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Codex feels like a small team now
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Codex feels like a small team now. It codes, does market research, reviews my emails, and helps me think. This week, the desktop app got thread management updates, and Codex on iPhone got a ton of bug fixes. Here are my Top 3 Articles for Codex: These articles cover how I use Codex for app development and for marketing my apps.
You don't need to open Xcode if you use my AppCreator skill to build iOS and macOS apps. 5 Links and Resources
Talk soon, Paul Solt P.S. Try my new timer app UI. The new UI is experimental, but what I've dreamed about for years. I use timers to help me focus (since I'm easily distracted). My workflow: Set a 25-minute timer.
The rule is: Don't do anything else until the timer goes off. (No email, no social, stay in chair ... do the work).
Download the new Super Easy Timer beta on TestFlight
P.P.S. Give your app some time after changing titles or keywords. A few weeks after picking new keywords, my app is finally starting to rank higher. App Store Optimization (ASO) is slow for organic traffic. My takeaway: Don't rely only on Apple Search. After this UI update, I will be publishing YouTube videos to promote the app (YouTube was the biggest driver of my app sales in the past). My app was downloaded more the other day, which boosted my app rank today. |
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Join 5,901+ iOS/macOS developers using Codex and agents 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.
Hey Reader, Every indie dev has an app like this: Made some money and then died... Mine made $5K since 2018. Eight years of deprecated code ... I never had energy to touch it. It wasn't worth weeks of cleanup for an app making a few dollars per month. THEN I gave it to Codex. The cleanup was done in 30 minutes. Now I'm shipping the redesign I'd been stuck on for years. Watch: I Gave Codex My Dead Mac App Learn Why did I let it die About the 5-star "complaint" How Codex broke two App Store...
Hey Reader, OpenAI launched the Codex app, a great way to continue controlling your agents when you're on the go. I've been using Remodex for weeks, which has been awesome. Being able to steer research while walking in the woods is super cool. I can get steps in while doing light work. Watch: Codex on iPhone shipped — here's what works There are some gotchas with the new Codex/ChatGPT app today; by early next week, most of these issues should be resolved. Here are 5 workarounds if you get...
Hey Reader, I flew out to San Francisco to visit OpenAI. It was a whirlwind and super fun to meet the team behind the Codex app. And I was able to chat with developers to learn about their own workflows. Read: 3 Things I Learned from the GPT-5.5 Launch Party I met Ray Fernando, Sam Altman, and many other great people at OpenAI and beyond. I was inspired by some of the discussions to start work on my Codex Librarian research tools and skills. This builds upon my DocSetQuery GitHub project....