Vibe Coding with Codex - Complete Guide Build a Web App, Desktop App & iOS App with Codex + GPT‑5.5 (No Coding Needed, Beginner Friendly) In this video you will learn: - Vibe Coding Basics + Vocab - How to build a web app using Codex - Add db, auth + storage with @Firebase - Github Basics - Add AI Features (API's) - Deploy to internet (@vercel) - Convert Web App into Desktop app & iOS App Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:12 Setting up Codex 01:57 The basics of Vibe Coding and Codex 02:20 Projects, Files, App 03:45 Example App - Microsoft Paint 04:25 Running app locally 06:39 Save My Code - Use Github 10:37 Quick Review before building app 12:24 Building a web app - The Prompt 15:32 Creating Web App Project 16:34 Explaining Firebase (Database, Storage, Auth) 18:42 Setting up Firebase Project 22:54 Prompting Codex to build our app 24:49 Inspect Element - Console 26:24 Verify Data being Stored in Database 27:51 Making Changes to App 31:29 Fixing Storage Permissions with Codex 32:20 GPT API - Adding AI to our app 36:20 Making more changes using screenshots 39:02 Queuing vs Steering 40:23 Deploying our app to Vercel (App on Internet) 43:09 Convert web app to desktop app and iOS app 47:15 Web App and Desktop App work Now 48:36 Now let's run the iOS app 50:27 All three apps work! 51:11 Making Changes to iOS app 52:51 Testing agent skill feature of our app 53:55 Summary of what we did
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As a beginner, I found the video very informative, and now I know how to proceed. Great job. Thank you.
In the words of the late great Charlie Munger, “It is your duty to eradicate your ignorance.” Your hard work past few months is much appreciated Riley!
Holy **** bro. Been coding for years now. And I've been getting a taste of all this stuff... but this video. ALL your videos. My world is exploding. I'm just a self-taught coder who teaches students in high school some really cool stuff. This is going to make my elective classes that have never existed before seem FULLY polished. Thank you so much. Been using chat gpt for AWHILE now.
Thanks for doing a real video for beginners
I’ll keep coming back to see this Thanks to the person who liked it at 12:24
this is beyond krazy. thank you Riley !!!!! the most detailed guide i've seen. thank you .
Big thank you for this walkthrough, Riley! I figured everything you said was how things worked, but it was all assumption and feeling of being unsure is what was holding me back. The simple explanation was perfect, as were the three examples. 🙌🏽
What about google studio. It’s able to create apps with prompts as well
Use Claude Code and Codex in iMessage from iMessage. My team and I have been building a new iMessage agent. basically a mobile first way to run AI agents straight from iMessage. Would love for you to check it out: chorus.com
Im working with you the same time watching the video, first thing i wanna highlight to the guys that came here and knows nothing about this haha when u run the first command of ` I Want to create a microsoft app ....` once u run the app you will have a fun message with three options just click yes because `What Codex is trying to do there is very normal. That command simply checks and lists the files inside your project folder so it can understand the project structure before generating code.` it dident show up on him in this video because that wasnt his first time . Have a good day
Amazing and very useful video. Big thanks 🙌
This video is actually really amazing, this is all someone needs to start building apps. This is actually insane if you think about it! A whole generation or new wave of vibe coders could be built just from getting started watching this video alone. I love how you showed how to not just make a mobile app and thats it. You also showed the mac desktop app and web app, freaking sick dude! Love it!
You should consider becoming a teacher or a professor.
Why fire base over supabase?
mATe, why not start a skool community with a dedicated support and other things??
Codex is very slow. Became unusable due to the very slow response times.
If you want to add an agent like Claude Code to iMessage: / It will feel like a more reliable OpenClaw and you can add it to Group Chats, you can try it for free. This is what we've been working on for the past 2 months let me know what you think.
Looks like a mess though. Hardly impressive for what it costs tbh and was able to do this last year
Best vibe coding tutorial for beginners I have found.
I really appreciate the level at which you explained everything.. very easy to understand for a beginner.