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How I Build REAL Apps with the Codex App and GPT-5.5
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Watch how I build iOS and Mac apps with Codex in 20 minutes. This is my latest Codex GPT-5.5 workflow for shipping real apps. Watch: How I Build REAL Apps with the Codex App and GPT-5.5 GPT-5.5 is really smart, but it still makes mistakes.
If you need an app idea, this video is for you. I'll show you some new tools you can use to find opportunities from competitor apps on the App Store. 5 Links and Resources
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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.
Hey Reader,This week, I started a manager agent before bed, and it worked all night. When I woke up, it had broken a working feature, added weird workarounds for a problem that wasn't real, and dropped the feature. The feature? Distinguishing between a PiP video close vs. pause in my timer app on iPhone. We had a random 250ms delay to differentiate the two, and removing it broke some behavior. Except the delay wasn't necessary, and the feature was fine before the agents touched it. This kept...
Hey Reader,You can now use Super Easy Timer on iPhone. I had my agents use the Mac app as a reference and extracted a shared library of code using the Swift Package Manager (SPM). This is the brains of my timer app, and it's shared across iOS and macOS. The MVP worked last week, but it wasn't reliable until I added AlarmKit. That allows timers to persist even if the app is force-quit or the iPhone is locked (just like Apple's system alarms). That was my biggest blocker, and now that it's in,...
Hey Reader,My Mac app made $7,900+ over 8 years as a paid app. It made $0 in the three months I gave it away for free. Learn why I made it free, what happened, and what I'm charging next. Read the entire article here. I overhauled the UI this year, localized the App Store Page to 46 languages, and then Apple began featuring it on the front page. Super Easy Timer on the front page (Best New Apps and Updates) Did you know? You can nominate your app to Apple for feature consideration. The Free...