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8 min readApr 29, 2025

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Everyone’s playing with ChatGPT… you should build with it

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We need to stop fetishizing AI and start verticalizing.

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Image Generation API made that clearer than ever.

Most people missed it. Too busy using AI to spin out spaghetti-eating videos and meme generators, bottom-feeding what AI can do.

Waiting for someone else to show them what’s possible.

If you’re reading this, you can be that someone!

Hijack one of the most powerful image generators ever built and wrap a product around it. You can ship something this weekend and build a product people will actually pay for.

What is the ChatGPT Image Generation API?

When you hear that “ChatGPT can make images now”, they’re talking about a new model behind the scenes called “gpt-image-1” (formerly DALL·E 3).

This lets you type a description and get back a high-quality image with style, accuracy, and real-world text rendering.

OpenAI has made this model available as an API, which means:

You can generate images inside your own product, without sending users to

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