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  "path": "/t/early-chatgpt-user-using-ai-in-real-small-businesses-willing-to-test-openai-tools/1380595#post_1",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-09T23:50:50.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I want to share this sincerely as an early and loyal ChatGPT user.\n\nI 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.\n\nToday 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.\n\nThat 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.\n\nI 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.\n\nI would genuinely love to be considered for testing new OpenAI tools, ChatGPT features, Codex features, agents, workflows, business tools, or experimental products.\n\nI 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.\n\nI just hope early and loyal users who truly helped push this technology forward are not completely forgotten.",
  "title": "Early ChatGPT user using AI in real small businesses — willing to test OpenAI tools"
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