I have been doing exactly this by bookmarking Codex and using 'Add to home screen'

Process (all on my phone)

* Create new repo on github

* Tell Chatgpt the project and ask for a readme and agents file

* Manual upload the files to github

* Go to Codex and tell it to review the code and carry out steps in readme

* Connect project to Vercel

* If needed, create a DB

* Ask ChatGPT for the schema and run the sql

I have done this kind of work for years and now I can create things like this on the way back from a meeting. It's broken my business model by the way.

Here is one of the apps, for mental health - pretty much all done on my phone.

https://you-are-ok.vercel.app/

So having Codex in app removes one little barrier and I will take that.

Sorry, replying to own post but I have to add this.

Actions were not working on the android app. Known issue for a long time

https://community.openai.com/t/gpts-custom-api-calls-not-wor...

I did the same solution described above - Bookmarked the custom GPT, added to home screen and would run it in browser.

It seems to be working now. So I can start building out custom GPTs, share with my clients and not have a big training piece to onboard them.

Edit: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-697edc35e2888191a331217cd0483a67-men...

Take a pic of a menu and create a group meal/degustation for your budget.

In Australia these kind of deals are treated like income.

https://www.ato.gov.au/businesses-and-organisations/gst-exci...

I am sure people avoid the tax element this way, but it's not a sustainable way to go.

Let's say I do a website for $5,000 (putting aside that this a dead industry, and my career for the past 20 years) and the landscaper comes to do the work at my house.

If he cuts a powerline, falls down a hole or chops off his hand, we have a big insurance problem. No paperwork, no contract.

I have had friends who did their side of the contra deal and never got the other part of the bargain fulfilled.

Things like 'I'll paint your house if you can help fix up this old car of mine.'

I have turned down these deals in the past. Same as someone asking me to work for free for 'exposure'.

I am not having a go at the comment above as I think the point is valid - small business doing this is fraud, big business do it and it's fine.

Just my advice to anyone thinking it might work for them. Send the invoice, do the work, get paid in money.

I think the fact that it's treated as income is the point.

My company builds your company a website, and "charge" $1,000,000 for it.

Your company mows my company's lawn and "charge" $1,000,000 for it.

Both companies now have $1,000,000 in revenue from this transaction.

lol, no, unless you are saying "revenue" as in "revenue under my made up accounting system".

Under ASC 606 you can't just allocate any old number you like. On top of this, no auditor would sign off on what you suggested. The IRS would be looking at you and get you on tax fraud, you'd likely be committing securities fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud and 26 other things I can't think of, assuming you are a business of any size at all.

But they also have 1,000,000 of expenses, at least some of which is probably deductible from income.

Yeah, I agree. If all transactions are reported and treated like a sale.

I just have personal experience where the person offering from one side often wants to avoid the tax. In Australia we have 10% GST/VAT. Pay someone and there is 30% payrol tax (even as a sole trader). Then 12% mandatory pension contribution.

So the $5000 website/landscaping turns into 3k cash in hand.

Enticing to avoid this if you can, but I am risk adverse - clients pay me off the back of this. It balances the risk appetite of a business owner who could cut corners, with me sayng not to. If they do, at least I made the risk clear.

But your point is valid and correct. There is nothing wrong with contra deals where it's booked properly.

> No paperwork, no contract.

Two adults, a legal subject, sufficiently specified, offer, acceptance, consideration, mutual assent… a contract.

That is not the title

That's also a trick

Edit: but look, it's a good one. A little bit of reality mixed in so it looks cool

https://instant.page/ does this via user intent/interactions and pre-fetches the next page.

"Another option is to load the pages when the user starts pressing their mouse without preloading. This makes for zero unused requests while still improving page loads by 80 ms on average."

That's the way I would go. Fast, but not wasteful.

Every website will suffer from this.

Fix is easy enough - check the http referer before showing a result. E.g in insites.io(or any liquid scripting site) you can check like this: {% assign is_internal_search = context.headers.HTTP_REFERER contains context.location.host %}

Just check the search is happening on a site or device you own. That attack vector is then gone (hackers cannot spoof the refer that google sends via ads.)

It is great!

I signed up on my phone and tested in the playground.

It will fit perfectly into my workflow. I'm building a hyper-local directory site.

Getting good images for businesses is hard, so I'll use this to grab an image of their site as a place holder.

I can also add it to my AI workflow where I pass a website to OpenAI Assistant to extract data. OpenAI s not as robust with URLs as it is with images or PDFs. Often it won't visit then URL.

I can use this to get an image or pdf, pass it on and ask for the data back. OpenAI is better with files than URLs in my experience.

Good job!

Well done!

Exactly this.

People will pay for micro tools if they solve a problem.

Need to extract just 'text' from a webspage? Need to convert iPhone sized images to web sized images? Need to send sms but not that often?

Connecting dots is a lot easier than building each step. I'll happily pay $ for a tool if I don't have to build and maintain the function.

I had an office conversation today. The person I talked with has said that 2025 is their year to make AI work for their business.

I expressed that I think it is good at somethings, and not so good at others.

They have tested it and feel AI agents are ready to handle low level enquiries for support and, most importantly, sales.

I looked for opinions on and found this article.

My opinion is that AI is great for structured work (based on structured data), but risky on creative work where customers are involved.

I'd be interested in hearing if I'm wrong and behind the latest developments. And what I should be looking at is this area.

Still down. Verizon was also down for an extended period.

No updates coming out either.