28 Insane Things GPT-6 Astra + Codex Can Do (2 Hour Course)

Riley Brown · · 1 hr 55 min

Riley Brown walks through 28 things OpenAI's Codex and GPT-6 Astra can do, covering app building, 3D design, and business automation for founders and entrepreneurs.

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The gist

  1. Codex can build production-ready web, desktop, and iOS apps by connecting to GitHub, Vercel, and Convex, replacing manual coding with conversation.
    Codex Convex
  2. Scheduled automations pull from connected tools and update live dashboards hands-free, for example refreshing brand deals at 9am, 2pm, and 7pm daily.
    Notion Slack

What they recommend · 16 picks

Codex Main topic · strong yes

OpenAI's AI system that translates natural language to code.

"If I could only use one AI tool, and I had to throw out all of the rest, I would choose Codex. Not only can Codex do any coding task, it can also do any general work task as well. I've been using Codex for the past 6 months straight to run my startup and to..."
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What Riley uses it for: Running a startup, building apps, managing email, scheduling tasks, browser control, content creation, and team coordination

97 creators recommend Codex, including Naval Ravikant, Tom Bilyeu, Y Combinator.

Software & apps

6 picks · Riley Brown ·Riley's software & apps →

0:21
Blender

"Blender is just a free app that we're running on our computer and Codex can control it. You can create full 3D models in Blender. If you ever create a 3D graphic or a 3D render ..."

8 creators recommend it
42:56
Vercel

"I've just always used Vercel because AI is really good at using Vercel. This is how I've hosted my website, agentnative.inc. I asked Codex to create this."

12 creators recommend it
1:27:00
Scrape Creators

"This is the most powerful external API that I have, even more than Scrape Creators. I've done this with Scrape Creators. What this skill does is it can scrape from any social me..."

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AI tools

5 picks · Riley Brown ·Riley's AI tools →

2:35
ChatGPT GPT-6

"If you want to do longer projects and you want to have a lot of use of GPT-6, I highly recommend at least for one month getting the $100 per month plan, this Pro plan right here..."

159 creators recommend it
1:00:46
Paper

"This is Paper and Paper is a lot like Figma. And so I can create a new board. Codex is connected to Paper and it's automatically going to create designs on this Paper. This is k..."

3 creators recommend it
1:30:14
Gemini Gemini 3.8 Flash

"Google actually has a native video uploading skill, meaning you can upload it like an image. It's really fast to analyze it. Gemini analyzed the full 53-second video. You can ve..."

73 creators recommend it

Productivity

4 picks · Riley Brown ·Riley's productivity →

1:36:24
Mermaid

"It can use something called Mermaid diagrams and it can create diagrams directly in the chat here, right in line. I absolutely love this format. I want you to please turn this i..."

16:28
Notion

"Codex can connect to Notion, as you can see here. I can now use Notion within the Codex browser, and I can just use Notion, and I can add things to it by talking to Codex."

38 creators recommend it
20:20
Raycast

"I want this to be like Raycast, right? Raycast is another app that I use that pops up just like it. And since I knew what Raycast was, so does AI. It's like, 'Hey buddy, make it..."

3 creators recommend it

Also mentioned

5:12 Cursor · "If we were to go to a tool like Cursor, which is a different super app platform, you can use GPT-6 Astra...."
18:49 Excalidraw · "I can very easily just copy it and we can paste it straight to our Excalidraw diagram."
20:06 Canva · "I don't want to have to go to Google images on Chrome, scroll through all of them, copy them to my..."
21:46 Uber · "Please make an app that looks like Uber. Exactly like Uber. A mockup app."
31:57 Chrome · "If you have Chrome, like if you use Chrome a lot, you can import them by coming here and you can click..."
34:37 Claude · "We can see that it compared Grockbot, GPT Work, Muse, and Claude Co-work."
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