**Create a **📝Custom GPT is the process of designing a tailored version of 📝ChatGPT, allowing users to specify unique instructions, knowledge bases, and capabilities for specialized tasks. 📝OpenAI enables its paid users—including Plus, Team, and Enterprise subscribers—to develop custom GPTs through an intuitive builder interface. Users can configure features such as conversation starters, web browsing, image generation, and third-party API integrations. While OpenAI announced a forthcoming revenue-sharing program for GPT creators to monetize their work through the GPT Store, as of early 2024, this initiative remained unimplemented, causing frustration among developers who anticipated compensation based on user engagement. Documentation and community discussions frequently reference the program's promised launch and subsequent delays.
I’ve created numerous custom GPT agents, both for my own workflow and for others, and I continue to be impressed by how simple OpenAI has made the building process. For example, I built 📝Prime Prompter (agent) to help refine my prompts, 📝Prime Self (agent) to act as my spiritual companion, and 📝F-Boy (agent) as a character for a friend’s stage show.
While I enjoy using these agents and sharing them with friends, I often run into frustrating limits—most notably, only paid ChatGPT users can access them, and the promised creator incentives have yet to materialize. These constraints have dampened my motivation to keep building on their platform and pushed me to focus on developing our own agent system within 📝MythOS, where access and rewards can be more open and aligned with creators’ interests.
Guide
To create your own Custom GPT, follow the steps below—from OpenAI:
- Go to chatgpt.com/gpts/editor or chatgpt.com/gpts.
- Click the + Create button in the top right.
- In the Create tab, tell the GPT Builder what you want (for example, “Make a creative who helps generate visuals”).
- Go to the Configure tab to name your GPT, write a description, and choose features like web browsing or image generation.
- Add any special instructions, files, or conversation starters if you want.
- When you’re ready, click Publish to make your GPT available to others.