--- title: OpenAI Build Week: live sessions, community events, and... description: OpenAI Build Week launched July 13 with a week-long series of live sessions, community events, and a project challenge open to developers globally. Two... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-build-week-live-sessions-community-events-and-the-project-challenge-wxtkp4hhd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenAI Build Week: live sessions, community events, and the project challenge | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI Build Week launched July 13 with a week-long series of live sessions, community events, and a project challenge open to developers globally. Two... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-build-week-live-sessions-community-events-and-the-project-challenge-wxtkp4hhd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wXtKp4HhD.png og:image:alt: OpenAI Build Week: live sessions, community events, and the project challenge og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenAI Build Week: live sessions, community events, and the project challenge **[Collections](https://daily.dev/sources/collections)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI Build Week launched July 13 with a week-long series of live sessions, community events, and a project challenge open to developers globally. Two livestreams covered a hackathon overview featuring Codex and GPT-5.6 in action, plus a walkthrough on going from idea to working build using Codex. Developers can register and submit finished projects to the Build Week Challenge. ## Content ## What is Build Week? OpenAI Build Week is a community hackathon that kicked off July 13. Throughout the week, participants can join live sessions, take part in community events around the world, and submit projects to the Build Week Challenge. Registration is open, and the pitch is simple: pull that idea from your backlog and build it with Codex. ## Livestreams Two livestreams are anchoring the week. The first, on July 13 at 10am PT, covers the hackathon overview and shows Codex and GPT-5.6 in action to help you decide what to build. The second features developer Peter Steinberger ([@steipete](https://twitter.com/steipete)) walking through how to take an idea from zero to a working build using Codex. ## Building with Codex and GPT-5.6 One developer shared that they built a complete macOS app and its website from scratch using GPT-5.6 inside Codex — covering architecture, native UI, hardware-data parsing, debugging, packaging, and deployment. What stood out wasn't just that it could write code, but that it preserved the product intent across the whole project rather than just solving isolated tasks one at a time. ## A practical workflow for building websites with Codex If you're planning to build a website this week, here's a workflow that's been getting good results: 1. **Set up an `agents.md` file** for persistent context so Codex remembers your project's conventions across sessions. 2. **Use a `design.md` file** to define brand identity — color palette, typography, tone. Libraries like Aurabuild have pre-made versions you can adapt. 3. **Apply the GPT "taste" design skill** to avoid the generic AI aesthetic that plagues a lot of AI-generated sites. 4. **Generate custom illustrations** with GPT image tools rather than using stock assets. 5. **Pull in third-party UI components** from sources like 21.dev to replace placeholder layouts with polished ones. 6. **Run browser verification steps** to catch layout issues before they compound. 7. **Deploy directly from Codex** using the built-in site skill. The general principle: treat Codex as a collaborator that needs context, not just a code generator that takes one-off prompts. ## One known pain point At least one developer has run into a sign-in issue worth flagging: after a password and passkey are accepted, Codex still prompts for verification through an old, deactivated phone number — even when a current number is already configured for MFA. 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