Do you have a theory as to why Toonsmith got copied so fast? I created a couple of GPTs when they first came out (and talked about them publicly), but I haven't seen any copies of them yet. Maybe they just weren't useful at all, ha!
I actually have no clue. Maybe the right (wrong?) person saw it in my original post or it got crawled by a GPT-scraping bot in a batch separate from yours. Also, I might have submitted it to one directory back when they were emerging, which definitely makes it more likely to be scraped.
Daniel, your actual organic effort of bringing info to the masses is top drawer. Dang it, makes me definitely want to raise my game (not a bad thing, I know)... Hopefully you will get some organic readers from recommendations.
You should cover more in depth the GPT store - I'll be curious to see what you have to say. Not sure it's worth a full newsletter tho...
I will quote you to customers on the "endless pit of despair and misery" part. :) (so please don't edit that out) Right now I think the GPT store is in the same category as the "GPT Plugins" where we put in 2 months of dev time, did a reasonably expensive (to us) proof of concept to a potential customer, and then the GPTPlugins hype fizzled out like a hot air balloon and the customer did not want to invest in a GPT Plugin solution.
Like you, I don't have the highest hopes for the GPT Store. I cringe at all of the "GPT Store will mint millionaires and YOU'RE MISSING OUT" threads on Twitter/X. I think we'll see a few polished GPTs rise to the top - those with a company behind them that uses proprietary knowledge/data and "external actions" with API calls that perform some functionality.
The rest---i.e. simply "Custom Instructions" masquerading as a GPT---will be niche bots that'll drown in the avalanche of mediocrity. Personally, I find more value in being able to make a bunch of specialized GPTs for myself than in the store.
That's yet another reason I doubt I'll cover the GPT store separately. Unless I decide to make it into an essay about why it'll fail. We'll see.
I actually think it's very much along the lines of my "GPT Store will fail" angle. In my mind, I always completed "GPT Store will fail..." with "...to make you money."
I don't think the store as a place to go to find GPTs will fail. We might call it a "library" instead of a "store" and it will continue to be useful.
Do you have a theory as to why Toonsmith got copied so fast? I created a couple of GPTs when they first came out (and talked about them publicly), but I haven't seen any copies of them yet. Maybe they just weren't useful at all, ha!
I actually have no clue. Maybe the right (wrong?) person saw it in my original post or it got crawled by a GPT-scraping bot in a batch separate from yours. Also, I might have submitted it to one directory back when they were emerging, which definitely makes it more likely to be scraped.
Daniel, your actual organic effort of bringing info to the masses is top drawer. Dang it, makes me definitely want to raise my game (not a bad thing, I know)... Hopefully you will get some organic readers from recommendations.
You should cover more in depth the GPT store - I'll be curious to see what you have to say. Not sure it's worth a full newsletter tho...
I will quote you to customers on the "endless pit of despair and misery" part. :) (so please don't edit that out) Right now I think the GPT store is in the same category as the "GPT Plugins" where we put in 2 months of dev time, did a reasonably expensive (to us) proof of concept to a potential customer, and then the GPTPlugins hype fizzled out like a hot air balloon and the customer did not want to invest in a GPT Plugin solution.
Thanks Matt!
I actually did a deep-dive about GPTs back when they first launched (https://www.whytryai.com/p/build-gpts)
Like you, I don't have the highest hopes for the GPT Store. I cringe at all of the "GPT Store will mint millionaires and YOU'RE MISSING OUT" threads on Twitter/X. I think we'll see a few polished GPTs rise to the top - those with a company behind them that uses proprietary knowledge/data and "external actions" with API calls that perform some functionality.
The rest---i.e. simply "Custom Instructions" masquerading as a GPT---will be niche bots that'll drown in the avalanche of mediocrity. Personally, I find more value in being able to make a bunch of specialized GPTs for myself than in the store.
That's yet another reason I doubt I'll cover the GPT store separately. Unless I decide to make it into an essay about why it'll fail. We'll see.
> an essay about why it'll fail
About that... 😅. Stay tuned for Wednesday's post!
Damnit. The one time I get a vague idea for an actual essay, you beat me to it! Looking forward.
So it ended up being more thoughts on why GPTs are a bad business, instead of why the GPT Store is doomed to fail: https://www.ignorance.ai/p/gpts-wont-make-you-rich
But you should still write that essay!
Solid article!
I actually think it's very much along the lines of my "GPT Store will fail" angle. In my mind, I always completed "GPT Store will fail..." with "...to make you money."
I don't think the store as a place to go to find GPTs will fail. We might call it a "library" instead of a "store" and it will continue to be useful.
But no, it won't "mint millionaires."
Great issue! Thanks for the AI voices.
Thanks for chipping in with yours!
Ugh, actual humans?!?
I know. Humans suck!
Although there's a strong suspicion that "Andrew Smith Model BJJ-IV" is actually a Substack post-generation bot.