Hooray, I’m a Verified Builder Now

OpenAI, here I come. I finally got verified as a builder, and my first GPT is officially public. With the GPT store coming out one of these days, I’m thrilled to see what will happen. Looks like this could become another income stream.

Building, conceptualized image (made with DALL-E 3)

What is my first public GPT you ask?

It’s FreudGPT!

I’ve renamed it to FREUD Dream Interpreter though, as using “GPT” at the end of it is apparently discouraged by the OpenAI guidelines. Go give it a try if you had a dream recently and you want to know what it means.

By the way, read OpenAI’s usage policies and brand guidelines.

And here is the general introduction to what’s to expect.

While trying to get verified I’ve run into one particular technical problem — getting OpenAI to approve my DNS record.

After several attempts to verify my website by adding a DNS txt entry it finally worked. Initially I’d press the “verify” button and got an error message, but then I deleted the domain and re-added it, added the txt again and it worked.

How To Become A Verified Builder On OpenAI

First things first, verification isn’t a big deal if you want to use your real name. It’ll get populated from your billing details and you’re good to go.

In my case, I wanted to get my website verified.

Here’s a step by step:

1. Obviously have an account with OpenAI. This is a no-brainer.
2. Go to ChatGPT, then to Settings, and then to “Builder Profile”.
3. Add a new domain, click “Submit”.
4. You’ll get a text string, copy it.
5. Go to your domain host and add a new DNS txt record. Depending on the host this will require an individual approach. I’m using Wordpress and in that case you go to Settings, scroll down to “Change Website Address”, click on the “…” next to your domain, and then “Manage DNS”. From there you add a txt entry, pasting your OpenAI code.
6. Go back to ChatGPT Settings and click verify. If it doesn’t work straightaway, try again later, and if it doesn’t work on the next day, I’d suggest you delete and re-add your domain.

That’s it! I hope it’ll work for you.

As of my future plans: of course I have more GPTs up my sleeve.

And I recommend you try it too. GPTs are free to build, so it’s a win-only situation