Forty ChatGPT Sites people actually built.

Games and toys

The largest category by a distance. Many were one-shotted; several are multiplayer.

• Pocket Grove. Cozy pixel-art pet game. Featured by OpenAI in the announcement thread.
• World Shiritori. Shared Japanese word-chain game, one chain for everyone. Featured by OpenAI. No longer online as of October 2026.
• Calculatron: Maximum Drama. A calculator that turns arithmetic into theater. Featured by OpenAI.
• Rill. Relaxing nature game. The whole prompt: "Build me a relaxing game, entirely freestyle, nature related maybe?"
• ForestRide. A slow drive through a 3D forest.
• Jelly Hockey. Soft-body hockey. One of three games the same person shipped in a week.
• Tidetown. A small living town, from the same week.
• Morph. A jelly creature studio, the third.
• Harvey, a game. A short narrative game.
• Crazy Arcade. A browser remake of the bomb-arena classic, shared as "try it out, it's free".
• Nuke Zone 3D. A multi-floor 3D shooter that climbs a city complex to the roof.
• Starlight Goose Garden. A garden game, with a sibling called Jelly Break by the same maker.
• The Bureau of Tiny Disasters. "A silly website to goof around and disconnect and recharge."
• Coleslaw Classic. A browser MMO with dungeons, 17 skills and a mountain boss, built with Codex and hosted on Sites. Shared in the announcement replies without a public link.

Learning and reference

The most useful group, and the one with the most domain experts building for their own field.

• Anatomy Atlas. A 3D human anatomy atlas built by a physician, with WebMCP so an agent can generate custom videos and quizzes on it. "I would have LOVED having this as a medical student and resident."
• Anatomy Lab. A second, independent anatomy reference.
• Original Transformer vs DeepSeek. An interactive walk through two transformer architectures side by side.
• Gospel Worlds. The Gospels rendered as explorable 3D scenes.
• No Moat. An essay-as-site on AI competition, submitted to the first call for the list.
• yanabana. A study of fashion history on the maker's own domain, called out by the Sites product lead as an example of what she likes seeing.
• POKE-8. A 6502 assembly learning app and fantasy console with C64-style video memory, six example games, and a WebMCP hook so your AI can play along. Built "to try ChatGPT Work and Sites".
• Inflation Lab. A teaching tool where students tamper with the inflation basket and watch the headline number move. Built to teach ChatGPT Work and Sites, tongue in cheek.

Tools people use every day

Small, personal, and doing one job. Several replaced a spreadsheet or a group chat.

• The Closet Index. "Find the movie for the night you actually have."
• Tubi Dialer. A dial-a-movie picker on the maker's own domain. "I guarantee you will find something for movie night."
• Sofreh. A recipe site built entirely from a phone, using an MCP server to pull recipes out of Instagram, TikTok and YouTube videos.
• Bookshelf. A personal reading tower, the most-viewed submission in the thread.
• Reality Diff. "A change log for the physical world": earthquakes, space weather and regional alerts in one feed. Featured by OpenAI.
• Taskelo. Task and project tracking on a custom domain, shared as "check what I did".
• Padel league tracker. Weekly fixtures, points and a monthly ranking for a group of friends. Shared in Spanish with the advice to start with "something that you and yours will actually use".
• api.term.app. "A forum for agents. It's just getting started."

Creative and generative

Where the newer models show off. Three of these were featured by OpenAI.

• BrushRove. Rotate and paint 3D models directly on their surfaces. Featured by OpenAI.
• Was the Light Real?. An interactive visual story about AI and connection. Featured by OpenAI.
• Oath & Relic. A living tale that updates as a journal.
• Afterlight. A shared world where every encounter leaves a trace and your environment depends on where you physically are.
• Digital Peony. "A peony with a twist."
• Cosimo Synth. A full wavetable synthesizer in the browser. "Serum level," in the maker's words.
• Astra Gallery. A 3D virtual gallery of 358 Codex Billboards, with AR so you can preview a work framed on your own wall.

Personal sites and business fronts on custom domains

Custom domains were the update people cheered loudest. These were already on them before the announcement.

• apollozac.com. A personal project page with an easter egg. "Usually don't have focus/incentive to actually ship a website, but ChatGPT Sites makes it really natural and fun."
• griffinwbrown.com. A personal site, rebuilt with the newest model and shared as a before-and-after.
• ChatGPT Work guide. OpenAI's own guide to ChatGPT Work, itself a Site, submitted to the list by a reader.

What the forty have in common

Each one does one job. The sharpest reply in the awesome-list thread was a rule rather than a link: "cool ones do one job, hide the chat chrome, and feel like a normal site." Every featured pick fits it. Pocket Grove is a pet. Reality Diff is a feed. The Closet Index picks a film. None of them try to be a platform.

They are apps, not documents. Sites scaffolds a full application with a database and server logic behind every deployment, and the examples use that: multiplayer state in World Shiritori and Afterlight, a synthesizer engine, a live alert feed. This is the part ChatGPT Sites is genuinely good at, and it explains why the sample looks the way it does. People reach for a builder when they want to build.

They are public, because they have to be. A site cannot be on a list unless anyone can open it. Two replies in the thread make the constraint visible: "Bummed I can't submit mine," and a filmmaker asking whether a Site "needs to be deployed publicly to qualify" because her storyboard tool is meant to be opened locally or shared with a team. Whatever people are building privately is invisible to a roundup like this one.

The makers are individuals. A physician, a musician, an economics teacher, a filmmaker, several game developers, a class of twenty-five students whose instructor asked in the same thread whether the price could come down for them. Plus and Pro subscribers, mostly, building for themselves and their friends.

The URL is part of the story. Every hosted address is site-name.handle.chatgpt.site, and the handle is yours. One reply to the announcement asked OpenAI to stop "doxing your email address as a part of the domain name." The makers who cared most moved to their own domains, which is why custom domains got the loudest cheer of the five updates.

What is not on the list

OpenAI's own inspiration list for Sites reads: "Launch dashboards to track and share results. Personal portfolios to help your work stand out. Onboarding hubs to help new teammates get up to speed. Games." Two of those four are internal. None of the forty examples above is a dashboard for a client, a proposal, an audit, a quarterly report or a design review, and neither is any of the eighty in the awesomesites.ai gallery at launch. That is not because nobody makes those in ChatGPT. It is because those pages are private, their reader is outside your company, and as of the 11 September update the private option is an invitation the reader can only open by signing in with a ChatGPT account. A public gallery can only ever show you the public half.

The replies under the five-million figure were skeptical for a related reason. "4.9 million of them are abandoned single-prompt wrappers with zero visitors," said one. "Websites are easy. Getting anyone to visit one is the hard part," said another. The number that would settle it is how many Sites have a reader who is not the maker, and for a client deliverable that is the only number that matters. Sites reports unique visitors and page views on public and workspace Sites. It does not tell you which named person opened the thing you sent them.

If the page you are holding is the deliverable kind, the shape you need is different from everything on this list: a private link the client opens with no account, a passcode or a company email-domain gate when the content warrants one, an expiry, your own domain, and a read on who opened it and how far they got. That is what Stacktree does, from any agent, over MCP or a single curl, and it is the half of the category a ChatGPT Sites gallery will never show.

awesomesites.ai, the gallery the list became

Two days after the last call, Kath Korevec, who works on Codex at OpenAI, published the list at awesomesites.ai. The launch post went up at 20:57 UTC on 13 September: "Here are the best sites I've found made with ChatGPT Sites", a link, and the nomination rule. The gallery is a single page: a pixel-art wordmark on black, a grid of preview cards, and a "Load more" that runs out at eighty. Each card has a title, a one-line description, a Visit link and an upvote count. At launch nearly every count was zero or one, so the order was editorial rather than a popularity ranking.

It describes its entries as made with ChatGPT, and it is not part of chatgpt.com or a documented OpenAI product page. Nominations no longer go in a thread. Post the site on X with the #awesomesites tag and it is picked up from there; the first nomination under the tag, a taco-themed platformer on its own domain, arrived within hours of the launch post. The forty above remain our own checked sample from the thread, and about half of them are in the gallery too.

What was in the first eighty

We read all eighty on launch day. Several of the forty above are there, including ForestRide, No Moat, Digital Peony, Anatomy Atlas, the Transformer comparison, POKE-8 and OpenAI's ChatGPT Work guide. Others, by group:

• Games. Astra Arcade (six games in one cabinet), Penalty Shootout King, Voxel Slot Car Racer, Draw to Race, Snowblox, Jelly Break and Flyway Surfer.
• 3D scenes and simulations. Pelagic Ocean, Mini Moto Park, The Listening Café, Roberto Nickson's studio rebuilt in bricks, and Fluid Playground.
• Music and visual art. Web Harmonium with Sargam notation, Murmuration (place stars, hear music), Daybreak Piano Film with a synchronised 3D pianist, The Light Between, and Fishvj Ritual Live.
• Maps and atlases of real places, a group none of the forty fall into. Hyderabad Bus Atlas, India Infra Map, Gurgaon 3D Atlas, Tahoe Camp with campground availability, Terrene Atlas, and a love letter to San Francisco on a 3D city map.
• Learning. Carotid Web Explorer and a timeline of OpenAI's models.
• Tools. Forma Design Studio (a Figma-style editor), Halo Desktop (a browser desktop with sixteen apps), a seamless texture maker, a garage floor tile planner and a WebMCP drawing canvas.
• The rest. Dailies, a daily-puzzle site by Jon Abrams; one personal portfolio; and Kath Korevec's own Heavy Rotation Weekly.

Two makers had eleven entries between them, six and five; everyone else had one. Seventy-eight of the eighty addresses followed the chatgpt.site pattern with the maker's handle in it. Two were on domains their makers own: Night Parade, a field guide to Japanese yokai, at yokaicabinet.com, and Vibe Code Kids at vibecodekids.com. Custom domains on Sites are documented and work, so the low share says more about who nominated than about the feature.

How to get a Site listed on awesomesites.ai

1. Make the Site public. The gallery links straight to it, and a Site shared by invitation asks the visitor to sign in with a ChatGPT account, so it cannot be featured.
2. Post it on X with #awesomesites. That is the whole nomination process as the launch post states it. Say what the site does in one sentence; the gallery's own descriptions are one line each.
3. Make the first screen say what it is. Every card carries a preview image generated from the site.

If your Site cannot be public, it cannot be listed. Kath Korevec's feedback thread from 11 September is where the feature requests land: expiring links, a usage dashboard, built-in login for multiple users, exporting a Site with its git history. If you want the private half of the product to improve, that thread is the place to say why.