How the OpenAI team uses ChatGPT Sites daily

This transcript features a conversation between two OpenAI team members discussing the practical and creative applications of ChatGPT Sites, a feature that launched approximately two months prior to this Developer Day presentation. Kat showcases an incident command overview tool that allows product managers to monitor team progress on incidents in real-time by connecting to Slack, Notion, and Calendar with role-based data filtering—enabling each team member to see only data relevant to their team membership. The tool displays incident timelines, assigns responsibility, and links to runbooks without requiring complex API key configurations.

Beyond business applications, Kat demonstrates a music discovery site that aggregates songs listened to by her family members and surfaces popular Reddit playlists. She describes automating a weekly Monday morning playlist generation using Spotify as a connector, allowing real-time music discovery integrated into her work interface.

The conversation then pivots to more creative uses of Sites. One participant describes creating the largest user-generated dungeon exploration game, where players can build custom rooms using a 'Dungeon Site' skill that leverages Claude's Astra model to generate environments—from moon surfaces to volcanoes to Stranger Things-themed rooms. They discuss distributing skills rather than downloadable plugins, enabling others to create and contribute game rooms.

Another participant shares a real-time sketching app where drawing on canvas triggers Claude to generate corresponding imagery—if you draw a hill, a snail appears; if you draw a face, a hot air balloon appears. They emphasize how faster model inference (8x speed improvement) enables prolonged creative immersion and flow state, though noting it comes at 6x cost.

The discussion covers Sites as infrastructure, explaining that it handles deployment and builds integration with Claude, eliminating manual DevOps work. They also announce support for hosting MCP plugins through Sites. The conversation addresses analytics limitations, with the speaker preferring organic community discovery through Twitter hashtags and mentions rather than built-in metrics.

Finally, they discuss the 'awesomesites' community gallery showcasing user-created sites including bus route maps, piano applications, simulations, and Minecraft clones. The speakers emphasize how Sites democratizes software creation and enables people to express creativity previously constrained by technical barriers.