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Should CEOs Code? I coded an iOS app in 8 weeks to find out

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Two months ago I decided to build our first native iOS app myself. I’ve been coding on the side for ~15 years, but had never touched Swift or SwiftUI. Still, I went from empty repo to App Store approval in exactly 60 days, working on it only on the side. The app itself is a global PM2.5 map with detail views, charts, and integration with our open-source sensors -straightforward, but fully native with Swift and now live on both iOS and Android (native Kotlin version).

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.airgradient.com/blog/8-weeks-to-release/
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this is awesome, completely agree.

I just started working with agents that have full control over my 3d printer (btw… time to find that fire extinguisher). Gave me some absolutely insane ideas I wanna try. Caught a glimpse of how cool self-improving agents are going to be.

One self-improving Claude Opus agent is all it takes to be a CEO now I think

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Very educational, thank you. Are you willing to share the tools you used? Researchable generically of course, but I’d like to start with what you proved could work.

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I started with Claude code and then I think back in November switched primarily to codex. Both using the CLI. Lately have been using the Codex app as well but honestly not too different from the CLI.
Then GitHub desktop for version control and Xcode or Android studio for compiling.