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Ship a Windows desktop app from issue to store with the Copilot app

A developer built an Azure VM manager while testing GitHub’s Copilot app, which works from issue to merged PR, and published it free on the Microsoft Store.

By @ppiova on X · Posted · Added Oct 16, 2026

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What they did

He wrote issues and let the Copilot app do the work through to merged PRs.

How it went

Cloud VM Manager is live on the Microsoft Store, open source under MIT.

Worth knowing

Review each PR.

Builder recipe

Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.

Stack

  • GitHub Copilot app

Steps

  1. Open the repo in your coding agent and describe the goal and constraints.
  2. Ask for a plan first, then let it implement in small, reviewable steps.
  3. Run the tests or the app after each step and feed errors back.
  4. Review the diff before merging.

Starter prompt

Issue: add a bulk “stop all VMs tagged dev” action with a confirmation dialog.

Tags

Agent Copilot
Tool GitHub
Industry Software Cloud

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