I'm not a programmer by profession, but I can code at a decent level.
Yesterday, with the help of Codex, I built one of the most useful apps I've ever made for myself, without writing a single line of code. It's a terminal-based habit tracker.
I built it because I couldn't find anything that worked the way I wanted. Over the years, I've tried countless apps and services, but none of them met my needs.
If I had built it myself from scratch, it would've taken me at least a week of focused work, just to get the core functionality working!
But since yesterday, I've spent my time testing, adding features, refining the UX, and iterating on the app, all without touching the code. So far, I've already made 10 commits. That's remarkable.
The habit tracker now lives on my NAS and works exactly the way I want it to. It might never leave there. I really don't know and don't care.
I've pushed it to GitHub too, but the repository is private. Maybe it'll stay that way. Maybe I'll make it public one day. Either way, I'll keep tweaking it to fit my own needs, and I'm super stoked that I now have the app I always wanted but nobody had made.
I know I've expressed this many times in this short text, but that's, indeed, remarkable!











