OpenAI’s Assistants API shuts down on August 26, 2026. Learn what to inventory, how to preserve state and how to cut over without breaking the product.
Ideahunters is a crowdsourcing platform where brands post a challenge and a community submits ideas against a deadline. The original site ran on Drupal 7 — end-of-life, unsupported, and increasingly a liability — with over a decade of challenges, discussions and member accounts in it. The platform was rebuilt on Drupal 11 and the legacy content migrated across: 426 pieces of content and 921 user accounts, anonymized on the way in.
OpenAI's Responses API guidance, tools, pricing, and Assistants sunset date make older internal AI helpers a migration issue with state, retrieval, and cost decisions.
