Sites in ChatGPT
Ranked 7 of 14 AI app builders by recommenders
Recommended for turning quick app and site ideas into working prototypes within minutes or an hour.
Recommended for turning quick app and site ideas into working prototypes within minutes or an hour.
21 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 17
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 81%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 17 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 4.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Quick working prototypes, fast
“really underrated feature IMO. Any time I get a quick app idea I just hand it off to Sites and usually get a working prototype within the hour.”
Comment from 2 Oct 2026 in “Sites in ChatGPT” “A fairly painless approach for hosting a quick prototype.”
Comment from 2 Oct 2026 in “Sites in ChatGPT” “it one-shotted the entire website in 30 mins”
Comment from 3 Oct 2026 in “Sites in ChatGPT” - Comment from 3 Oct 2026 in “Sites in ChatGPT”
Fits into team workflows
“Sites has been one of the most valuable ships for us internally outside of general model releases imo.”
Comment from 2 Oct 2026 in “Sites in ChatGPT” “I'll sometimes use Sites to mockup something and then I'll download and pass it onto another agent”
Comment from 2 Oct 2026 in “Sites in ChatGPT” “Sites is so good that it’s changed my workflow”
Comment from 2 Oct 2026 in “Sites in ChatGPT” More robust than Claude Artifacts
“ChatGPT Sites being generally more robust and feature-complete than Claude Artifacts”
Comment from 2 Oct 2026 in “Sites in ChatGPT” “This seems to close a gap that both Claude and chatgpt had.”
Comment from 2 Oct 2026 in “Sites in ChatGPT” Good for simple sites
“Simple sites like portfolios for example are perfect for this job.”
Comment from 2 Oct 2026 in “Sites in ChatGPT” “A few prompts and I was able to build a much better offline site.”
Comment from 2 Oct 2026 in “Sites in ChatGPT”
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| Sites in ChatGPTThis page | 17 | 4 | 81% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
22 of the 24 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Sites need to be pushed much harder, because nobody in my org even knew the feature exists!”
“out came a working product”
“it one-shotted the entire website in 30 mins”
“very counterintuitive and boring to interact with”
“This means that, even though it an early access, you are not locked in.”
“Simple sites like portfolios for example are perfect for this job.”
“Sites has been one of the most valuable ships for us internally outside of general model releases imo.”
“Very polished. ... it's a well-executed product.”
“it created the site using the provided HTML code unadulterated”
“I'll sometimes use Sites to mockup something and then I'll download and pass it onto another agent”
“Sites is so good that it’s changed my workflow”
“A few prompts and I was able to build a much better offline site.”
“It has that Potemkin village quality, much like AI apps, code, and answers.”
“ChatGPT Sites being generally more robust and feature-complete than Claude Artifacts”
“They'd better be proactive with checking for abusive users”
“Looks good. Like most ChatGPT things, though, it will probably take good prompting and iteration”
“A fairly painless approach for hosting a quick prototype.”
“This actually looks like it has meaningful potential, and given how easily they could train it to connect to a whole bunch of off-the-shelf APIs”
“really underrated feature IMO. Any time I get a quick app idea I just hand it off to Sites and usually get a working prototype within the hour.”
“I dont know why its so slow and overall terrible as compared to Claude artifacts”
“Very good experience so far”
“This seems to close a gap that both Claude and chatgpt had.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.