ChatGPT Just Became an App Store

There’s a quiet moment right before a revolution begins. This week, that moment came from Sam Altman standing on a stage.

He didn’t shout. He didn’t drop fireworks. He just said: “Developers can now build native apps inside ChatGPT.”

And that changes everything.

Not just for OpenAI. Not just for coders.

For you — the creative, the entrepreneur, the one who’s been staring at your screen thinking, what’s next?

Because this isn’t just another “update.” This is the App Store moment of AI.

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Let’s rewind.

When Apple launched the iPhone App Store in 2008, a guy made millions with an app that simulated drinking a beer.

You tilted your phone — the “beer” drained — and somehow people paid $1 for it.

Absurd? Yes. Genius? Also yes.

Now, OpenAI has recreated that moment, but 10x bigger. Because ChatGPT has 800 million monthly users. That’s more than double what the iPhone had at launch.

And starting now, anyone can build apps — or as OpenAI calls them, GPTs — right inside ChatGPT. They live in a marketplace. You can sell them. You can brand them. You can connect them to APIs.

You can build your own business inside ChatGPT itself.

So what’s actually new?

Let’s break it down:

• Native apps inside ChatGPT. These aren’t plug-ins anymore. They’re full, interactive apps that live within the chat.

• Monetization. There’s an App Store coming, and developers will be able to charge users directly.

• SDK access. OpenAI dropped the MCP SDK (Model Context Protocol) — a tool that lets you hook ChatGPT up to external data and services.

• Voice, vision, and memory built in. Apps can now use multimodal features — talk, see, and remember context.

In short: ChatGPT just became an operating system.

Not a metaphorical one. A literal one.

You’ll open ChatGPT to shop, to plan, to learn, to build, to play. You won’t need to leave.

OpenAI wants to be your digital world.

Here’s why this matters for you

Every time a new platform launches, there’s a land rush.

• When YouTube started, random vloggers became millionaires.

• When TikTok hit, unknown dancers became global brands.

• When the iPhone App Store launched, indie developers retired early.

Now it’s happening again. Only this time, the playing field is smaller.

There’s no huge technical barrier. You don’t need to code in C++ or Swift. You just need an idea, and a few hours with ChatGPT itself.

That’s the meta part, you can use ChatGPT to build ChatGPT apps.

In the video below, the creator literally does it from scratch, using OpenAI’s own tools and builds a Stock Market Tracker App that lives inside ChatGPT.

He types:

And a live, interactive widget appears. Pulling real-time data, updating on command.

That’s not just neat. That’s the first domino of a new digital economy.

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The Opportunity (read this twice)

When the App Store first launched, people built apps that made fart noises. And made millions.

You think that’s a joke, but it’s a lesson in timing.

When a platform is new, being first matters more than being perfect.

OpenAI’s app ecosystem hasn’t even launched publicly yet. It’s still a few months away.

Which means — right now — is your window to build.

Even if you don’t code. Even if you’ve never made software.

Because here’s what the creator in the video showed: You can copy a pre-made prompt, paste it into ChatGPT, and it will generate your app for you — end-to-end.

It walks you through installing the free tools (Visual Studio Code, the SDK, and Ngrok), setting up a local server, and linking your app to ChatGPT.

At the end? You literally test it live, inside ChatGPT itself.

No app store submission. No bureaucracy. No waiting.

Just you, your idea, and 800 million potential users.

Here’s my take

This is the moment I’ve been waiting for.

For the past two years, we’ve all been swimming in AI hype — LLMs, agents, copilots — but none of it had a clear monetization path for regular creators.

Until now.

ChatGPT apps fix the biggest problem in AI adoption: accessibility.

Because now, if you can describe what you want to build, you can build it.

Let that sink in.

You don’t need to raise funding. You don’t need a dev team. You don’t need permission.

You just need curiosity and a weekend.

That’s the future of entrepreneurship — idea velocity over capital.

And this shift doesn’t just open the door to developers. It blows the door off the hinges for educators, marketers, coaches, and small businesses.

• A therapist can create a journaling companion app.

• A teacher can build a custom study tutor.

• A real estate agent can build an AI that analyzes local listings.

All inside ChatGPT. All directly accessible by their audience.

So where do you start?

You start small. You start today. And you start inside ChatGPT.

Go to Settings → Apps and Connectors → Developer Mode.

Hit “Create.”

Give your app a name. Paste your local server URL (the video shows how to set that up).

And suddenly, you’re not a “user” anymore. You’re a platform builder.

And if you want to get ahead of the curve, follow the tutorial in the video below — because by the time the store opens, the early builders will already own the top rankings.

That’s not hype. That’s history repeating itself.

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Why you should care: This isn’t a “how-to” video, it’s a roadmap for the next AI gold rush. The creator shows step-by-step how to build a working ChatGPT app, with zero prior coding and explains why early adopters will dominate the App Store once it launches.

If you’ve ever thought, “I missed the boat on crypto, on YouTube, on apps,” — this is your next boat.

Don’t just watch it. Build along with it.

Because in a few months, people will be bragging about how they were there at the start and you can be one of them.

So here’s the challenge for this week: Open ChatGPT. Turn on Developer Mode. And build your first tiny app, no matter how simple.

It doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to exist.

The future favors the builders. And for once, the tools are in your hands.

See you in the App Store.

Thanks for reading!

Best,

Miroslav from The Zilahut

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