Videos made with OpenAI Dots

Install and demo of OpenDots as a free alternative to the OpenAI product, run on your own machine.

Hands-on impressions of living with a dot day to day, covering where it feels like a real assistant and where it still stumbles.

Safety checklist to run through before enabling a dot, covering permissions, connected accounts and spending limits.

Sam Witteveen picks out what builders should care about from DevDay, including dots and the agent APIs.

Developer warns about permissions and local access risks when installing and connecting a dot to your machine.

The maker of the open-dots repo demos a free, any-model alternative and its unlimited usage.

Turing Post tries handing a growing list of personal and work tasks to a dot to see where delegation breaks.

Eight creator workflows run by a dot, covering scripting, scheduling and repurposing content.

Short walkthrough of OpenDots as a free open-source dots alternative and what it can do.

Self-hosting guide for OpenDots, showing a local agent setup that avoids a monthly subscription.

Leon van Zyl shows how to set up a dot as a 24/7 personal assistant, including connections and scheduled tasks.

Professor Ryan Ahmed tests a dot on assorted tasks and summarises what it handled well.

Surveys free open-source clones that mimic dots at no monthly cost, with notes on what each one lacks.

Demo of ParadigmEve, a self-updating open-source agent pitched as a dots alternative.