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Codex Built 8 Features Overnight: My 5-Step PR Loop
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This week, I woke up to 8 new features moving toward release in Super Easy Timer, including stopwatch, clock, pomodoro, and autocomplete. One Codex thread ran for 12 hours and 19 minutes. Part of that happened while I slept. Apple recently featured my app on the homepage, so downloads are spiking (270+ downloads/day). If you show up and make something useful, Apple might feature your app. Back to my new Codex workflow: The setup is one Codex thread that manages all the others. I call it Chief of Staff ("Chief" for short). It runs a simple PR loop:
My favorite part: Chief is a bug inbox. I dump a bug in, it writes a markdown plan into the repo, and a worker branches off main to fix it. I wrote up the full setup in 5 steps: Read the article: Codex Built 8 Features Overnight: My 5-Step PR Loop (about a 4-minute read) What have you pushed forward with a manager thread? Hit reply. Talk soon, P.S. Working on an iOS/macOS app? I do 1:1 App Strategy Sessions. Book a time and let's talk about yours. |
Super Easy Apps Weekly - Paul Solt
Join 6,727+ iOS/macOS developers using Codex and Claude to build and ship apps. Expect practical tutorials, repeatable workflows, and hard-earned lessons from 7 shipped apps and time at Apple, Microsoft, and GoPro.
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