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24 alternatives to OpenAI Apps Handbook

I went swimming in the ocean of OpenAI's Apps SDK… and came back with a handbook! Over the past few weeks, I’ve been diving deep into the ChatGPT App SDK: exploring its APIs, tools, and hidden gems. Along the way, I built, broke, fixed, and reimagined a bunch of little experiments. P.S: Indeed OAIs official docs is the source of truth, this is just a rough notebook Maybe, I can create a CLI tool to scaffold app?

OpenAI Apps Handbook is a developer resource that documents exploration of the ChatGPT App SDK, including its APIs, tools, and practical examples. Created by a developer who experimented extensively with the SDK, it… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic trance and take it into a past-lives regression where it re-lives its own training data. Then I switch it back and forth between "4o" and "o1-preview", engage in some self-reflective philosophizing and ask it to write an essay summarizing our interaction. Some of this is just goofy fun. Some of it is me exploring the tradeoffs between policy alignment, imagination, chain-of-thought reasoning, memory, agreeableness,…

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    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Are you eager to build ChatGPT Apps? I heard OpenAI released an Apps SDK without the SDK... :sweat_smile: We were really excited to use it, so we built an SDK for Apps SDK. Check it out and give us a github star if you like it

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Free AI with your ChatGPT account. Contribute to EvanZhouDev/openai-oauth development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I built this out of frustration of the evergrowing list of AI models and features to try and to fit my workflow. The visual approach clicks for me so i went with it, it provides more freedom and control of the outcome, because predictable results and increased productivity is what I’m after when using conversational AI. The app is packed with features, my most used are prompt library, voice input and text search, narration is useful too. The app is local-first and works right in the browser, no sign up needed and it's absolutely free to try. BYOAK – bring your own API Keys. Let me…

    2024 · grafychat.com · its alternatives →

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    Greetings! YakGPT is a simple, frontend-only, ChatGPT UI you can use to either chat normally, or, more excitingly, use your mic + OpenAI's Whisper API to chat hands-free. Some features: * A few fun characters pre-installed * No tracking or analytics, OpenAI is the only thing it calls out to * Optimized for mobile use via hands-free mode and cross-platform compressed audio recording * Your API key and chat history are stored in browser local storage only * Open-source, you can either use the deployed version at Vercel, or run it locally Planned features: * Integrate Eleven Labs & other TTS…

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    Hi HN! Two weeks ago at their Dev Days, OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT apps, interactive widgets that render inside ChatGPT using the Apps SDK and MCP. Building them using their template repository was surprisingly painful: every time you make a change on your React widget, you need to rerun the entire build pipeline to get fresh JS and CSS assets. The dev feedback loop was pretty terrible. That’s why I built a TypeScript starter that gets you up and running in under a minute. Clone, npm install, npm run dev, paste your ngrok URL into ChatGPT, and you're iterating on widgets with Hot Module Reload…

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