Simon Willison finds ChatGPT Sites run on Cloudflare Workers and SQLite
The hosted apps support authentication, APIs, and instant publishing
ChatGPT Sites means ChatGPT in "Work" mode can build and deploy public websites running on Cloudflare Workers, including with persistence on top of SQLite (OpenAI do not make it easy to figure out that's how the platform works, though)
You should be using Sites in ChatGPT! Sites lets you go from an idea to a working, hosted website or app directly in ChatGPT. You can: - Build static sites or full-stack apps - Store persistent data + file uploads - Add authentication + control who has access - Connect APIs and other data sources - See built-in analytics - Publish instantly with a shareable URL - Keep iterating and redeploying from the same conversation Great for dashboards, internal tools, launch hubs, interactive reports, prototypes, calculators and more!
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Simon Willison finds ChatGPT Sites run on Cloudflare Workers and SQLite
The hosted apps support authentication, APIs, and instant publishing
ChatGPT Sites means ChatGPT in "Work" mode can build and deploy public websites running on Cloudflare Workers, including with persistence on top of SQLite (OpenAI do not make it easy to figure out that's how the platform works, though)
You should be using Sites in ChatGPT! Sites lets you go from an idea to a working, hosted website or app directly in ChatGPT. You can: - Build static sites or full-stack apps - Store persistent data + file uploads - Add authentication + control who has access - Connect APIs and other data sources - See built-in analytics - Publish instantly with a shareable URL - Keep iterating and redeploying from the same conversation Great for dashboards, internal tools, launch hubs, interactive reports, prototypes, calculators and more!
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1 post@simonw Sites also works in Codex mode, the only mode it doesn't work in is Chat. I'm going to make docs clearer on this: https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/sites?surface=app
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@simonw As someone building agent tools, persistence is what compounds.. Data survives redeploys. Custom domains work. Auth + R2 baked in No fake browser storage. Proper systems. Docs are still the only friction.