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Featured GPTs: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

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Custom GPTs only, and the link it earns points at OpenAI

featuredgpts.com
Featured GPTs homepage
Eligibility

Who Featured GPTs accepts

You need
A published custom GPT in the GPT store
You'll be rejected if
The URL field only takes a chat.openai.com/g/ address, so a product that is not a custom GPT has nothing to put in the one required field.
AI tools
What you actually get
A place in a hand-curated shortlist of custom GPTs, organised by category and by audience, reviewed by one person. Listings link out with no rel at all, so they follow, but they point at chat.openai.com/g/... rather than at your own domain: the link value lands on OpenAI.

How to submit to Featured GPTs

  1. Fill three fields
    The GPT's chat.openai.com/g/ URL, a sentence on how it helps someone reach a goal, and optionally a demo video or a shared chat. No account.
  2. Wait for the curator
    They say every submission is reviewed by hand against their criteria, and the whole site is built and curated by one person.

Featured GPTs requirements

GPT URL
A chat.openai.com/g/ address
One sentence
What the GPT helps somebody achieve
Demo
A video or a shared chat, optional

Gotchas

The link goes to OpenAI, not to you. Every listing points at chat.openai.com, so this is worth doing for the audience and not for your own domain.
Only custom GPTs are accepted. The URL field is scoped to chat.openai.com/g/ and there is no second lane for anything else.
It is one person curating a top-one-percent list, so a submission is a suggestion rather than a queue position, and most will not be taken.
A shared chat counts as a demo, which is a cheaper way to show it working than recording a video.

Let your agent submit to Featured GPTs

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Featured GPTs playbook and gets the brief for this exact form, with the values already taken from your submission pack instead of placeholders you fill in by hand.

What it does for this platform
Checks your product against the 2 Featured GPTs rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 3 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Types it into Featured GPTs in your own browser, and stops for you when the form wants a sign-in.
Records what it sent, so the dashboard can answer "did I ever submit to Featured GPTs?".
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Featured GPTs FAQ

How long does Featured GPTs approval take?
Featured GPTs does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to Featured GPTs?
Submitting to Featured GPTs is free.
Does Featured GPTs give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on Featured GPTs carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 16.
Does Featured GPTs require a backlink to your site?
No, Featured GPTs does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from Featured GPTs?
The URL field only takes a chat.openai.com/g/ address, so a product that is not a custom GPT has nothing to put in the one required field.