OpenAI Dots

Peter Yang gives a product manager's tour of dots with practical setup tips and where it fits in a workflow.

Candid breakdown of what dots actually do versus the launch hype, aimed at people deciding whether to pay for it.

Elixir-based open-source personal agent that stays on, acts proactively and keeps no sessions, offered as a free alternative to Dots with browser and computer control.

19-minute tutorial on setting up and getting more out of a ChatGPT dot, from first configuration to more advanced workflows.

Pat Simmons shows an easy path to a first working agent with a dot, step by step with no prior setup.

Explores what a model with its own cloud computer can do, including coding, file work and browsing, with live demos.

Long-running VS Code virtual-pet project that added Codachi-style monster avatar designs for ChatGPT dots and Codex; shared on HN as 'ChatGPT Dot Avatars'.

Zinho Automates shows workflows a dot can run on its own and explains why he rates it as a strong agent.

How I AI podcast demos DevDay products including dots and spaces, with hands-on workflows.

Anil Matcha shipped an MIT-style open-source dots workspace within hours of the launch, with browser, terminal and file computer use, personal-app connectors and support for any LLM. It lets people run the same pattern on their own infrastructure.

Creator runs a batch of everyday tasks through a dot and reports which succeeded, which failed and what to avoid.

AICodeKing tests Tencent's open-source Octop agent as a possible replacement for Dots and Muse.

Riley Brown called his ChatGPT dot for 45 minutes with his phone in his pocket and cleared the day's email and Slack tasks by voice. He used it as a hands-free chief of staff and is documenting the lessons for a video.

Antonio Leiva explains in Spanish how he used his always-on dot since the Friday before launch, connecting email and calendar and letting it propose work unprompted. A practical walkthrough of a real setup.

OpenAI researcher Noam Brown tested dots over a weekend and had his dot hunt down subscriptions to cancel. It then connected to a customer service channel and handled an entire texting conversation on his behalf.

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.

Vox (@Voxyz_ai) switched to dots as his primary agent, praising the iMessage-style interface and desktop voice conversation that feels like talking to a person, and details the bugs he hit. A hands-on usage report.

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

Dan Shipper relays OpenAI's Space, a Drive-like area in ChatGPT where people and dots share files, plus native docs, sheets and slides apps.

Wraps an existing OpenAI Dot behind an OpenAI- and Claude-compatible API so other apps and clients can call it like a normal model endpoint.

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