First personal dinner-planning app
A non-programmer used Codex to build a local web app that suggests dinners from pantry, garden, dietary rules, appliances and weather.
Built a working What's for Dinner app with pantry, garden, recipe and restaurant pages plus a suggestions engine, in under a week.
Overview
How it was set up
Codex working in a local project folder. ChatGPT drafted the starting prompt. Stack: Python, FastAPI, SQLite, uvicorn, Jinja2. Runs in a browser on the author's Mac.
Worth knowing
Personal use only, runs on one laptop. The author had to approve Codex's terminal and file operations on macOS.
A prompt to start from
You are a careful senior engineer building for a non-coder. Project: [app name], a local macOS app, no cloud. Use [backend], SQLite, and simple HTML. Build in small milestones, and after each say how to run it. Milestone 1: CRUD screens for [list of data types]. Write a README with run steps.
Written by Agentic Feats from the source. Not the author's exact prompt.
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History
- Added to Agentic Feats
- 2026-10-13
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- Markdown copy
- /c/first-personal-dinner-planning-app-codex.md
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