in their homes but a variant of it powered by ChatGPT seems like a possibility.

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    Is it out of beta yet? Or would we be scraping the site to get the responses?

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    Cool! Also it can be added in like majority of products out there and improve it significantly!

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    Online check writter is a best website to know anything about Technology.Uts provide lot of solutions in different ways

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    I think that's awesome. I really like it and it makes me happy for all my lives. I just have to thank you with all my heart for the support and learning

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    Nice ! Also excited by GPT-4, anyone knows exactly what it will entail and how we can get a head start ?

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    I have ai powered car shopping experience micro saas idea where ChatGPT would kill it!

    All backed with decade long struggle and personal experience

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        for instance vehicle descriptions. where seller enters keywords and vehicle description is ai generated.
        this would be simplest and so much needed.

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    There are many interesting use cases for it. I built https://books-ai.app to use GPT-3 to recommend books based on a prompt. However, the GPT-3 fees are higher than the little bit of money I make from affiliate sales 🤣

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      Caching doesn't help?

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        Yea that's an idea I had too. But I don't have the amount of traffic that there are really many duplicate searches coming in.

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          Oh, I see. How much does it cost per request currently btw?

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    Awesome ideas, do you happen to have the source for number 14 by any chance?

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      What do you mean by source? Just go to https://chat.openai.com/ and type the prompt to get a similar response.

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        Well, I'm writing something and referencing your post and some of the references you've used within it too, so I was curious of the person who'd posted the original screenshot otherwise it looks like I'm just stealing their prompt idea

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    Thanks for the comprehensive post, Darko.

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