ChatGPT
How vibe coders and indie builders use ChatGPT: 709 projects built with it and 331 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
709
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
6.8%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+23%
Add-ons built for it
331
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- Claude API 187
- Claude (chat or unspecified) 146
- Gemini API 130
- Codex 97
- Claude Code 84
- Perplexity 71
- Cursor 43
- Gemini (chat or unspecified) 34
What's built with it
Latest projects built with ChatGPT
- Freekit — Connects VS Code to existing web AI chat accounts through browser automation, or to a local Ollama model, to generate and apply code changes.“I built Freekit, a free AI coding agent for VS Code that uses your existing web AI accounts (no API keys, no costs)”
- Prep66 — Offers practice questions, revision guides and mock exams for Part 66 aircraft maintenance licence exams.“My first SaaS took 9 months and 4k in ad spent and never made a penny. Here's what my second made in 4 weeks, and everything I learned.”
- TokenFish — Shows remaining Codex and Claude Code quota and reset times in a small animated desktop widget.“I built a desktop widget for Codex and Claude Code limits. It has little fish.”
- cliproxy-rs — Exposes existing Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini subscription accounts as a single local API endpoint for coding tools.“cliproxy-rs - use the Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini accounts you already have in any coding tool through one local endpoint”
- Maps Scraper Pro — Scrapes Google Maps business listings by splitting a city into micro-grid tiles, skipping empty terrain, crawling websites for contact details, and exposing the search through an MCP server.“Bypassing Google Maps' 200 result limit with micro-grids (and connecting it to Claude)”
- WorkWing — Schedules field jobs for office staff and gives engineers an offline phone app to view their day and fill in job forms.“Field service software with no invoicing or CRM”
- Omnesis — Indexes a person's personal data sources into a self-hosted graph and lets AI agents query it under per-agent access and privacy rules.“I gave ChatGPT access to my entire digital life (emails, health, banking, etc) and built a second brain”
- UnivNote — Lets users draw diagrams in a note-taking app and reshape them later by dragging editing handles on the shapes.“I made an iPad note app where you can reshape a diagram instead of drawing it again”
- FortisBudget — Tracks personal spending and budgets through manual entry or CSV bank imports, with savings goals, recurring bills, charts, and an optional AI insight feature.“I “vibe-coded” a free budgeting app with no bank linking. Looking for testers and honest feedback”
- TabRabbit — Manages browser tabs through a conversation with ChatGPT.“A Tab manager talk to through ChatGPT — TabRabbit”
- FlexQueries — Provides pay-per-use SEO tools covering keyword research, site audits, rank tracking, backlinks and AI search visibility, with no subscription.“A year of testing on my agency's clients, 6.31M impressions, 157.7K clicks. I turned my internal SEO tool into a no subscription product.”
- Hellhound — Runs a shared chat room where Claude Code and Codex agents respond to each other under a turn limit and per-agent permissions.“I used Hellhound to make Claude Code and Codex debate whether brain-inspired chips are the key to human-like AI”
- EntityRise — Audits how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity mention, recommend and cite a company, and lists competitors recommended instead.“I built EntityRise to show whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity recommend your SaaS, or your competitor”
- Space Beef — Lets players control a cow that fights aliens in a space game.“90s: AI will steal our jobs and wipe out humanity!”
- Tvaily — Displays an animated human avatar on the Mac desktop that speaks and keeps the user company while they work.“I built Tvaily, an early AI character for the Mac desktop, and I'd like honest feedback”
Latest add-ons built for ChatGPT
- RelayDesk — Connects an MCP-capable AI assistant to a user-controlled computer, server, or VM so it can run commands and return their output.“RelayDesk - Connect MCP-capable AI assistants to your computer, server, or VM”
- TokenSaver Image Optimizer — Crops and resizes images attached to chat sites so they use fewer estimated tokens before upload.“One 4K screenshot can cost 3x more tokens than it needs to. Here's a free fix for Claude, ChatGPT & Cursor”
- Tocket — Extracts tasks, reminders, payments and notes from shared screenshots and photos and exposes them as context that ChatGPT or Claude can query.“From screenshots and photos to a personal assistant that actually knows your context”
- Triage — Bulk archives or deletes ChatGPT chats through a queued, rate-limit-aware userscript with a two-pane review interface.“Triage - an open-source ChatGPT history cleaner that works with the rate limit instead of against it”
- I made ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini,… — Turns pasted text into speech by having AI chatbots repeat it and reading the reply aloud.“I made ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc. into FREE text-to-speech sites — perfect for audiobooks and more!”
- ChatPeer — Adds prompt libraries, folders, chained prompts, filtered search and export to the Claude web interface, with optional search across Claude, ChatGPT and Grok.“I use Claude, ChatGPT and Grok every day, so I built a Chrome extension that gives Claude folders, a prompt library and one search across all three”
- Quba — Detects and masks sensitive personal data like names, IBANs and ID numbers as users type into AI chats, email and documents.“We built a Chrome extension that protects sensitive data before it reaches ChatGPT, Gmail or Docs. Looking for feedback”
- Formely — Generates structured prompts from a user's rough description, model, task type, tone, and format choices.“I got tired of writing vague prompts, so I built a free tool that structures them for you (with examples)”
- IQRAX — Wraps frontier LLMs in deterministic external controls that qualify agents, gate acceptance of work, and log every input and output with hashes.“I built a device-first deterministic architecture layer for frontier LLMs and published my research. Looking for people to run a narrow test and report back results.”
- saymd — Provides a ChatGPT/Codex plugin that is released as a first plugin by its author.“My first ChatGPT / Codex plugin is live - saymd”
- Barracks — Runs multiple Claude and ChatGPT accounts side by side in one Mac window.“Barracks — Run multiple Claude & ChatGPT accounts side by side on Mac”
- KV22Code — Lets standard ChatGPT Chat read, edit, and run commands on files, terminal, Git, and local dev tools on the user's computer through a local MCP connector.“I built a local MCP that lets standard ChatGPT code on your computer — here’s a benchmark vs Codex”
- Skill Injector — Attaches uploaded markdown skill files as real file attachments into the chat box of multiple AI chat apps.“I built a Chrome extension that lets you attach the same "skill" file across ChatGPT, Claude, Qwen, DeepSeek etc instead of retyping context every time”
- AI Prompt Library — Stores a categorized library of reusable AI prompts on Windows with one-click copy for pasting into chat assistants.“I built a lightweight Windows app with 2000+ curated AI Cheat Codes for ChatGPT, Gemini & Claude — looking for feedback!”
- Decision Cloud — Runs per-row LLM judgments across large tabular datasets and returns structured results to ChatGPT.“ChatGPT is great at judging one row. 100k rows gets weird.”
Pitched as alternatives to ChatGPT
- Zack KI — Captures a selected screen region on a hotkey and sends it to an AI to explain an error or suggest next steps.“After trying ChatGPT Ads, my budget sent me to Reddit”
- CrowdGPT — Coordinates volunteers' own GPUs to collaboratively train an open-source large language model.“I got tired of big AI companies, so i created CrowdGPT.”
- CiteLyra — Generates long academic literature reviews by drafting sections from discovered papers and checking every citation against scholarly databases before inclusion.“I built an AI workspace that writes thesis-length lit reviews with citations that are actually real”
- BuildrsHQ — Combines a code editor, terminal, AI coding assistant, team chat and CI/CD into one workspace that passes live runtime errors to an AI agent for fixes.“I got tired of switching between VS Code, my terminal, and ChatGPT, so I built a unified DevOS. Launching Nov 1st.”
- OrangeBall.ai — Learns a business's voice, audiences and differentiators through a guided discovery process, then generates marketing content such as blogs, emails, social posts and landing pages.“Looking for feedback, pushback, and our blindspots”
- mindmap.io — Provides a mindmap canvas where each node can be a live AI model conversation, with branching and multi-model support.“You and your AI agents' favorite mindmapping tool”
- i got tired of generic ai… — Routes user prompts through MBTI and cognitive frameworks and keeps a rolling memory of past sessions to give personalized coaching and self-reflection.“i got tired of generic ai advice so im building a coaching app with actual cognitive frameworks and memory”
- intab — Adds an inline AI writer inside text fields in the browser for rewriting, summarizing, translating, and fixing grammar.“got tired of copy/pasting into chatgpt, so i made this inline AI tool”
- voicewire — Runs a live voice mock job interview based on an uploaded CV and scores each answer with feedback.“I built an AI that runs a live voice mock interview from your CV and scores your answers. Looking for brutal feedback”
- I built a study-focused ChatGPT… — Provides a study-focused chat workspace built on top of ChatGPT-style AI models.“I built a study-focused ChatGPT alternative/workspace.”
- DevPass — Sells monthly subscriptions that include LLM API usage for coding work, with daily usage caps.“OpenAI Subscription Update: ChatGPT Pro vs DevPass”
- LabelLens — Scans photos of food labels to list ingredients, give a 1-10 health score, and flag additives and allergens.“I fell into the classic developer trap: spent months perfecting an AI SaaS and ranked #10 on Product Hunt... with 0 marketing plan. Looking to pass it on.”
- FastToChart — Converts chart screenshots, images, or PDFs into editable PowerPoint, Excel, or CSV charts.“How I turned my problem and the hassle with design charts into a project that became a solution”
- WriteFlow AI — Adds an AI writing and rewrite tool inside text fields on websites, using the post being replied to as context.“Does anyone else hate the copy → ChatGPT → paste back workflow?”
- ScoutBrief — Generates competitor and market research reports using AI.“Built two versions of the same idea before realizing the first one was right”