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Early ChatGPT user using AI in real small businesses — willing to test OpenAI tools

OpenAI Developer Community May 9, 2026
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I want to share this sincerely as an early and loyal ChatGPT user. I was one of the people who used ChatGPT from the early days — testing it constantly, pushing it in real situations, showing other people what AI could do, and naturally promoting it because I genuinely believed in it. Today I use ChatGPT and other AI tools not just for fun, but for real business work: construction, removals, client communication, websites, marketing, quotations, documents, automation, CRM systems, AI agents, workflows, and practical small-business operations. That is why I wanted to say this honestly: sometimes it feels like early users helped test, promote, stress-test, and spread this technology — but now many of us feel forgotten. I understand OpenAI is a huge company now. I understand that not everyone can get access to every feature, beta, or experimental tool. But users like me are not just casual users. We are real-world testers. We use these tools daily, find practical use cases, discover limitations, and can give feedback from real business environments. I would genuinely love to be considered for testing new OpenAI tools, ChatGPT features, Codex features, agents, workflows, business tools, or experimental products. I am not writing this as an attack or complaint. I am writing because I still believe in OpenAI and ChatGPT. It changed how I work, think, build, learn, and run my business. I just hope early and loyal users who truly helped push this technology forward are not completely forgotten.

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